Sylvania got about $100,000 back from its electric utility after Cyvl mapped its street lights.
Road ratings that took staff about three weeks by hand now take about three days.
- $100K
- credit back from the electric utility, using the street light count
- 3 days
- for road ratings that took staff about three weeks by hand
Every year, a couple of Sylvania staff spent weeks in a truck rating pavement by hand. The city had no database of its street lights or signs.
One Cyvl drive produced road ratings plus an inventory of street lights, signs, trees and other assets, each with a photo and location. Work that took about three weeks now takes about three days. Staff use the street photos almost daily and measure road widths in 3D views from the desk. With its own street light count, the city got about $100,000 in credit back from its electric utility, which could not say how many lights the city owned.
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Sources: Sylvania Advantage, City beat (Jan 30, 2026), WTVG 13abc (Dec 8, 2025)
We ended up getting about $100,000 credit back from Toledo Edison because they couldn't tell us how many street lights we owned.