Smart lamp poles illuminate the future city

[Phenomenon] In recent years, smart light poles have gradually appeared on the streets of many cities. Unlike traditional street lamps, smart light poles integrate surveillance cameras, 5G micro base stations, security alarms and other hardware. Through information perception and big data interaction technology, they can realize functions such as smart lighting, smart transportation, and information release. With batches of smart light poles being put into use in various places, smart cities have a new look.

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People in many places have discovered that some street lamps have "grown" cameras, display screens and solar panels. In addition to providing lighting, they also have functions such as wireless network, broadcasting, charging, and parking fee collection. This multifunctional smart lamp pole is being widely used in urban construction. The advent of the 5G era has made the significance of smart lamp poles more prominent. 5G base stations have the need to use high-frequency communications and support large capacity and high speed, which requires a large number of tiny base stations in the 5G era to complete denser network coverage. As a homogeneous urban infrastructure, lamp poles are highly favored.

Smart lamp poles with multiple uses not only save energy, but also reduce the occupation of urban land and promote efficient use of resources. At the same time, in some cities, smart street lamp poles also have functions such as weather stations and air quality monitoring, taking into account environmental protection needs. The picture of smart life is slowly unfolding. If smart speakers are becoming an entrance to smart home life, smart lamp poles may become an important entrance and node of the new generation of urban information infrastructure.

The integration and utilization of various resources on smart lamp poles enriches people's imagination of future smart cities. From mobile payment to e-government, from smart homes to smart lamp poles, smart cities are opening their doors. In some visionary ideas, new cities will integrate technologies such as the Internet of Things, the Internet, and artificial intelligence to become an organism with real-time information flow. The lights in the home automatically turn on and off according to sleep conditions, driverless cars can automatically plan routes, and health indicators are directly connected to hospitals... All links are linked to each other, allowing cities to better achieve "on-demand response", greatly improving urban operating efficiency and convenience of life.

Smart cities not only integrate technology, but also reflect value. New urban construction improves the relationship between people and cities by improving hardware facilities. For example, smart street lights can automatically adjust the brightness according to the traffic flow, and can also have functions such as fault alarm and remote meter reading, which can greatly save electricity resources and reduce maintenance costs; intelligent transportation can help people quickly understand the condition of the car and road conditions, optimize travel plans, and reduce the waste of public resources. The main body of the city is people, and sustainable development is the direction of urban construction. Promoting green development of the city through scientific and technological means, thereby improving the happiness of residents, is an important "wisdom" of urban construction.

At present, urban governance is moving from "hardware" upgrades to "software" upgrades. One of the important reasons why smart infrastructure such as smart lamp poles can be promoted is that refined management is becoming a universal requirement for urban governance. By improving the "city brain", accumulating underlying data, and optimizing management algorithms, there is a good handle to greatly improve the effectiveness of urban governance. Of course, we must also see that if infrastructure such as smart lamp poles really want to work, it also depends on smart networking and urban transformation, which involves both commercial interests and public finance considerations, and will inevitably face many tests. Starting from a small smart lamp pole, making full use of the technological dividends of the times, we will surely be able to gather the great wisdom of urban construction and light up future life.