Recently, citizens who frequently travel to and from Fangzheng Road, Shilong Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province have discovered that this road section has become brighter at night. These changes come from the smart street light construction project in Shilong Town.
In order to improve the quality of the urban environment and create a good road environment for citizens to travel safely, the Shilong Urban Management Bureau promptly rectified the hidden dangers of lighting “dark areas” according to standards and optimized lighting management. It successively inspected Fangzheng Road, Qinglin Road, Fangyuan Road, Xiangyuan Road, and the renovation and upgrading of old street lamps in Long Road and other sections has solved the problem of insufficient illumination at night caused by aging street lamps in the above-mentioned sections, eliminated the risk of collapse caused by rust and corrosion of light pole brackets, and provided a safe and beautiful way for the general public to travel at night lighting protection.
Starting from July 2021, the independent street light poles, probes, signal lights, signs and other poles on the streets of Shilong Town, Dongguan City have been gradually broken into pieces. The poles that once affected the appearance, blocked the sight, and caused inconvenience to the citizens are gradually being replaced. Turn into a multifunctional smart light pole.
In the past, there were many poles on the streets of Shilong, and the structure, height, color, and size of the poles were inconsistent, which affected the overall landscape of the road. The poles had a single function, and they were unable to meet the new infrastructure needs for mounting 5G micro base stations and other sensing equipment. In response to this situation, Shilong Town proposed a smart light pole construction idea in 2021. It plans to build 1,550 sets of smart light poles within three years, and simultaneously replace related smart light pole and street light power supply cables, and bury 6 to 8 pipelines in advance to provide In the future, it will facilitate the power supply and optical fiber laying required for mounting other smart sensors on smart light poles, avoid repeated excavation of municipal roads, and “addition” to urban quality construction by “subtracting” from roads.
It is understood that smart light poles can realize the integration of traffic sign poles, electric police poles, signal light poles, etc., achieving a pole reduction rate of about 64%. At the same time, 5G base stations, advertising light boxes, environmental meteorology, and video surveillance will also be reserved on the poles, public broadcasting and other equipment mounting interfaces, in the future it can provide citizens with services such as smart transportation, smart municipal administration, smart urban management, smart lighting, smart communities, and 5G base station mounting.
Nowadays, Shilong citizens feel safe when traveling at night, and feel a sense of happiness when looking at the bright roads. At present, Shilong Town has built 18 roads with smart light poles, and a total of 939 smart light poles have been built. The completion of the upgrade of smart street lights has greatly improved the quality of life of Shilong citizens and accelerated the process of refined management in Shilong Town.
With the advent of smart light poles, the independent street light poles, probes, signal lights, signs and other poles that used to be scattered on the roadside and in the sky have been reduced to one piece. The poles that once affected the appearance, blocked the sight, and caused inconvenience to citizens have become multi-functional smart light poles, which have improved the overall environmental quality of the city, introduced fresh blood in smart city construction to Shilong, and truly “subtracted” the roads.