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The first batch of smart lamp poles in Henan Yudongnan High-tech Zone are put into use

Recently, the first batch of smart street lights in Huangchuan County, Xinyang City, Yudongnan High-tech Zone, Henan Province, were officially put into use on Nanchang Street of Yudongnan (Phase I) project.

The first batch of smart lamp poles in Henan Yudongnan High-tech Zone are put into use

These seemingly ordinary lights are actually not ordinary. The 124 lamp poles that resemble “spring buds” use “smart combined poles” that integrate lighting, video surveillance, traffic management and other functions. Giving a sense of ritual to “smart” travel and “low-carbon” travel can be called the “smart light” of high-quality development in southeastern Henan.

The Yudongnan (Phase I) project has attracted much attention from all walks of life since its launch. The construction content includes the big health industry park and supporting infrastructure construction projects and the Huanghe ecological governance project (Phase I). Nanchang Street, where the smart street lights are lit this time, is the main urban traffic trunk road in Xinyang City, and it is also one of the first construction projects of the basic supporting projects in the starting area of ??Yudongnan High-tech Zone.

Smart lamp poles are not just “lights”. These street lamps integrate new technologies such as AI-enabled light-following vehicles and deep energy saving. Through the built-in smart gateway, remote control, telemetry, telecommunication and remote adjustment can be realized. In the later stage, it can also be equipped with intelligent sensing equipment such as security monitoring, information release, environmental detection, and smart transportation. It is a demonstration of smart park on street lights.

“Intelligence” does not stop there. The intelligent controller of the street light will automatically and accurately predict the sunrise and sunset time every day according to the longitude and latitude of the equipment. According to the traffic conditions of people and vehicles, it can adjust the illumination and lighting range automatically to realize dynamic and intelligent lighting adjustment to achieve “light when the car comes and dark when the car leaves”, which not only improves the safety of night driving but also reduces energy consumption by about 60%.

The shape of the smart street light is like “Spring Bud” and “Xinyang Maojian”, which integrates the characteristics of Xinyang. Standing in the Southeast Henan High-tech Zone, it symbolizes the revival and prosperity of all things, and has become a beautiful landscape in the Southeast Henan High-tech Zone.

Street lights in Wangjiaji Village, Macheng City, Huanggang City, Hubei Province warm the hearts of the people

As the night deepens, the 50 newly installed street lights in Wangjiaji Village, Zhongguanyi Town, Macheng City, Huanggang City, Hubei Province, are turned on together, illuminating the “safe road” for people to travel and shining into the hearts of the people.

Street lights in Wangjiaji Village, Macheng City, Huanggang City, Hubei Province warm the hearts of the people

“Before the installation of street lights, we got up at 4 a.m. and had to go to the fields in the dark to pick vegetables and deliver them to the vegetable market and large supermarkets in the city before 6 a.m. It was very inconvenient to pick vegetables wearing a cap light or carrying a flashlight, especially on rainy days. You have to carry a flashlight and an umbrella, and you can’t see clearly at all. Either the vegetables are rotten or picked wrong, and the quality of the vegetables is not good, and you can’t sell them at a good price. Now that street lights have been installed around our base, it is much more convenient for us to pick vegetables, the speed is fast, and the quality is good!”

It is reported that the area near the asparagus industry base in Wangjiaji Village is dark every night, especially on rainy days, which makes travel inconvenient and there are safety hazards. Installing street lights to solve travel problems has become the wish of nearby villagers and drivers who often travel on this road section.

The masses have something to say, and the Party Committee and the government have something to respond to. In order to effectively solve the problem of people’s difficulty in traveling at night, in July 2024, under the guidance and support of the Party Committee, Government and Finance Office of Zhongguanyi Town, the Wangjiaji Village Committee and the village work team widely collected suggestions from villagers, conducted field investigations, and held a village representative meeting to discuss and study together. It is planned to carry out lighting engineering construction with the asparagus industry base as the center, and install 50 street lights in the surrounding area to focus on solving the problem of insufficient street lights in Wangjiaji Village. Although the weather is hot, with the joint efforts and cooperation of many parties, the installation of street lights was completed on schedule.

