What's Smart City Lighting?

As a new form of urban development in the future, the main purpose of smart cities is to improve the quality of life of urban residents. Infrastructure and services play a pivotal role in promoting the construction of smart cities. While city street lighting is an important part of the carrier and infrastructure of urban public services. The combination of it with smart cities has produced a new lighting concept: smart city lighting. So, what can it do?

Communication business

As a communication connection point, smart street light poles can be extended wirelessly or wiredly to provide a variety of business services, including wireless base stations, Internet of Things, edge computing, public WIFI, and optical transmission. In addition, smart light poles cover a wide area and are close to the connected objects, and are suitable for carrying the Internet system through various connection methods, which will be able to receive, integrate and transmit information from all areas of the city anytime, anywhere, and improve the city′s intelligence level and management efficiency.

Public safety

Smart light poles are widely distributed in urban roads, streets and parks, and have good penetration into densely populated areas. By deploying cameras and emergency help buttons on the poles, and networking with remote monitoring systems, these street lights become an indispensable in urban security scenarios. Through the deployment of cameras, cars and people can be monitored, dangerous factors can be identified through face recognition/license plate recognition/behavior recognition; through the deployment of one-key alarms, people can quickly get in touch with management personnel in emergency situations and ask for management. The personnel provide specific location information and use the camera to remotely quickly judge the situation on the spot, saving time for handling various emergency situations.

Smart lighting

With the vigorous development of the Internet of Things technology and LED technology, the combination of the Internet of Things + LED, and the intelligent transformation of municipal lighting has entered the fast lane. Smart lighting connects each lamp to the Internet through information sensing equipment to achieve on-demand lighting and refined management of batch lamps, so as to achieve the purpose of energy saving, emission reduction, efficient operation and maintenance. Through single lamp controller, centralized controller, illuminance sensor, multi-function electric meter, etc. the smart light system can realize functions of real-time/grouped turn-on, turn-off, and dimming operations of street lights; loop opening and closing operations; remote monitoring of operating status, operation parameters and operation abnormalities, etc.

Environmental monitoring

The meteorological environment monitoring points based on smart light poles have the characteristics of large-scale densely distributed coverage. The collected data is analyzed by big data through the cloud platform, which can be combined with local and remote push services of environmental data to provide environmental information such as air quality, temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, noise, electromagnetic radiation, and light intensity. Combined with a video surveillance system, the poles can also provide comprehensive environmental services that are convenient for the people; it can also be combined with LED screens to release information in real time. On this way, it can realize the intelligent monitoring of urban environment and weather, pre-warning, and provide data reference for environmental protection departments to improve the urban environment.

Smart transportation

Street light poles are more conducive to the collection and management of road and vehicle information due to the advantages of multiple locations and short distances. By mounting a high-position camera, it can meet the identification of various violations and illegal behaviors such as speeding and parking by the transportation department. In addition, it can also be combined with license plate recognition to complete the construction of intelligent road parking lot scenes. On the other hand, the traffic flow detectors can collect and transmit traffic information in real time, such as traffic flow, average lane speed, lane congestion, etc. Smart light poles can also improve the level of road intelligence, such as road water accumulation and fault information can be monitored, to achieve better vehicle-road coordination.

Information release

Being close to the flow of people, forming films, and connecting, smart street lights have the effects of wide spread, high effect and high impact when information is released through the mounted equipment. When emergencies such as fires, earthquakes, etc. occur, emergency broadcasts and warning lights can be used to notify people of safe evacuation through the multimedia information release system; at the same time, the LED screen can also be used to release government information, traffic information and commercial advertisements. The smart light pole of the interactive terminal can also achieve interactive communication between humans and machines through sensors.

Energy business

The energy based on smart street light poles can not only meet the normal operation of multi-function light poles and its own device functions, but also provide a variety of external power supply services. The services that can be provided include charging piles, USB interface charging, signal lights etc. Users can also make various business appointments and views through the mobile APP. When conditions permit, smart light poles can be equipped with solar panels or wind power equipment to realize urban green energy.