ORing Industrial Networking, a leader in industrial IoT and smart city innovation, announced that its smart city management platform xAICity has officially passed certification by the international TALQ Consortium. This certification not only validates ORing’s technical strength on the global stage, but also lays a solid foundation for bringing Taiwan’s smart city solutions to international markets.

TALQ Certification: A Universal Language for Smart Lighting and City Management

The TALQ Consortium is an international standards organization dedicated to defining open and interoperable interfaces for smart city management. The TALQ v2 standard specifies API definitions and data models covering smart lighting, parking, energy monitoring, sensor data, and more. It serves as a critical global benchmark for interoperability in city-scale smart lighting platforms.

TALQ certification affirms that a platform can seamlessly interoperate with lighting devices and controllers from different brands. Cities can integrate diverse systems without replacing existing hardware, enabling cross-brand and cross-district centralized management and data sharing. This helps accelerate digitalization in energy management and carbon accounting. For government agencies building future-ready smart city systems, TALQ certification is a key measure of system reliability and long-term viability.

xAICity: A Scalable, AI-Driven Smart City Platform

Built around the TALQ v2 standard, xAICity is ORing’s comprehensive smart city management platform. It integrates AI models and time-series analytics to create an end-to-end management framework from edge devices to the cloud CMS. Its modular architecture includes:

• xAICity Core CMS: TALQ API integration, access control, and event dispatch
  • xAICity AI Engine: AI predictive maintenance and energy optimization
  • xAICity Edge Gateway: Edge computing and real-time analytics
  • xAICity Dashboard: Visual monitoring and energy analysis
  • xAICity ChatOps: Natural-language queries converted into TALQ commands

xAICity predicts asset health (DHI), automates work orders, supports smart dimming, and optimizes energy scheduling. On average, the platform reduces maintenance time by 25% and achieves 5-8% energy savings.

With TALQ certification, xAICity supports multi-brand and multi-protocol integration. Whether a city uses lighting systems from Philips, Lite-On, Delta, or other vendors, the platform’s TALQ Gateway converts them into a unified control interface, allowing administrators to monitor and manage all city assets in one place.

Standardized APIs and data models further enhance portability and scalability. Beyond lighting, xAICity can expand to parking, energy management, and environmental sensing, forming an open smart city ecosystem built on TALQ, OCPP, oneM2M, and other global protocols. As a TALQ Certified CMS, xAICity underscores ORing’s technical leadership and strengthens its position in Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific region, supporting global smart city development and sustainability initiatives.

Proven Capabilities Across Taiwan’s Key Smart Lighting Demonstration Zones

ORing has already deployed operational smart lighting systems in three major demonstration zones: Taoyuan City, Nantou’s Zhongxing New Village, and Kaohsiung City.

• Taoyuan operates Taiwan’s largest smart streetlight network with 150 thousand luminaires and will adopt xAICity for cross-brand centralized management.
  • The Zhongxing New Village project will become a prototype site for TALQ-based upgrades.
  • Kaohsiung is set to be the first city to implement a full TALQ-certified system upgrade, using xAICity to establish AI predictive maintenance and standardized lighting management.

Through TALQ-based standardization, ORing aims to achieve “city-level interoperability, regional integration, and global compatibility,” replicating successful models in more cities and application scenarios.

Looking Ahead: Establishing Taiwan’s Smart City Export Standard

“Achieving TALQ certification is a major milestone as ORing advances into international markets,” said Isaac Chang, Manager of the AIoT Business Unit at ORing. “We are not simply delivering a lighting management system. We are building an open and scalable smart city ecosystem. By combining AI technologies with international standards, xAICity gives city administrators smarter, more energy-efficient, and more sustainable solutions. It also accelerates upgrades across smart lighting, transportation, energy, and sensing applications, helping Taiwan’s smart city innovations truly connect with the world.”