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Smart Street Light Facilitates The Deployment Of 5G Base Stations

2022-05-13

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Smart street light, which already have multiple functions, can monitor traffic and public safety and display public information.And now it has another role to play in the development of smart city: 5G base station equipment can be installed on lamp posts.

Barcelona, a typical smart city in Europe, has been moving in this direction since 2008.The advent of the Internet of Things era has also seen the implementation of smart city initiatives in many Asian cities, including U-City in South Korea, I-Japan in Japan, MSC (Multimedia Super Corridor) in Malaysia, Smart Nation in Singapore, and Smart Taiwan in Taiwan.

In China's “12th Five-Year Plan” (2011-2015), cities were encouraged to set up smart management systems, while the “13th Five-Year Plan” promised to promote the healthy development of smart cities.

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Smart street light,the platform for 5G connectivity

Fast 5G data transmission can be achieved using high-frequency millimeter-wave, but the transmission distance is limited.Therefore, it is necessary to build a high density base station to achieve adequate coverage.At this time, LED smart street lights, essential lamps in smart cities, have attracted people's attention.They are evenly distributed throughout major cities in high density and are suitable for deploying 5G and Internet of Things networks.

Street lights are deployed 20-30 meters apart, while 5G base stations are 100-200 meters apart, meaning there is a lot of flexibility in installing 5G base station equipment on lamp posts.Equally important, street lights are owned by local governments, making it easier for 5G telecom operators to negotiate such installations.

Solutions for costly 5G smart city

In fact, it is also possible to use 4G LTE technology equipped with NB-iot network for environmental and traffic monitoring, safety monitoring and public information release through smart LED street lights, while the advantage of using 5G network is faster image transmission.

The development of smart city may not necessarily depend on 5G.However, 5G will replace 4G sooner or later, so governments that want to achieve smart city need to find a way to achieve their goals based on 5G technology.Deploying smart street light based on 5G connections via PPP (public-private partnership) or PFI (Private Finance Initiative) may be economically feasible.But in either case, the private partner should be a large, financially sound business that can make an initial one-off investment return from a source of revenue that can last a long time.

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