Deployment of Industrial Wireless Routers in Smart Light Poles: Illuminating a New "Lighthouse" for Smart Cities

In the wave of smart city construction, smart light poles, as important carriers of urban informatization, are gradually becoming the "new favorites" of urban management. They not only undertake the traditional lighting function of streetlights but also integrate multiple functions such as video surveillance, environmental monitoring, WiFi coverage, and charging piles, truly achieving "one pole for multiple uses." Behind the smart light poles, there is an indispensable "unsung hero" - the industrial wireless router. This article delves into the deployment of industrial wireless routers in smart light poles and how they contribute to the construction of smart cities.

1.Smart Light Poles: The "New Favorites" of Urban Management

1.1 The "Jack-of-All-Trades" Role of Smart Light Poles

Smart light poles integrate multiple functions such as lighting, video surveillance, environmental monitoring, WiFi coverage, and charging piles, acting like a "jack-of-all-trades" and providing comprehensive support for urban management. In terms of lighting, smart light poles can automatically adjust brightness based on traffic and pedestrian flow, achieving energy conservation and emission reduction. In video surveillance, they can monitor every corner of the city in real-time, safeguarding urban safety. In environmental monitoring, they can monitor environmental data such as PM2.5, dust, and smoke in real-time, providing decision-making bases for environmental protection departments. In WiFi coverage, they can offer convenient internet access services to citizens, enhancing the city's image. In charging piles, they can provide charging services for new energy vehicles, promoting green travel.

1.2 The "Pain Points" and Challenges of Smart Light Poles

However, to realize these functions of smart light poles, stable and reliable network support is indispensable. Traditional network cabling methods suffer from high costs and complex maintenance, making it difficult to meet the demands of smart light poles. Industrial wireless routers, with their high-speed, low-latency, and high-reliability characteristics, have become an "effective remedy" for addressing the network pain points of smart light poles.

2. Industrial Wireless Routers: The "Nerve Center" of Smart Light Poles

2.1 The "Hardcore" Capabilities of Industrial Wireless Routers

Industrial wireless routers are specially designed for industrial environments, featuring high performance, high stability, and high security. They support various network protocols and interfaces, enabling connection and communication with various IoT devices and sensors. In smart light poles, industrial wireless routers can play the following roles:

• Providing Stable Network Support: Industrial wireless routers support multiple communication methods such as 5G and WiFi6, enabling flexible switching according to the environment to ensure stable communication among various devices within the smart light poles.

• Realizing Centralized Data Transmission: Smart light poles integrate multiple sensors and devices, generating a large amount of data. Industrial wireless routers can centrally transmit this data to cloud management platforms, providing data support for urban management.

• Supporting Remote Management and Control: Through industrial wireless routers, managers can remotely manage and control devices within the smart light poles, such as adjusting brightness, viewing surveillance videos, and obtaining environmental data, improving management efficiency.

2.2 The "Differentiated" Advantages of Industrial Wireless Routers

Compared with ordinary wireless routers, industrial wireless routers have the following differentiated advantages in the deployment of smart light poles:

• Adapting to Harsh Environments: Industrial wireless routers adopt industrial-grade designs, capable of withstanding harsh environments such as high temperatures, low temperatures, humidity, and vibration, ensuring long-term stable operation within smart light poles.

• Supporting Multi-Device Access: Smart light poles integrate multiple devices that need to access the network simultaneously. Industrial wireless routers support concurrent access of multiple devices, meeting the demands of smart light poles.

• Providing Security Assurance: In industrial environments, data security is of utmost importance. Industrial wireless routers incorporate security mechanisms such as firewalls, VPNs, and encrypted communications, effectively preventing data leaks and malicious attacks.

3. Deployment Schemes of Industrial Wireless Routers in Smart Light Poles

Scheme 1: Smart Light Pole Scheme Based on 5G Industrial Wireless Routers

Taking PUSR's 5G industrial-grade wireless router G816w as an example, this scheme can achieve the following functions:

• Smart Lighting: Through the 5G wireless communication network, realize remote centralized control and management of streetlights, with functions such as automatic brightness adjustment based on traffic flow, remote lighting control, active fault alarming, lamp cable anti-theft, and remote meter reading, significantly saving power resources, improving the management level of public lighting, and reducing maintenance costs.

• WiFi Coverage: G816w features 5G-to-WiFi functionality, with long WiFi coverage distance and fast speed, assisting smart light poles in achieving public WiFi coverage. It supports NSA and NA networks, is compatible with various operators, adopts a high-performance quad-core hardware platform for greater system stability, employs a comprehensive anti-drop mechanism for stable data transmission, uses a multi-antenna design to enhance network receiving and transmitting capabilities, supports dual-band WiFi (2.4G and 5.8G), supports local data storage to ensure data is not lost, and supports multiple VPN methods (PPTP, L2TP, GRE, IPSEC, OPENVPN).

• Video Surveillance: Install video surveillance equipment on smart light poles. F-NR100, with its built-in industrial-grade high-speed processor, is the first choice for transmitting large amounts of data such as videos and images. The videos, images, and sounds captured by surveillance are promptly transmitted to public security and other management departments through F-NR100, making urban management more efficient.

• LED Display: Install LED information display screens to realize the release of various city-level information, including advertisements, traffic flow, public transportation information, and parking garage guidance information. The information that needs to be released by the management and control platform can be sent to the LED screens of various smart light poles through the F-NR100 industrial-grade wireless router, achieving remote, centralized, and real-time releases.