The road leading to Wenxing Village in Dali, Yunnan Province is fully illuminated

The road leading to Wenxing Village in Songgui Town, Heqing County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province is narrow and winding, with poor visibility, and there are certain road traffic safety hazards for villagers. In response to this reality, Tian Jiasheng, a county people’s congress representative from Wenxing Village, put forward “Suggestions on Further Improving the Installation of Street Lights on Rural Roads” at the third session of the 18th People’s Congress of Heqing County held this year.

The road leading to Wenxing Village in Dali, Yunnan Province is fully illuminated

This suggestion has attracted great attention from the Standing Committee of the Heqing County People’s Congress. It has conducted in-depth research in Wenxing Village many times, actively coordinated project funds, and required the village “two committees” and the village work team to do relevant work for the smooth implementation of the lighting project.

Through everyone’s joint efforts, as of now, a total of 110,000 yuan of project funds have been obtained, and more than 90 solar street lights have been installed on the Wenxing Village road with a total length of more than 6 kilometers in the form of pole erection, hanging poles, and repairs, realizing the comprehensive lighting of the road leading to the village and effectively improving the lighting conditions of rural roads.

The smooth implementation of the project has laid a solid foundation for effectively improving the rural living environment, effectively building a rural social security prevention and control system, solidly promoting the rural revitalization strategy, and promoting urban-rural integrated development. At the same time, it also makes Wenxing’s countryside at night a beautiful landscape of the beautiful countryside, greatly enhancing the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security.

32 LED street lights illuminate community residents in Nan’an City, Quanzhou, Fujian

In the early stage of the investigation, Jindan Community found that the Maohua Road resettlement community was not well lit at night, which brought inconvenience and safety hazards to residents’ night travel. To solve this problem, the community decided to invest 100,000 yuan to start the Maohua Road resettlement community lighting project.

32 LED street lights illuminate community residents in Nan'an City, Quanzhou, Fujian

During the construction process, the community arranged special personnel to follow up, and at the same time, they kept a good quality and safety check to effectively promote the installation of community street lights. With the resolution of a series of problems such as the field survey of the street light resettlement site, wiring, and electricity bill payment in the early stage, 32 street lights were quickly installed. Whenever night falls and the street lights are on, residents gather under the street lights to chat and play, and they are particularly happy.

“It’s great to install the lights. In the past, when I went out for a walk at night and walked here, I had to turn on the mobile phone flashlight for lighting. Now that the street lights are installed, we feel more at ease when walking.” This move was unanimously praised by the residents. A total of 32 solar street lights were installed this time, covering and illuminating about 6,500 square meters of road surface in the resettlement community. The installation of street lights has facilitated the residents’ travel, and the dark night life is gone forever. The living environment and quality of life have been further improved.

The interests of the masses are no small matter, and every branch and leaf is always concerned. Although the installation of street lights is a small matter, it is closely related to the happy life of residents. In the next step, Shengxin Town will continue to be guided by the needs of the masses, actively carry out the “I do practical things for the masses” project, and continuously improve the sense of security, happiness and satisfaction of the masses.

Baoding, Hebei Province, conducts centralized maintenance of urban lighting facilities

Recently, the Urban Lighting Management and Maintenance Service Center of the Law Enforcement Bureau of Baoding City, Hebei Province, completed the maintenance of lighting facilities in 2024 as scheduled, and concentrated on rectifying the loss of street lamp facilities caused by long lighting time, large power load, and low temperature, rain and snow weather in winter, to ensure the safe and reliable operation of lighting facilities during this year’s flood season.

