Small Cities Are Particularly in Need Of Building Smart Cities
Sep 16, 2025
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Phoebus intelligent street lamp post is more than a simple upgrade of traditional street lights; it's a core node in urban infrastructure that integrates multiple intelligent modules. Based on a lamppost, it integrates LED lighting, a 5G micro base station, video surveillance, environmental monitoring, emergency broadcasting, charging stations, and information display screens, enabling a "multi-purpose" solution.

Currently, the investment required for smart city development in small cities is significant. Intelligent street lamp posts are not only found in developed coastal areas; they are already being deployed in small cities across our region. They promote urban governance and optimization, driving local economic development through industrial upgrades. This presents an opportune time for small cities to achieve a leapfrog development. From another perspective, to facilitate inter-city coordination, unified management, and avoid duplication of urban construction, there's a growing trend toward extending the City Brain platform from prefecture-level cities to their subordinate districts and counties. At the same time, for major intelligent street lamp post factories, creating high-standard, high-quality benchmark projects for smart city development is crucial. This not only accelerates construction in surrounding areas, thereby creating more business opportunities, but also fosters regional synergy and encourages multi-stakeholder participation in building the smart city ecosystem.
In the construction of new smart cities, by widely applying new-generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things, sensing technologies, artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing, existing hardware infrastructure is upgraded, thereby promoting the intelligent upgrade of strategic urban infrastructure. For example, smart light poles, the optimal carrier of infrastructure, are designed to sense and collect urban information for the Smart City Brain.
To strengthen the economic foundation of small cities, we must accelerate the construction of new infrastructure covering these cities, promoting the widespread use of information and communication technologies and facilities to "teach people how to fish." To drive healthy economic growth in small cities, it's crucial to fully integrate the development of new smart cities with their own unique business characteristics. By actively leveraging information networks to connect with broader external markets and using next-generation information technology, we can reduce manufacturing costs, improve product supply, and thus optimize the industrial structure.
It's worth noting that, regardless of the type of smart city, smart lampposts are an essential component of new infrastructure. Furthermore, building a smart city requires a unified, interoperable city brain system platform that enables uninterrupted collaboration and allows all city operations to operate together. A logical system for data collection, analysis, and utilization is also necessary. Only data with business logic is valuable and is the foundation and focus of modern urban governance.
Phoebus intelligent street lamp post leverages IoT technology to upload real-time data to the city management platform, enabling remote control of lighting brightness, monitoring of equipment status, and early warning of environmental anomalies, reducing city operating costs and improving management efficiency.