• One-Touch Alarm: In case of emergencies, the 110 alarm phone can be quickly dialed. F-NR100 has GPS positioning functionality, which can assist public security departments in immediately knowing the alarm location based on GPS positioning.

• Smart Charging Piles: Through the G816w industrial-grade wireless router, provide stable wireless communication support for platform statistical management and remote management of charging piles, APP-based paid charging, and third-party paid access.

Scheme 2: Public WiFi Network Deployment Scheme Based on Smart Pole Intelligent Gateways

When accessing and deploying a public communication network for smart light poles, an intelligent gateway that integrates power supply, communication, and remote control functions can be selected, such as the G809 Smart Pole Intelligent Gateway. This scheme can achieve the following functions:

• Convenient Installation and Power Supply: Achieve convenient installation of wireless WiFi APs through the reserved installation sockets of smart light poles and supply power through the power supply interface of the BMG8200 intelligent gateway. The gateway is equipped with a gigabit fiber optic port and an Rj45 network port, capable of providing centralized network access for wireless WiFi APs.

• Remote Centralized Management and Control: Through the remote centralized management and control functions of the BMG8200 intelligent gateway, centralized monitoring of the status and operational states of wireless AP devices and WLAN network devices, as well as convenient functions such as AP device querying and positioning, can be realized, efficiently ensuring network smoothness and stability.

• Customized Development and Expansion of Communication Protocols: The intelligent gateway supports customized development and protocol (docking) of communication protocols. It already supports the IEEE 802.11 series of wireless network standards and can be further expanded, upgraded, and protocol-updated in the future.

• Data Security Assurance: The intelligent gateway supports built-in encryption algorithms and multiple encryptions of sensitive data, ensuring the performance and communication security of public WLAN devices.

4. "Real-World Cases" of Industrial Wireless Routers in Smart Light Poles

Case 1: Smart Light Pole Project of a Municipal Unit

In the smart light pole project of this municipal unit, a smart light pole scheme based on 5G industrial wireless routers was adopted. By deploying industrial wireless routers, functions such as remote centralized control and management of streetlights, public WiFi coverage, video surveillance, and LED information display were realized. This project not only enhanced the intelligent level of urban management but also provided more convenient services to citizens. For example, citizens can access the internet for free through the WiFi on smart light poles to check traffic information, weather forecasts, etc.; management departments can understand the situations in various corners of the city in real-time through video surveillance and promptly handle emergencies.

Case 2: Smart Light Pole Project of a Resort

In the smart light pole project of this resort, a public WiFi network deployment scheme based on smart pole intelligent gateways was adopted. By deploying intelligent gateways and wireless WiFi APs, public WiFi coverage within the resort was achieved. Tourists can connect to WiFi anytime and anywhere within the resort to share travel photos, check attraction introductions, etc. Meanwhile, the resort's management department can remotely manage and control the WiFi network through the intelligent gateway to ensure its stable operation.

5. Industrial Wireless Routers: The "Future Trends" of Smart Light Poles

5G+AI: Creating Smarter Smart Light Poles

With the popularization of 5G technology and the development of AI technology, future smart light poles will become even smarter. As the core equipment of the 5G network, industrial wireless routers will support smart light poles in achieving higher levels of automation and intelligent decision-making. For example, through the 5G network, smart light poles can obtain real-time big data analysis results from the cloud to optimize lighting brightness, adjust surveillance angles, etc.; through AI technology, smart light poles can independently identify abnormal situations, predict equipment failures, etc., improving operational efficiency and safety.

Digital Twin: Realizing "Bidirectional Mapping" Between Virtual and Real Worlds

Digital twin technology is an important direction for future smart cities. By collecting operational data of smart light poles through industrial wireless routers, a digital twin model of smart light poles can be constructed. This model can reflect the operational status, device information, etc., of smart light poles in real-time and achieve bidirectional mapping with the physical-world smart light poles. This means that managers can remotely monitor, debug, and optimize smart light poles in a virtual environment, improving management efficiency and operational and maintenance levels.

Customized Solutions: Meeting Diversified Demands

Different cities and regions have different demands for smart light poles. Industrial wireless router manufacturers can provide customized solutions according to the specific needs of customers. For example, for scenarios requiring high-precision environmental monitoring, industrial wireless routers that support the access of high-precision sensors can be configured; for scenarios requiring multi-device collaborative work, industrial wireless routers that support multi-device linkage can be configured. This customized service will better meet the diversified demands of customers and promote the widespread application of smart light pole technology.

Industrial Wireless Routers - The "Invisible Champions" of Smart Light Poles

In the construction of smart cities, smart light poles are gradually becoming the "new favorites" of urban management. As the "nerve center" of smart light poles, industrial wireless routers, with their high-speed, low-latency, and high-reliability characteristics, provide stable network support for smart light poles; with their multi-device access, remote management, and security assurance functions, they meet the diversified demands of smart light poles. In the future, with the continuous development of technologies such as 5G, AI, and digital twins, industrial wireless routers will play an even more important role in smart light poles, pushing smart cities to a higher level.

For enterprises and individuals who want to venture into the field of industrial IoT, understanding and mastering the deployment technology of industrial wireless routers in smart light poles will open a door to the world of smart cities for you. Let's work together to explore the infinite possibilities of industrial IoT and illuminate a new "lighthouse" for smart cities!