Baoding, Hebei Province, conducts centralized maintenance of urban lighting facilities

The Urban Lighting Management and Maintenance Service Center strictly follows the spring maintenance plan and daily inspections, reasonably arranges the construction schedule, and focuses on key sections to give priority to tackling key problems, so as to improve the quality of spring maintenance and the travel efficiency of citizens.

Centralized maintenance of light pole well box transformers. The high-voltage monitoring center conducts a full-scale inspection of the box transformers and water level monitors of the base stations and water accumulation points, cleans and repairs 324 base stations, debugs 20 water level monitors, and paints 17 transformers, etc., with a coverage rate of 100%; Tiedong and Tiexi maintenance stations have repaired and handled more than 7,000 power wells, with a coverage rate of 46.1% of the total power wells, exceeding the target by 16.1%. The average lighting rate in the first half of the year reached 99.46%, exceeding the provincial standard by 1.46%.

Carry out grounding resistance detection of lighting facilities. Rain and snow soaking causes great loss to street light lines. In order to prevent leakage accidents, the grassroots units of urban lighting management and maintenance take the spring maintenance as an opportunity to conduct corresponding grounding resistance detection on street light transformers, distribution boxes, lamp pole facilities, lamps, etc., especially focusing on areas susceptible to waterlogging. For lamp poles that do not meet the grounding standards, take corresponding measures in time to avoid safety hazards caused by lamp pole leakage. At the same time, check whether the door of the street light control box is locked to prevent electric shock when it is opened by itself, and comprehensively check whether the lamp pole is leaking electricity to eliminate safety hazards.

Night patrol and day repair to ensure operation. Implement the night division and group inspection system, promptly feedback problems found during the inspection, make daytime maintenance plans and implement maintenance tasks, so that “night patrol and daytime repair” become the normal working routine. The grid management mode of strong inspection and heavy maintenance is adopted on a daily basis to effectively manage illegal connections and illegal advertisements, ensuring that the intact rate of facilities reaches 97.12%, which exceeds the provincial standard by 7.12%. From January to the end of May, the inspection team cleaned up more than 6,800 small advertisements and debris on lamp poles, cleaned up more than 80 waste road flags, and notified the property rights unit to deal with the crooked, reversed, and irregular road flags. 433 single-lamp extinguishing and 116 large-scale extinguishing were checked to ensure the safe operation of street lamp facilities and create safe and stable urban lighting.

Highlight the main business of maintenance and improve the resilience of lighting. Daily maintenance is refined and detailed. 1,293 sodium bulbs, 312 LED lamp heads, and 477 ballasts were replaced. 132 cable faults and 387 line faults were checked and repaired, which comprehensively improved the operating efficiency of lighting facilities and eliminated potential safety hazards.

As the main flood season approaches, the rainfall in Baoding will increase significantly, which will not only cause inconvenience to citizens’ travel, but also bring severe challenges to the safe and efficient operation of street lighting facilities. The Urban Lighting Management and Service Center will continue to pay attention to weather changes, strengthen the inspection and maintenance of lighting facilities, improve the quality and management level of urban lighting, properly respond to extreme weather, continue to strengthen the safety inspection and maintenance of street lighting facilities, and promptly discover and solve problems that arise, so as to ensure the normal operation of street lighting during the flood prevention period and ensure the safe operation of urban lighting facilities.

New lighting facilities added to Xixi Viaduct, Luncang Town, Nan’an City, Quanzhou, Fujian

The Xixi Viaduct, located at the entrance and exit of the Nan’an West (Lunchang) Expressway in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, originally only connected the G358 line and Maosheng West Road. With the opening of the Anxi Branch Expressway, a huge amount of traffic has been brought to the Xixi Viaduct, which was originally only 1.3 kilometers long.

