In the past, various types of poles such as lighting poles, monitoring poles, and traffic sign poles were everywhere beside the road, which not only took up space but also caused visual pollution. This time, the smart multifunctional street light poles of Yangjin Highway Expressway (Xingnan Road-Gangfeng Highway) innovatively adopted the "multi-pole-in-one" design, integrating lighting, single-lamp controllers, monitoring, public broadcasting, traffic signs and other equipment, and also integrated the characteristics of Zhangjiagang into the street light pole design. This intensive construction measure effectively integrates urban infrastructure resources, makes the road space more tidy and orderly, and further improves the city's appearance.

Intelligent control, opening a new energy-saving and efficient mode

The smart street light management platform is a highlight of this construction. The system can automatically adjust the lighting brightness according to factors such as traffic flow, density of people and vehicles, and time. Switch to energy-saving mode during off-peak hours to reduce energy consumption; increase brightness during peak or night hours to ensure travel safety. At the same time, all street lights use LED light sources, combined with remote control technology to further enhance the energy-saving effect. It is estimated that the dynamic strategy will reduce energy consumption by more than 30%, and the project can reduce carbon emissions by about 250 tons per year, helping Zhangjiagang City take a solid step on the road to achieving the "dual carbon" goal.

Technology empowers and realizes new upgrades in urban management

From the perspective of travel safety, adaptive lighting and real-time monitoring reduce the risk of accidents, making night driving safer and citizens more at ease. In terms of operation and maintenance management, the transformation from traditional "manual inspection" to "intelligent early warning" has increased fault response efficiency by 50% and reduced maintenance costs by 60%, reducing costs and increasing efficiency from the source, achieving an efficient transformation from labor-intensive to technology-intensive, and injecting new momentum into urban management.

Forward-looking planning, exploring the new future of smart transportation

The construction of this smart street light system is forward-looking and extensible. The lamp poles have reserved interfaces for sensors such as meteorological monitoring and traffic flow statistics, laying the foundation for future technology upgrades and function expansion. The project also plans to explore the "integrated air, space and land" urban management model, deeply integrate smart lamp poles with new technologies such as 5G and drone inspections, collect environmental data in real time and transmit it back to the urban management platform, provide strong support for traffic dispatch and emergency response, and further expand emergency command, environmental monitoring and other scene applications, so that urban management is more accurate and efficient.

The opening of the smart street light system on Yangjin Highway Expressway (Xingnan Road-Gangfeng Highway) is a successful practice of our city on the road to intelligent transformation of urban infrastructure. It not only provides citizens with a safer, more efficient and convenient travel experience, but also sets a new benchmark for smart transportation that can be replicated and promoted. In the next step, the Municipal Service Center will continue to lead with innovation, strengthen work guidance, let the smart street light system take root in more projects, use "small street lights" to leverage "big people's livelihood", and inject new momentum into accelerating the construction of a smart city with higher quality and warmth.