Smart Street Light
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BERSN is innovative electronics designer and manufacturer of smart lighting technology, supporting its customers with intelligent hardware and software and offering the highest level of quality, reliability and energy savings.
Working on the market of smart lighting solutions for almost 20 years, BERSN grows to become an industry recognized developer and most progressive company with head office in Shenzhen, China, developing innovative, turn-key, fully integrated smart lighting solutions for Smart City.
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Quality assurance
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Good service
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Our products are complete in variety, good in quality, reasonable in price.
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Complete packaging to ensure products quality, and transport to the destination in the first time.
What is Smart Street Light
Smart street light refers to a network-connected street light. Each street light is equipped with an outdoor lamp controller, internet of things device, and/ or sensors. A smart street light automatically regulates the light intensity based on sunset/ sunrise times, daily schedule, human presence, traffic, and/ or weather situation. Thereby saving considerable energy and lowering the maintenance costs. Smart street lights also capture and transmit data in near real-time to a central management system, so that street light operator gets: Total control over each luminaire, insight into the state of public lighting, and access to a range of lighting applications and services.
Traffic management
Smart streetlights can collect and analyze traffic patterns with sensors and data analytics integration. This information can optimize traffic flow, reduce congestion, and improve transportation efficiency.
Environmental sustainability
By reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, smart streetlights contribute to environmental sustainability goals. They can also use solar panels to power the lights, reducing carbon footprints.
Smart city integration
Smart streetlights are a foundational infrastructure for smart cities. They integrate with other smart devices and systems, such as waste management, parking, and public transportation, creating a connected ecosystem that improves overall urban functionality and quality of life.
Increased quality of life
Well-lit streets contribute to a sense of security and comfort for residents and visitors, making cities more attractive and livable.
Benefits of Smart Street Light
Energy efficiency
Smart streetlights use LED technology, which is more energy-efficient than traditional streetlights. They are also equipped with motion sensors and dimming capabilities, allowing them to adjust their brightness based on the presence of people or vehicles.
Cost savings
With the ability to dim or brighten based on real-time conditions, smart streetlights can optimize energy usage and reduce costs. They have a longer lifespan, reducing maintenance and replacement costs in the long run.
Improved safety
Smart streetlights can incorporate advanced technologies such as cameras, sensors, and sound detection systems. These features enable real-time monitoring of the surroundings, helping to detect potential safety risks or emergencies. Such information can be shared with law enforcement agencies or emergency responders, allowing quicker response times and improved public safety.
AI integration
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a topic of everyday communication with far-reaching implications for our everyday lives. Smart streetlights and their supporting technologies have applications that currently use AI and lay a basis for future uses. For example, cameras with AI can detect multiple occupants rapidly exiting a building, an early sign of an active threat.
Types of Smart Street Light
Motion sensing lights
These lights turn on when they detect movement nearby, helping save energy when no one is around.
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Dimming lights
Lights that can adjust their brightness levels based on factors. Like the time of day or traffic flow, conserving energy when less light is needed.
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Smart solar street light
Streetlights that use solar energy to power themselves, reducing reliance on traditional power sources and promoting sustainability.
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Networked lights
Lights that are connected to a central system, allowing for remote monitoring, control, and maintenance.
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Adaptive lights
Lights that can automatically adjust their brightness and color temperature based on environmental conditions, enhancing visibility and energy efficiency.
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The technology behind smart streetlights can vary depending on its features and requirements, but typically, it involves a combination of cameras and sensors. When implemented on standard streetlights, these devices can detect movement that enables dynamic lighting and dimming. It also allows neighboring fixtures to communicate with each other. If a pedestrian or car is detected, all surrounding lights will brighten until movement is no longer captured.
Additional capabilities of smart streetlights may require more technology, such as image sensors, seismic sensors, sound sensors, speakers, weather and water detection sensors, and wireless transmitters.
After smart streetlights are installed, most vendors offer software that can help cities monitor and manage the technology. This software can also be used to gather any data collected by the streetlights and adjust its features, such as dimming time.
What are the Most Common Communication Technologies Used by a Smart Street Light
An outdoor street lamp controller (OLC) uses different communication technologies to connect with a central light management platform (CMS)/ a command-and-control center (CCC). Each communication mode has its strengths and weaknesses. A City should choose an appropriate communication technology based on its local situation.
RF Mesh: Radio Frequency Mesh is one of the most common communication methods – typically suitable for small networks (below 5000 smart street lights). It is a widely used solution for motion sensor-based smart streetlights. RF Mesh uses a Zigbee-type wireless mesh network (2.4 GHz/ 868 MHz). Controllers typically report to a Gateway, which in turn, connects to CMS.
LoRaWAN: A low-power, wide-area wireless network wherein LoRa Gateway(s) can manage 1000s of connected internet-of-things devices. It is suitable for certain smart city applications such as metering. However, due to security, data limitation, and single-point-of-failure reasons, LoRaWAN is not recommended for the smart street lighting application.
UNB: Similar to LoRaWAN, ultra narrowband based devices connect to centralized UNB Gateway(s). UNB is a proprietary communication technology offered by specific vendors. Lack of international standards, security breaches, and single-point-of-failure remain key concerns for cities that consider using UNB for public critical infrastructure.