New lighting facilities added to Xixi Viaduct, Luncang Town, Nan'an City, Quanzhou, Fujian

In order to bring more convenient and safe travel to the surrounding people and people traveling in and out of Luncang. The Luncang Town Government of Nan’an City launched the Xixi Viaduct lighting project through bidding at the end of December 2023. The project took 30 days to be successfully completed. The project installed 24 12-meter-high LED 200W street lights on the approach sections at both ends of the bridge. A 1,650-meter-long LED directional lighting guardrail light was installed on the bridge section, and 2,900 meters of cables were laid.

Luncang Town has been committed to improving the infrastructure construction within its jurisdiction and improving the quality of life of residents. To this end, the road lighting project has been implemented in depth to light up the “footpath” for residents, illuminate the “happy road” in the township, and give rural revitalization a “head start”.

The entire lighting project takes into account many advantages such as energy saving and emission reduction, low carbon and environmental protection, high safety performance, good stability, long service life, etc. It not only meets the lighting needs, but also achieves a harmonious unity of functionality, environmental protection and aesthetics.

The dedicated bicycle road in Beijing’s Changping District extends the lighting hours of street lights

Since 2018, Changping District has vigorously promoted the Huitian Action Plan, implemented Beijing’s first dedicated bicycle road project, and gradually improved the urban slow-traffic system. Since the opening of the first dedicated bicycle road on May 31, 2019, it has greatly enriched the travel methods of residents along the line and has also become a cultural corridor.

The dedicated bicycle road in Beijing’s Changping District extends the lighting hours of street lights

After verification, it was found that the street lights in the roadbed section of the bicycle-only road are solar street lights. The duration of continuous lighting is related to the lighting time and weather. Currently, the lighting time has been set to the maximum lighting time. In order to address citizens’ demands and make up for the problem that solar street lights cannot extend the lighting time, the District Urban Management Committee is actively studying solutions.

The final decision was to extend the shutdown time of the searchlight lighting in the culvert at the intersection of the Beijing-Baotou Line railway and the bicycle-only road to 6:50 a.m. to assist in lighting nearby road sections and meet the requirements for safe riding. Afterwards, the staff reported the adjustment results to the citizens, who were very satisfied with the results.

There is no small matter for the masses. In the next step, the Changping District Urban Management Committee will continue to respond to the concerns of the masses with a positive and serious working attitude, with the goal of resolving citizens’ demands in a timely manner, widely accepting citizens’ opinions and suggestions, treating the masses’ demands as their own business, and focusing on solving the problems of the masses. We will continue to improve service quality and create a good cycling environment for citizens by taking care of the worries, annoyances and worries around us.

Street lights installed on Shuidaosuo Road, Fuyang District, Hangzhou

“In the past, if I didn’t drive home at night, I had to use my mobile phone to turn on a flashlight. Now I don’t have to worry about going home late at night.” Recently, Ms. Wang, a citizen living in Wharf Century Huafu, Fuyang District, Hangzhou, was surprised to find that the road home at night was bright.

Street lights installed on Shuidaosuo Road, Fuyang District, Hangzhou

After understanding the needs of residents, Xinhui Community asked the District Urban Construction Group for help through Fuchun Street. The District Urban Construction Group immediately included it in the people’s livelihood projects and sent the “Bao Liang Wo Contribution” service team of the Environmental Comprehensive Maintenance Company to “light up” the road section.

After on-site investigation, the “Bao Liang Wo Contribution” service team connected a line from the municipal street light line nearby, installed 6 LED street lights and 1 floodlight for the road section, and lengthened the lamp arm according to the on-site conditions to increase the lighting range and brightness.

According to reports, these street lights will be uniformly included in the control and management of the municipal lighting system in the future. At the same time, Xinhui Community has also mobilized community party members, volunteers, micro-grid leaders and other forces to conduct daily patrols. Once they find that the street lights are not on, they will report the situation in a timely manner to ensure that the way home is always bright.

Lhasa launches urban lighting project

On May 23, the Tibet Public Resources Trading Platform released a bidding announcement for the construction (secondary) project of urban lighting project in Lhasa.

