Two: Smart poles cannot think; smart poles cannot think, but they are an important part and carrier of the smart city. The essence of the smart city is a more efficient, healthier, faster, and more sustainable innovative urban service system. The smart city is also an important part of building a smart society.

Four: Smart lamp posts are also known as smart street lights; smart lamp posts are lighting poles with lighting functions, also known as smart street lights. To transform the original street lights into smart lamp posts, it is necessary to renovate the light source and control system, utilizing the original address of the lamp post to achieve multi-functional use. After intelligent upgrading, they can become smart street lights.

Five: Characteristics of smart streetlights; Smart streetlights are a model of integration of information and communication technology with traditional urban infrastructure, featuring comprehensive functions, intelligence, high cost, and difficult management and control.

Six: The Origin of Smart Lighting Poles; The earliest smart lighting pole was developed by a German company, with only charging stations installed on ordinary streetlights.

Seven: Smart Lighting Poles and 5G Pairing Up; Smart lighting poles are an important carrier for the deployment of 5G microcell base stations, with 85% of data connections carried by 5G microcell base stations, which have a much higher density than 4G.

Eight: Smart Lighting Poles as One of the Carriers for 5G Construction; Only about 20% of 5G facilities are used for communication between people, while 80% are used for communication between people and things, and between things. Smart lighting poles are one of the carriers for 5G construction.

Nine: In areas with a high density of mobile communication users, the coverage radius of 5G facilities is less than 200 meters. The 5G microcell base stations installed on smart lighting poles can meet the requirements for signal coverage and are one of the most effective ways to build smart cities.

Intelligent streetlights are the best entry point for big data collection in smart cities; the intelligent streetlight network extends deeply into dense areas such as urban blood vessels and nerves, with wide distribution, superior location, and low-cost site resources and carrying capacity, and will become the data terminal for information collection and dissemination.

Twelve: Multipolar Unity; Smart streetlights can solve the pain points of excessive and redundant construction of urban public space streetlights, affecting the city's landscape, and improve the city's taste, shaping a new city image.

The installation equipment, power supply, and network ownership and management of smart lamp posts are relatively scattered.

The reasons for the pilot phase of smart lamp posts; the planning and construction of smart lamp posts involve departments such as natural resources, housing and urban-rural development, public security, transportation, city management, environmental protection, electricity, street lighting, and communication operators. The cross-system, cross-industry, cross-departmental, cross-level, and cross-regional situations. Among them, complex management and difficult approval are important factors making the implementation of smart lamp post projects difficult.

The price of smart lamp posts is not only several or even dozens of times higher than that of functional lamp posts (high cost), but also in large quantities, requiring more social resources.

Sixteen: The business model of smart streetlights is not yet clear, and a virtuous and sustainable high-quality development model has not yet been formed, but it can also be profitable.

Seventeen: The technical scheme for smart lamp posts is not yet mature, and the departmental projects are simply移植ed. There is still a lot of room for optimization and improvement in the protection, reliability, and safety of the poles themselves.

The government promotes the construction of smart cities, with 5G providing technical support and smart poles serving as carriers for 5G, thereby providing opportunities for its own development.

Currently, it is unclear which department is responsible for smart poles. At the same time, various regions are exploring the ownership and profit models of smart poles.

Combining smart streetlights with technologies such as the Internet of Things and drones can facilitate farmers in timely understanding the growth conditions of crops, improve the intelligence and precision of operations, and enhance the efficiency of agricultural production.

23: The combination of smart lamp posts and vehicle networking can achieve autonomous driving, smart traffic, and smart logistics.

24: Currently, multiple provinces and cities are piloting smart streetlights. By the end of 2019, at least 45 provinces and cities had issued relevant policies on smart streetlights.