Applications and Prospects of Smart Poles in Various Industries

Smart Poles endow traditional poles with more functional attributes, allowing for more diversified applications across various industries. The main industry/sector scenarios include:

Transportation Industry

Smart Poles are mainly involved in highway transportation. By hanging traffic signal lights on the smart poles, they provide vehicles or pedestrians with pass or stop information. They hang traffic signs to give direction information, install road traffic information collection devices to gather traffic flow data and record various traffic events, realizing intelligent traffic management. Additionally, they can record and interact with information regarding cargo items or transport carriers (such as vehicles, cargo ships, etc.) to assist in safety inspections, security, and real-time information recording during transportation. The realization of these functions generally requires the smart pole as a spatial entity carrier.

Information Technology Service Industry

On smart poles, information transmission is roughly divided into three categories. One type involves pole equipment collecting operating data and transmitting it to a specific backend or integrated management platform, such as security video surveillance images sent to the police department, which is the main demand. Another type, in the car-road system, involves multi-source sensing units mounted on smart poles to interact with in-vehicle terminals, achieving car-road integration. The last type provides mobile network services in the physical space where the pole is located to meet the network usage needs of the surrounding population.

Construction Industry

Smart Poles belong to one of the industries involved in new infrastructure construction, covering fields like 5G base station construction, new energy vehicle charging piles, big data, and artificial intelligence. Consider smart poles as the main entity for engineering construction requirements, and consider design matching with the pole body when other building spaces appear.

Water Management Industry

Smart poles deployed on both sides of the river can monitor and inspect river management, riverbed water levels, etc., through sensing equipment.

Environmental Governance Industry

Related to smart poles, the primary content involves the measurement and monitoring of various types of pollution such as air and water bodies, extending to a certain degree of environmental governance.

Municipal Facility Management Industry

Smart Poles themselves fall under the jurisdiction of municipal facilities. Via related devices, they can collect operational status information of the pole and the equipment on the pole, managing themselves while monitoring and managing other municipal facilities in the space where the pole is located, thereby improving the operational efficiency of traditional municipal facilities.

Health and Social Work

Smart Poles should provide exclusive services for individuals with disabilities, the elderly, the weak, the sick, and pregnant women, such as convenient emergency calls, braille instructions, and on-demand bus calls.

Public Administration

Smart Poles should undertake the responsibilities of real-time identification of accidents or disasters in crisis situations, uploading events to higher-level departments, and publishing information to evacuate the public. In daily scenarios, they should act as a deterrent and monitor illegal activities. Therefore, the specific functions of smart poles in this industry include event identification, communication transmission, information release, one-click emergency call (voice call for help), and public warnings.

Meteorological Industry

Smart Poles can serve as carriers for miniature meteorological monitoring stations to measure weather-related indicators in the region.

Energy Industry

Smart Poles can consider installing solar panels and other self-energy-producing devices to meet their own power consumption, provided their space and appearance permit. Some smart poles should also provide vehicle charging functions in spaces such as parking lots or roadside parking spaces.

Mining Industry

This industry has strict work environment requirements, and safety issues should be a key focus.Smart poles can respond to real-time monitoring of environmental components (such as CO, dust density, etc.) and react to sudden safety incidents with immediate response and online alerts.

Manufacturing Industry

Smart poles manufacturing requires different pole shapes, thicknesses, lengths, materials, etc., depending on the actual space needs and types of mounted equipment.