Lhasa launches urban lighting project

The content shows that the construction (secondary) of urban lighting project in Lhasa has been approved for construction. The project owner is the Lhasa Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau. The construction funds come from local investment of 600 million yuan. The tenderer is the Lhasa Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau. The project has met the bidding conditions and is now open for bidding.

The project construction site is located in Lhasa; the construction content includes 3591 new lamp poles, 25 wall lamps, 185,171 meters of lighting cables, 183 new distribution boxes and 89 control boxes on 36 roads (road sections, squares) with a total length of about 60.23 kilometers, such as Linkuo East Road and Linkuo West Road, and 10 back streets and alleys. It mainly includes the construction of new light poles and the installation of distribution boxes and control boxes, the laying of cables and control cables, the removal and restoration of road or pedestrian walkway bricks, and the removal and transportation of existing street lights and cables; the planned construction period is 150 days.

The deadline for submission of bidding documents is June 13, 2024, Beijing time, and the location is the Tibet Autonomous Region Public Resources Trading Platform.

Street light renovation in Ganyu District, Lianyungang, Jiangsu

On March 19, as night fell, the newly upgraded and renovated smart energy-saving street lights on both sides of Jinhai Road in Ganyu District, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province all lit up, like a gorgeous ribbon, shining in the night sky of the city, illuminating the night walk of crowds and traffic.

Street-light-renovation-in-Ganyu-District

In recent years, Ganyu District has closely adhered to the development direction of “green and low carbon, energy saving and emission reduction, and high-quality development”, vigorously promoted low-energy and low-consumption urban lighting, and focused on demonstrating and building the 7.7-kilometer-long Jinhai Road intelligent lighting project, with supporting facilities built along the line. Smart zebra crossings, smart street light poles, LED release screens, smart street lights, and building lighting have been installed to outline a colorful urban night scene, allowing residents along Jinhai Road to take the lead in enjoying smart, high-tech happy nightlife brought by lighting.

This year, the district has vigorously carried out the “Energy Saving Lighting” campaign around the goal of “energy saving, efficiency improvement, and scientific lighting” to replace the original high-energy-consuming street lamps such as high-pressure sodium lamps and five-spark lamps, intensify energy-saving upgrades, and take Remove the light source and rectifier in the original lamps and replace them with low-energy consumption, energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and good color rendering LED light sources; on this basis, add controllers to street lamps, and simultaneously implement intelligent remote monitoring and energy-saving management to ensure a large flow of traffic and people in the evening the illumination is normal at all times, and the street light power is automatically reduced late at night when there are few vehicles on the road, effectively meeting the needs of citizens for home life and safe travel, and injecting new vitality into the prosperous urban night economy.

“The new LED light source is not only more than 50% lower in power than sodium lamps, but also has a ‘power-adjustable, on-demand lighting’ function, which can automatically reduce its own power by 60% in the middle of the night when there is less traffic, and the overall energy saving rate reaches more than 60% , comprehensively improve lighting effects and energy efficiency, and achieve a ‘win-win’ of lighting and energy saving,” said Wu Congsen, head of the Street Light Management Section of the District’s Public Utilities Development Center.

Last year, the district completed the construction of a pilot section for street lamp energy-saving renovation on Yitang Road. Sodium lamps on two roads including Jinhai Road and Huanghai Road were upgraded and transformed in March; 25 urban roads including Huazhong Road and Dongguan Road had 1,971 sodium lamps and 625 five-metal lamps. The spark lamp upgrade and renovation work is being implemented in an intensive and orderly manner and will be completed before the end of April. After the energy-saving renovation of street lamps is completed, it is expected to save more than 1.188 million yuan in electricity bills a year. Maintenance costs will also be reduced, further achieving the “double festival” goal of saving electricity and carbon dioxide and saving electricity bills for street lamps in the district, and promoting the green and low-carbon development of urban lighting.