Brief Introduction
Street lights are infrastructures that can be seen all over the place in cities; it has an indispensable role in the deduction of urban development and the citizen’s lives. Traditional street lights have much room for improvement, whether in terms of lighting management, monitoring and maintenance or service applications. As network technology and innovative technologies develop, street lights no longer only have the function of lighting; simple equipment control, flexible energy-saving lighting and service integrated applications are all primary goals of their intellectualization.
Description
- Smart street lights have many value-added application services, including street light monitoring, micro base stations, micro weather stations, digital signage, technological law enforcement, traffic analysis, people flow analysis and charging and emergency notification, etc. The descriptions of each service function are as follows:
- Street light monitoring: Equipment management can be performed remotely, and wireless communication technology can be used to obtain real-time information on the operation status of the street lights; when street lights are operating abnormally, the system can detect and report them for repairs in real-time.
- Micro base station: Smart street lights are scattered at every corner of cities, which makes them the best public facility to set up micro base stations. Through the base stations densely distributed on the street lights, they can be used as hotspots for 5G mobile networks or WiFi and provide services to the public.
- Micro weather stations: Through the micro weather station sensors on the smart street lights, the light poles will be able to report the local environmental conditions in real-time, or display them on digital signages as reference for the public.
- Technological law enforcement: Deep learning based on AI imagery allows recognizing and detecting traffic violations, including driving in the opposite direction, roadside parking violations, crossing double yellow lines or double white lines, driving outside the designated lane, turning without signaling, and driving on roads during vehicle control periods, etc.
- Traffic analysis: Deep learning based on AI imagery allows analysis of traffic on the road, including vehicle type count analysis, traffic direction setting, lane attribute setting and steering attribute setting, etc.
- People flow analysis: People flow count analysis, crowd queuing warning, electronic fence, prohibited area warning and stay time alert, etc.
- Digital signage: Through digital signage, applications such as real-time information pushing, store promotions and advertisements, and entertainment game interactions can be integrated.
- Charging and emergency notification: USB port charging can be provided just like at the charging stations in the metro stations to make the lives of citizens more convenient; people can also use the warning system of smart street lights to seek help during emergencies, which will make citizens feel safer and allow the smart street lights to become powerful backing of smart cities.
Purposes and benefits
In the IoT era, street lights have been improved and upgraded into important carriers equipment with networking and data collection functions; by using the feature of street lights being widely distributed in cities, related applications such as street light monitoring, lighting and energy-saving, environmental detection, transportation and security can be integrated with cloud computing technology, allowing ordinary street lights to become smart, and bring more convenience to people’s lives, and becoming the cornerstones of a smart city for building a basic urban network and big data analysis platform.
Applicable Objects
City roads, industrial parks, newly set rezoned areas, campuses, fishing ports and other outdoor fields that require illumination.
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Success cases
HwaCom is a founding member of the 5G Smart Pole Standard Promotion Alliance, and has participated in the construction of 5G smart pole fields in the Taipei City and New Taipei City governments. Through fixed network and 5G telecom public networks, 5G networking, smart lighting, image transportation detection, charging piles, environmental detection, digital signage and other applications have been verified, aiming at future global 5G smart pole business opportunities.
