Smart urban furniture for UK streets

Street furniture that runs on daylight.

Glyt designs solar-powered benches, planters and shelters for high streets, parks and campuses. They light the pavement after dark, charge phones by day and report air quality and footfall, with no cable to the grid.

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A Glyt Kerb solar bench lit warm at blue hour on an English market-town high street, with a woman charging her phone on the armrest
Glyt Kerb at blue hour · product visualisation
Off-gridno cable, no DNO 120 Wpsolar canopy 1.2 kWhLiFePO₄ battery 2700 Kzero upward light IK10 · IP66vandal-rated BS 8300inclusive seating 0cameras

A day on the street

Watch a Glyt Kerb work through today.

Drag the timeline or press play. The sun follows its real path over Mildenhall today: the canopy charges by day, the light comes on at dusk and dims after midnight.

Glyt Kerb · live sun model 52.34°N 0.51°E · Mildenhall, Suffolk
--:-- UK time
Solar in 0W 120 Wp canopy
Battery 0% 1.2 kWh LiFePO₄
Bench light Off 2700 K, zero upward light
Phones charging 0 2 × USB-C, 1 × Qi2
Passers-by 0/15 min Radar count, no cameras
PM2.5 0µg/m³ DAQI 1 · Low

The sun's position is calculated for Mildenhall on today's date. Sensor, energy and footfall values are modelled to show how a Glyt Kerb behaves through a day.

Meet Kerb

Everything a street needs, in the footprint of a bench.

Glyt Kerb puts solar power, storage, lighting, charging and environmental sensing into a 1.8 m bench. It bolts onto existing paving and never needs a connection to the grid.

Glyt Kerb solar bench with ash timber slats, moss-green frame, sensor mast and solar canopy

Select a letter to see what each part does. Switch to the GA drawing for dimensions and frame colours.

Part A

Solar canopy

120 Wp monocrystalline panel that shades the seat in summer and keeps rain off in winter.
Part B

Sensor head

PM2.5, PM10, NO₂, temperature, humidity, noise level and radar presence. No cameras and no audio recording.
Part C

Dusk light

2700 K warm LED under the seat and along the mast, with zero upward light to protect dark skies. Dims to 30% after midnight and brightens as people approach.
Part D

Charging

Two 60 W USB-C ports and a Qi2 wireless pad in the centre armrest.
Part E

Battery

1.2 kWh LiFePO₄ pack sealed in the plinth. Lights and sensors keep running for more than a week with no sun.
Part F

Seat

Thermally modified ash slats on a recycled aluminium frame. 460 mm seat and armrests on every seat, following BS 8300 inclusive design guidance.

Prototype specification. Final figures are confirmed for each site.

In the details

Designed around how people actually use a street.

Phone charging on the wireless pad in the bench armrest, beside two USB-C ports
Charge while you waitA Qi2 pad and two 60 W USB-C ports sit in the centre armrest, within reach of every seat.
Close-up of the white sensor pod and solar canopy at the top of the bench mast
Sense without watchingA sealed pod measures air quality, noise and how many people pass. There are no cameras.
Warm light from under the bench seat pooling on wet paving at night
Light where it's neededWarm 2700 K light falls on the pavement and nowhere else, so the night sky stays dark.

The range

Three pieces of street, one platform underneath.

Every Glyt piece shares the same power, sensing and data core, so a bench, a planter and a shelter can report into the same dashboard.

Two people on a Glyt Kerb bench on a sunny high street, one charging a phone

Solar benchKerb

Prototype

The flagship. Seats three with armrests, lights the pavement, charges phones and senses the street around it.

  • Lengths1.8 m · 2.4 m
  • Canopy120–160 Wp
  • InstallSurface-fixed
Glyt Verge planter bench with grasses and a birch tree in a sunny town square

Planter benchVerge

In development

Seating wrapped around a raised bed. A rainwater reservoir and soil-moisture probes tell grounds teams which beds need water.

  • Reservoir200 L
  • Planting1.6 m²
  • InstallSurface-fixed
Glyt Halt solar bus shelter at dusk with an e-paper timetable and people waiting

Bus shelterHalt

Concept

A solar roof, an e-paper timetable that stays readable in full sun, warm light at night and USB-C at the leaning rail.

  • Roof400 Wp
  • Display32″ e-paper
  • InstallShallow pad

For councils, BIDs and estates

Built for the people who look after streets.

Glyt is designed with highways, parks and town-centre teams in mind: quick to install, hard to break and useful from the first day.

  • No trenching. No grid connection.

    Each unit makes and stores its own power, so there's no application to your DNO, no cable run and no electricity bill. It bolts onto existing paving.

  • Made for Saturday night.

    IK10 impact-rated housings, IP66-sealed electronics, anti-graffiti powder coat and tamper-proof fixings.

  • Counts people, never records them.

    Radar presence sensing measures how many people pass and how long they stay. No cameras, no audio and no personal data. Data is hosted in the UK under UK GDPR.

  • Data your team can use.

    Footfall, dwell time and indicative air quality through a dashboard, CSV export or open API, ready to sit alongside your LAQM monitoring and town-centre reports.

Pilot dashboard Illustrative data
Passers-by this week29,6704 benches
Busiest daySaturday6,140 people
PM2.5 weekly mean7.4 µg/m³DAQI 1 · Low
Daily passers-by, all unitsMon–Sun
  • Kerb 01Market Place91%Normal
  • Kerb 02Bus interchange78%Normal
  • Kerb 03Library steps64%Slat check due
  • Kerb 04Riverside path–Offline 40 min

Example of the view a pilot partner gets. Figures are illustrative.

From survey to switch-on

How a Glyt pilot runs.

Two installers fixing a Glyt Kerb bench onto existing paving on a high street
Fitted on existing paving. No trenching and no grid connection.
  1. 1

    Site survey

    We visit each proposed spot, check shading from buildings and trees, and model a full year of sun before anything is made.

  2. 2

    Pilot

    A small run of units goes in on existing paving. Your team has the dashboard from the first day.

  3. 3

    Review

    After a season we go through footfall, air quality, energy and maintenance with you, and you decide what stays.

  4. 4

    Roll-out

    Units are made to order in your RAL finish and fitted without trenching or a grid connection.

Arrange a pilot

Put a Glyt on your street.

Tell us where. We'll model a year of sun at that exact spot and come back with a layout and a pilot plan.

  • For councils, Business Improvement Districts, developers, landlords and campus estates teams.
  • Finished in the RAL colour that matches your street.
  • Glyt Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company no. 16358483.

Prefer email? hello@glyt.ltd