PLC: Powerline communication uses existing power cables for data communication between the controller (OLC) and the Gateway (segment controller). It was a popular technology in the early 2000. However, it is an outdated technology often lacking replacement parts and lack improvements in security standards.
Cellular IoT: Cellular IoT has become the most common solution for large citywide smart street light deployments (more than 5000 smart street lights). Here an outdoor lamp controller (OLC) is equipped with a SIM card/ eSIM. OLC connects directly to the local telecom tower (without a physical Gateway). Supported by the 3GPP mobile broadband global partnership and highest security standard, today billions of devices (including mobile phones, ATMs, and traffic lights) use cellular IoT.
Types of Sensors for Smart Street Light
Light sensors
Light sensors are the most popular type of sensors for street lights. Common ones are phototubes and photoresistors. The photoresistors can sense the light intensity of the surrounding environment and then convert the optical signal into an electrical signal.
Meteorological sensors
The street lights can be equipped with various meteorological sensor modules. They can collect information about temperatures, moisture, wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, rainfall, visibility, and so on.
Infrared sensors
Infrared sensors can detect the movement of vehicles and pedestrians and provide suitable lighting automatically. When vehicles and pedestrians approach, the infrared sensors can sense the difference in heat in the surrounding environment. Other times, their energy-saving mode will be on.
Microwave radar sensors
The microwave radar sends microwave signals. When vehicles and pedestrians go by, they will reflect the signal. The sensors can judge if the signal is from vehicles or pedestrians by analyzing the intensity and frequency of the signal.
Water immersion detection sensors
In low-lying areas or rainy cities, the water immersion detection sensors can reduce the loss caused by heavy rain to the greatest extent.
Tilt detection sensors
This type of sensor can sense the change in gravitational field and detect if the street lights tilt and the tilt angle.
How Smart Street Light Was Born
Early lamps were used by Greek and Roman civilizations, where light primarily served the purpose of security. From candle lamps which required that a lamplighter tour the town at dusk, lighting each of the lamps, to oil and gas lamp lighting, to incandescent lights and finally to high-intensity discharge and LED lamps, public lighting has seen a continuous evolution and functionality improvement. Shifting from gas or petrol to electricity represented a remarkable and much needed change for everyday life.
Meanwhile, the Internet has become omnipresent, advanced from PC to mobile connections and has since adapted to almost any type of device. Broadband turned into narrowband, making it possible to send smaller messages without wasting energy and resources. This evolution made the Internet of Things possible, where devices of any type and size can be connected and can communicate with each other.
In this context of technological advancements, public lighting followed suit. LED lamps are not just isolated elements for lighting fixtures anymore, but part of more complex smart lighting infrastructures. Smart streetlight controllers enable individual lamp control, while communication and IoT technologies link devices and street lighting management software together. Therefore, lighting fixtures receive smart features and are now part of the connected lighting revolution, paving the way to smart cities.
How to Choose Reliable Smart Street Light Manufacturers
Choose the right manufacturer according to your needs
According to the required parameters and requirements of the street lighting project, select qualified manufacturers. Confirm that the manufacturer must have a variety of certificates and be able to provide street lights with various parameter requirements. When selecting, you need to know the parameters of the products you want to purchase, such as the power of the lighting fixture, the material and specifications of the light pole, and check whether it meets national standards. Check each data carefully.
Investigate the scale of smart street light manufacturers
In recent years, the street light industry market is in a stage of explosive growth. Many companies want to get benefits from that. They register a street light company as an agent, and then look for other street light manufacturers to cooperate, but it is difficult for a company like this to guarantee the quality of the products. Therefore, it is necessary to find a company that specializes in the street light industry and has an independent manufacturer. The scale of the manufacturer needs to have complete equipment and manufacturing processes to ensure product quality.
Able to provide overall solutions for smart street lights
Smart street light is important to the construction of smart cities. Smart street lights have many functions and they need to be connected to the Internet and need big data statistics. To achieve these, a smart light pole management platform is needed to integrate various functions and data statistics. Therefore, when choosing a smart street light manufacturer, try to choose a powerful company that can provide customers with a smart street light overall solution and a smart management platform. On the other hand, the company should have obvious advantages in product quality, overall solutions, and after-sales service.
Know the projects of smart street light manufacturers
Smart street light manufacturers who have participated in many engineering projects shows that their quality is guaranteed, and they have more experience in installation and after-sales service. Finally, we can have a look at the style design of street light poles. Today’s street light construction attaches great importance to economics. It must not only have practical functions, but also achieve beautiful effects, which is suitable for using in the scene where the street light is located. For example, some smart street light manufacturers will target different usage scenarios. There are different series of street lights, such as municipal road series, scenic park series, community series, etc., you can choose according to your own project needs.
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Working on the market of smart lighting solutions for almost 20 years, BERSN grows to become an industry recognized developer and most progressive company with head office in Shenzhen, China, developing innovative, turn-key, fully integrated smart lighting solutions for Smart City.
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