2018 Outlook: From Ten Thousand Lights in Ten Cities to Smart Cities, the Connectivity of LED Road Lighting Shows
BENWEI LED lighting: As a natural carrier of smart city development, entering 2018, LED road lighting is facing unprecedented development opportunities.
Different from the "ten cities, ten thousand lights" called by the previous government, the 2018 smart city LED street lights will no longer be limited to lighting and environmental protection, but will build a smart city application ecosystem in an all-round way. As the basic node and carrier of smart city construction, LED street lights can be connected to various sensors that collect data to realize the construction of a smart city network with smart street lights as nodes.
Using street lights as the carrier of smart city construction is a view that almost coincides with all walks of life.
Dr. Zhou Wu, Huawei's chief technology officer, once gave a clear overview of the future street lights. He said that the future road lighting will be IoT + LED lighting, and each street light will be combined through the Internet of Things. The smart city solution with street lights as the carrier is not only the control and maintenance of street lighting, but also turns a city into a smart city, covering the entire city and population with sensors and various functions through the street light carrier, and this coverage is dynamic. of.
For example, we create a lighting Internet of Things based on street lighting, users can quickly self-organize the network, which contains a variety of Internet of Things devices and various applications, so that it can not only cover the needs of street lights, but also cover the entire Internet of Things demand. In addition, unlimited connections are provided on the fast gateway, and edge computing is placed on the gateway to realize edge intelligence. On this basis, users can also create a smart platform and place various IoT sensors on the street lights. The entire architecture allows users to apply street lighting to the Internet of Things.
The future road lighting form will be based on the street light pole WIFI mode city "Internet", the city "Internet of Things" based on the integrated access of street light poles, and the "Internet" based on the LED street light optical wireless network mode. Start a sustainable and stable development of urban services to achieve comprehensive utilization of resources.
In the future, LED street lights will have the ability to connect everything, and "connectivity" will be the core function of LED street lighting, pushing LED lighting and intelligent control technology and applications to a new level and field, opening a new chapter in smart cities.
