Intelligent Street Light Pole Development Trends

Are intelligent street light poles the future direction of urban lighting? The answer is yes, but large-scale deployment of smart street lights is still some way off due to the challenges of coordinating construction and future street light operation. However, as my country's various systems improve, intelligent street light poles will inevitably replace future urban lighting. Today, the smart street light vendor phoebus will give you a brief introduction.

Next "Blue Ocean" of intelligent street light poles

When the investment in intelligent light poles is high but the returns are low, neither the government nor private capital will invest heavily. Instead, they will only deploy small numbers of intelligent street light poles in specific scenarios, such as along city streets, in smart parks, smart residential communities, and in scenic areas.

The future development of intelligent street light poles will be slow and arduous. Its main driving forces come from three aspects.

The first is the evolution of urban infrastructure. With economic development, urban infrastructure must also be upgraded. Over the next decade, urban infrastructure will gradually be replaced with multifunctional street light poles, but this process is a long one and will not occur suddenly.

The second is the application of 5G millimeter waves. Current 5G network deployments utilize frequency bands below 6GHz, resulting in a low demand for micro base stations on roads. However, when 5G utilizes frequency bands above 24.5GHz, the demand for intelligent street light poles will grow.

Third, there is the demand for connected vehicle infrastructure. The development of intelligent driving has two directions: the intelligentization of vehicles and the connectivity of vehicles. Connected vehicles place high demands on road infrastructure, and intelligent street light poles perfectly meet this need, enabling better vehicle guidance and truly autonomous driving. Leveraging intelligent street light poles to guide vehicles and capitalize on the autonomous driving boom will accelerate the development of intelligent street light poles.

Suggestions for the development of intelligent street light poles

1. Strengthen top-level design and promote coordinated planning

Pre-emptively develop a unified, globally integrated management and operations model, integrate gateway data, effectively break down data barriers, and achieve interconnected urban operational data, truly realizing intelligent and refined urban management. Integrate upstream and downstream companies in the industry chain to build a robust, multifunctional smart streetlight industry ecosystem encompassing equipment manufacturers, system integrators, construction companies, operators, and telecom operators, fostering a clustering effect.

2. Accelerate standard development and implement systematic deployment

Taking into account the development trends of green smart cities and future 5G services, accelerate the issuance of national standards for intelligent light poles, clarify the standardization and unification of key interfaces, and conduct preliminary research to ensure adaptability to future development. Guided by large-scale development, formulate cross-disciplinary, systematic, and targeted standards for design, technology, testing, and acceptance related to smart streetlights. Through standardization, achieve relatively unified solutions, standardized pole structures, modular functions, compatible interfaces, and cost-optimized construction plans, promoting low-cost, high-quality, and large-scale deployment of smart streetlights.

3. Explore business models and reduce operation and maintenance costs

Strengthen innovative exploration of business models, clarify design plans, and establish an investment and operation model with government oversight, collaborative win-win outcomes for all participants, and shared benefits for the general public. Professional entities will coordinate the needs of all parties, achieve large-scale development and professional operation and maintenance, maximize resource and information sharing, reduce resource waste and cost increases caused by blindly combining all functions, reduce overall R&D and operation and maintenance costs, and promote the long-term sustainable development of the intelligent light poles industry.

The above are some of the humble opinions of Phoebus, a smart street light vendor. If you are interested, welcome to communicate with us!