Yangzhou, Jiangsu's First "AI + Drone" Smart Streetlight Officially Put into Operation

In the field of urban infrastructure management, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is quietly stepping into a new paradigm of intelligent governance. Recently, Yangzhou's first "light pole integrated drone inspection base station," constructed and operated by Yangzhou Big Data Group, was officially put into operation.

This project uses urban lighting poles as the basic carrier and innovatively integrates drones equipped with dual-mode sensors featuring 4K ultra-high-definition imaging and infrared thermal imaging. This combination of cutting-edge technologies is of great significance, enabling millimeter-level precision inspections of road facilities, green space maintenance, lighting systems, and construction areas within a 3-kilometer radius. This marks Yangzhou's entry into a new era of "air-ground-space integration" in urban infrastructure management.

As a crucial component of Yangzhou's urban lifeline safety project and the city's first "drone + smart street light pole" integrated project, Yangzhou Big Data Group fully leveraged its technological advantages, utilizing AI visual algorithms and 5G real-time transmission technology to upgrade the traditional manual inspection mode. This resulted in "fully automated 24-hour patrols," increasing inspection efficiency tenfold compared to traditional manual methods and improving hazard identification accuracy by 500%, providing a solid guarantee for urban safety.

In terms of actual operation, the drone's daily patrol time can currently reach 35 minutes. During patrols, AI visual algorithms identify various problems and potential hazards such as road construction, manhole cover displacement, and lighting malfunctions. Once a problem is identified, the drone's images are transmitted in real-time to the urban lifeline platform. The platform then combines this image information to promptly dispatch relevant work orders and arrange personnel for on-site verification, thus achieving a closed-loop management process from "problem discovery - work order dispatch - handling - acceptance," effectively addressing pain points in urban management.

In the future, Yangzhou Big Data Group will continue to uphold the concept of innovation-driven development, rely on urban lifeline safety engineering, and continuously explore new paths and models for smart city construction. It will provide more innovative and competitive high-quality services and solid support for smart city construction, digital economy development and other fields, helping Yangzhou accelerate its progress on the track of smart city construction.