Gogoro and Far EasTone Telecom’s Smart Traffic Signal UPS are to be rolled out in Taipei City’s busiest intersections. Nearly 200 of Taipei City’s busiest traffic junctions will receive the smart traffic signal technology designed to go on working even in power outages. The commercial rollout follows a successful pilot programme in 2022.

The Smart Traffic Signal UPS is designed for densely populated cities, like Taipei City, that rely on continuous operation of traffic intersections and want to ensure non-stop operations during severe weather, natural disasters, or power grid outages. The Smart Traffic Signal UPS provides long term supplemental energy using two Gogoro Smart Batteries that can be swapped without disruption to maintain continuous operation as long as necessary. The system is a box-mounted design, which is integrated with the existing traffic signal box. The system has already been deployed to 25 of Taipei City’s busiest intersections and will roll out to nearly 200 intersections by the end of the year.

The commercial launch follows a successful pilot in Taipei City that demonstrated its ability to maintain normal traffic signal operations when experiencing power abnormalities, eliminating the traffic accidents that would have been caused if the signals were inoperable. Following the pilot, the Taipei City government granted the Smart Traffic Signal UPS with the city’s “2022 Smart Taipei Innovation Award.”

“We are seeing growing demand for our smart city energy solutions beyond just battery swapping for vehicles. Customers across the region are looking for time-shifted energy for services like our new Smart Traffic Signal UPS in Taipei City, our Virtual Power Plant with Enel X or a variety of other unique energy needs,” said Horace Luke, founder, and CEO of Gogoro. “We have always believed that time-shifting energy was key to enabling the sustainable transformation, not just for transportation, but across a variety of industries that need to transition from fossil fuels to electric, or for new industries that fossil fuels can’t address. We are utilising the second life of our Smart Batteries, beyond two-wheel vehicles, to address a variety of these smart city energy needs that are generating new revenue streams.”

The Gogoro Network is smart swappable battery refuelling that has more locations across Taiwan’s cities than there are petrol stations. The network continually optimises itself against changing operating demands and conditions. The Gogoro Network supports nearly 550,000 riders and has more than 1.1 million smart batteries in circulation through its network of 12,000 battery swapping stations at over 2,500 locations. To date, the network has achieved over 400,000 daily battery swaps and 470 million total battery swaps. The Gogoro Network battery swapping is credited with saving more than 700,000 tons of CO2 since it launched.