City Street Lights Maintenance Issues and Optimization Measures

The city street light construction project is an important project, which is carried out to improve city environment and people's quality of life. In the process of street light construction, various problems often occur, such as repeated construction, insufficient management and maintenance of street light systems, etc., which will shorten the service life of the lights and have a serious impact on people's lives. The more urbanized, the higher requirements for city smart management. It is necessary to formulate a responsibility management mechanism to strengthen the maintenance of street lights, so that the city street light system can be managed and protected accordingly and the taste of the city is continuously improved.

Part 1 Problems in the maintenance and management of city street lights

Although the construction of street lighting has increased, the complexity of the management is getting higher and higher, the workload is increasing, and the problems that have arisen are gradually increasing. In the process of street lighting facilities management, the most acute problem is the management of city street lights.

Lack of perfect management mechanism

So far, there is a lack of effective communication between the company responsible for city street light construction and the management and maintenance department, and the sharing of information resources between the two has not yet been achieved. The construction company of city street lights is generally selected by project bidding and they mainly pursues economic benefits and ignores the social benefits. Beside, there are quality problems of street light construction. The requirements for street light construction are relatively low as the energy saving and service life of street lights are not considered. The form of street lights is old and cannot play the role of beautifying the city environment. In addition, due to the imperfect management mechanism, the subsequent maintenance management lacks corresponding operating standards and norms, causing low work efficiency. 

There is contradiction between the installation of street lighting and other facilities

During the construction of city roads, there are many embedded pipelines, such as strong electricity, water supply, gas, communications, etc., which are all under different system departments. Sometimes they can’t communicate and coordinate in time. There is often nowhere to bury the pipeline, nowhere to build the foundation and the grounding pile cannot reach the specified depth, which has a serious impact on the quality and safety of the street light project.

Insufficient financial investment

In current situation, the financial investment in the management of street light in many cities is insufficient, which has led to the ineffective implementation of street light management. The management and maintenance of street light is an important part of municipal work and requires sufficient investment, such as labor costs, material costs during maintenance and construction and mechanical costs. However, due to insufficient financial investment, the construction and management of city street lighting facilities are affected and cannot be implemented smoothly.

Street light supervision method is backward

The construction speed and scale of city street lights are constantly expanding, and higher requirements are put forward for the supervision of street lights. However, at this stage, the supervision of city street lights is mainly based on manual patrols. The related supervision methods are still relatively backward. The construction of city street lights is completed, but the management of equipment is not in place. Some criminals use regulatory loopholes to steal wires, which causes the city street lights unable to be used normally and also caused a certain degree of economic loss.

Part 2 Measures to improve the maintenance and management of city street lights

Strengthen the planning and design of street light maintenance and management system

In the process of rapid city economic development, the coverage of city street lights is becoming wider and wider, and there are more and more maintenance tasks for city street lights. In such situation, it is necessary to actively strengthen the improvement of the maintenance system of street lights, so that the maintenance and management of street lights can be effectively implemented. Once any accidents are found, they must be dealt with in time to prevent street light system failures from causing more serious loss.

Pay attention to the functionality of road lighting

With the rapid development of cities, our requirements for street lights are no longer single night lighting. More requirements such as beautification functions have been mentioned one by one. To achieve this, a unified plan for operating and maintaining city street lights is required. First of all, the requirements for the brightness and light color of street lights should be more stringent than before. Secondly, the current street lights also require a certain degree of artistry, which can beautify the city and bring a certain sense of comfort to the people in the city. It is more important to pay attention to the design of street lighting.

Improve the management system of street lighting facilities

To manage city street lighting facilities, it is necessary to plan and improve the management system, formulate standardized and unified standards, so that relevant departments and construction company can manage and maintain street lights, realize centralized management, and the various problem can be solved in time. This can also effectively prevent the emergence of various problems, improve the performance of street lighting facilities, and extend their service life.

Strengthen the supervision of city street lights

In order to achieve effective supervision, street light management agencies need to strengthen their publicity, and promote the concept of street light protection through knowledge lectures, newspapers and networks, etc., to increase the protection awareness of people, and report theft in time. 

Management agencies should also strengthen inspection works. On one hand, organize specialized technical personnel to regularly inspect the performance of street lights, check the issue, and take corresponding repair measures to ensure that city street lights can be used normally; on the other hand, conduct night inspection work, this can help reduce criminals on stealing cables. 

Last words

As a basic component of city development, street lights are closely related to people’s daily life. Strengthening street light management and improving the efficiency of street light maintenance is an important work in current city development. It is necessary for the city management department to combine its own reality and take corresponding countermeasures to achieve the efficient management of street lights, reduce unnecessary troubles, and provide basic guarantee for people's lives and work.