IoT Smart Street Poles Light Up New Urban Life

When it comes to "smart city", most people don't think of street lights, but they are the basis of smart city construction. At present, more and more cities around the world have transformed street lights into IoT data collection points and applied them in many aspects. For example, monitoring and saving lighting energy, finding vacant parking spaces, measuring air quality, and even facial recognition. It can be said that smart street poles have lit up the new life of the city.

1. What is the IoT smart street pole

Smart street lights are also called smart city multi-functional integrated poles. They integrate sensors, video surveillance, RFID, emergency calls, smart lighting, wireless networks, information releases, and charging piles. They can quickly realize the intelligent perception, information transmission, and remote control of street lights, effectively improving the progress of smart city construction. It is the basic project of "smart city" construction in the "new infrastructure". The connection of smart street lights forms an Internet of Things, and through the back-end big data platform, a variety of applications can be realized.

2. Smart street poles: small size, big functions

On the basis of realizing smart lighting, smart lamp poles expand functions such as wireless monitoring, 5G base stations, WIFI coverage, air quality monitoring, and environmental monitoring. They are the in-depth application of "smart city" and "Internet of Things +" in the city, and are also an effective carrier for smart cities to realize the Internet of Things perception platform.

Smart lighting: save energy

When you walk on a quiet and dark street, the lights behind and in front of you are always on. When you approach the street lights, they will light up and gradually reach maximum intensity; at the same time, the lights behind you will also begin to dim slowly until they go out. Even on the same road, the brightness of the street lights will be different in the first half of the night and the second half of the night. In the first half of the night, there are many vehicles and pedestrians on the road, and the street lights are obviously brighter; in the second half of the night, there are fewer vehicles and pedestrians on the road, and the street lights are slightly darker. According to factors such as vehicle flow, pedestrian flow, power supply conditions, weather conditions, etc., the lighting brightness is automatically adjusted without manual control. This is the "smartness" of smart street lights.

Help find parking spaces and solve traffic problems

Finding parking spaces is one of the most annoying problems for urban residents, but smart street lights can detect whether there are free parking spaces through visual sensors and tell drivers this information through applications. Smart street lights can also help parking timers enforce parking management rules. At present, cities in countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States have even incorporated electric vehicle charging systems directly into street lights and used visual sensors to monitor road conditions, such as checking for thin ice.

Weather monitoring

The weather data detected by urban weather stations may be a little different from the actual ones around us. However, by installing temperature, pressure, humidity, air quality, radiation, precipitation, and even wind sensors on street lights, you can get super accurate local weather data. Among them, pollution monitoring will be one of the most promising applications, and many major cities in the world are working hard to deal with this problem.

Emergency charging

Smart street light poles also have smart emergency charging systems. When you are out, electric vehicles will inevitably run out of power, causing inconvenience in travel. At this time, the vehicle can be charged while running, and there will never be mileage anxiety.

Provide data support for smart city construction

The role of smart street lights is not limited to energy saving and remote control. "We can make full use of the Internet of Things technology to install noise detection, car charging, video surveillance, mobile network, and other related equipment on smart light poles to provide greater convenience for urban construction management and citizens' travel." said the R&D staff of Haoyunda Zhichuang Technology.

3. Smart street lights can be expected to "land"

Smart cities cannot be just castles in the air or limited to small-scale test scenarios. Under the obstacles of so many "stumbling blocks", how can smart street lights achieve rapid "landing"?

For the transformation of smart light poles, the problem of the era of infrastructure construction must be solved first. At present, there are many ways to implement smart light pole control solutions, so the choice of communication technology for street lights should take into account issues such as reliable and secure communication, investment cost, operating cost, deployment, and maintenance convenience.

From this point of view, smart light poles need to be matched with 5G technology and a mature commercial operation environment to obtain rich returns. It is worth mentioning that with the active promotion of various parts of the country, many multifunctional integrated smart street light projects and efficient intelligent LED system projects are being implemented one after another.

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