Smart street lights become a breakthrough point for smart cities.
The development trend of LED smart lighting is unstoppable. The development of mobile internet and Internet of Things technology provides a new way of integration for the development of smart lighting. At the same time, the construction of smart city has brought unlimited imagination to the LED lighting industry.
The wave of information has pushed information technology to change the city's construction. Many cities in China have launched “smart city†strategies, such as Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
In the "smart city" boom, smart street lights seem to be a breakthrough in smart cities. Wireless Wi-Fi, charging piles, data monitoring, environmental monitoring, and light pole screens can all be realized by relying on LED street lights and intelligent control platforms. As an important carrier of smart cities, street lamps will no longer be simple lighting tools, and smart street lamps will play a larger "complex" role.
Optimistic about this entrance, not only LED lighting companies, Huawei and ZTE two major communications industry giants also high-profile cuts, the smart street lighting on the smart street lighting, the attention of the giants, the participation of the giants, and undoubtedly increased the intelligent street lights "war "The degree of fiery."
"We are looking at the streetlight poles and developing the city's Internet of Things with the light pole carrier." Li An, director of Huawei's IoT Gateway product, said that the Internet of Things is very broad, and lighting is very suitable as a reason for the Internet of Things. The first is the huge electric energy consumption of street lamps. The traditional street lamps have high energy consumption. The poor management is easy to cause waste. Second, the street lamps are very dense and have a wide geographical range. The “dumb†street lamps are difficult to manage and maintain, and the operation and maintenance management costs are very high. The road is the skeleton of the city, and the light pole occupies the best network carrying position. In the period when there is no Internet of Things, the street light pole can play a great role in alarming, etc. Once connected, the effect can be greater.
The Internet of Things is an important strategic direction of Huawei. Based on its long-term investment and accumulation in the ICT field, Huawei has launched five major IoT solutions. For Huawei's IoT solution, Li An said that the program focuses on the infrastructure of ICT and hopes to connect industry partners through the core of interconnection and form a common development industry chain. In Huawei's architecture, the focus is on access methods and platforms, and the architecture of the Internet of Things is very simple.
In terms of lighting Internet of Things, Huawei released the first multi-level intelligent control lighting Internet of Things solution this year. This solution can integrate urban lighting street lights into the IoT network and visually manage it based on GIS. Managers can clearly understand each one. The status information of the street and each street lamp; by applying a flexible lighting strategy, the switching state and illumination brightness of each street lamp can be precisely controlled to achieve on-demand illumination.
In addition to Huawei, another industry giant ZTE has done a lot of work in lighting in the past 10 years. Wang Dongxu, director of the program of energy products department of ZTE Corporation, said that ZTE has many streetlight projects in foreign countries such as Pakistan, Togo and Nepal. "With the deepening of ZTE's international urban construction and the promotion of China's aid to Africa and the 'One Belt, One Road' related projects, ZTE has made China's products and lighting solutions more global."
ZTE also announced the "BluePillar" smart street lighting solution as an important place for its smart city strategy this year. The program can realize a traditional street light pole, which is not only a 4G/5G base station, but also an electric vehicle charging pile. At the same time, it can collect comprehensive information of weather, environment, traffic, security and other cities. The large-screen outdoor LED screen can also provide convenience information and use. For advertising operations. The street light has become a comprehensive carrier including municipal lighting, urban information and smart city comprehensive information collection and service system, communication base station, electric vehicle charging and so on. Wang Dongxu said that the program is not difficult, but it is very practical and has attracted the attention of many customers. The functions in the solution are modular, and each function and subunit can be flexibly combined.
"Although this idea is very good, it is currently in the pilot phase and there are still unresolved issues," Wang Dongxu said. The first question is who will operate. If different operators operate, they will have different focuses. For example, if they are operated by a communication carrier, some functions related to the municipality may not be adopted in the smart street lamp solution. And if the city construction party comes to operate, there may be no part of the communication that is involved in the plan. "So the complete smart streetlight scheme or the main part of this scheme, who will use it, who will build it, and who will operate it is a huge problem."
Secondly, even if there are operators to build smart street lamps, the scheme involves different fields such as meteorology, transportation, urban construction, and advertising management. These areas are managed by different agencies and departments in China, and between operators and different departments involved. Regarding the communication and coordination of the business, it is also a problem to reach an agreement. Unless the smart street lights get a strong background support, a complete solution can be made, such as the overall plan to build a smart city, and the smart street light as an innovative highlight of the new district, deployed on a road, so feasible, but the old town transformation Or the application of some places in underdeveloped areas will still be a problem.
Wang Dongxu said that ZTE proposed a concept to make a combination of four services, including 4G, charging, smart city, and street lights, and then centralized and perfect management in a modular and intelligent way, any module. The parts of the system can be flexibly combined. This prospect is very broad. Even if there is no utility pole, other parts can still be well combined. "From this perspective, BluePillar will have a broader prospect." Wang Dongxu said.
On the whole, under the trend of rapid development of smart city construction and Internet of Things, multi-functional LED smart street lamps bring new ideas to urban construction, and their development prospects are promising. However, at present, there are still a series of challenges that need to be faced, such as cost reduction and technology improvement, as well as business models and other issues that need to continue to explore and solve. There is still a long way to go from large-scale applications. For enterprises, it still needs Continue to upgrade the technology, develop products that better meet the needs of users, and prepare for the arrival of the application.
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