5G Micro Base Station Drives Smart Lamppost

As a new wireless of 5G with a revolutionary property, it will establish a new mobile communication network and offer the service to smart cities in the future. In the construction of a smart city, the layout of 5G equipment, as the transmission channel of the Internet of things, is more appropriate to be arranged on the smart lamppost. It is not only used to be a carrier of 5G but also a data entry of the smart city, integrating multiple functions such as intelligent lighting, LED display, security monitoring, charging post, traffic indicator light, which are determined by the equipment and sensors mounted on. These devices and sensors can access the network through various communication technologies, and provide rich intelligent applications under the enabling of ICT technologies such as the Internet, artificial intelligence, and big data. Intelligent lamppost is a general term for the pole, tower, and other facilities that comprehensively carry a variety of equipment and sensors and have intelligent capacity.

The smart lamppost involves four levels with perception layer, network layer, platform layer, and application layer, which cooperate in operation and show a general step that the perception layer passes timely the external data to the platform layer through the network layer and judges its application scope automatically, then the relevant departments take measures but it. For example, when there is a local fire, the sensing layer can quickly transmit the fire data to the platform layer through the network layer, so that the fire application layer can make a timely response based on this.

Supported by the Policies

In the exploration of urban development, smart lamppost, as a typical model of integrating information and communication technology with traditional public infrastructure, showing great strengths including comprehensive, sharing, wisdom, and harmony, is considered to be the most promising new public infrastructure. It has been widely concerned in many countries around the world and has begun to be built. Domestic smart lamppost is just in its infancy, but the smart lamppost ushers in an unprecedented peak of development, driven by encouraging policies and new technologies.

5G Small Base Station Drives the Market Demand of Smart Lamppost

The micro base station is the basic equipment in the 5G era, while the small base station is based on intelligent lamppost which has multiple advantages such as intelligent management, intensive coverage, and space-saving, etc. Therefore, the 5G micro base station will drive the market demand for intelligent lamppost. From the perspective of the construction scale, we believed that the number of 5G micro base stations will be more than 1.5 times that of 4G base stations with more than 2 times that of 5G micro base stations for 5G small stations. Thus, the theoretical demand size of 5G micro base stations is 125 million, and about 84 percent of that will be based on the smart lamppost. In addition to 5G micro base stations, smart lamppost can be installed in security, various environmental monitors, and other ancillary equipment in the future, and the value of smart lamppost will be continuously explored.

The Market Space of the Smart Lamppost with Huge Potential

According to the data of relevant departments, the total amount of 5G small base station construction in China will reach 20 million in the future. We predict that the market space of the smart lamppost is 24 billion USD, referring to the average price about 1,714 USD of the whole process of a set of smart lampposts, based on an assumption that 70 percent of the small base stations in the country are attached to the smart lamppost.

Philips, as the most typical benchmark of a top lighting enterprise in foreign countries, are not corresponding with domestic standards. And the application of the smart lamppost is not valued, which can be seen from its purchase volume that the export of the smart lamppost has not increased dramatically in a short time, which offers a good living environment for domestic manufacturing.

Industry Leader: Huati Technology

Huati technology is one of the few city lighting services with a complete set of the whole process in China, including preliminary consultation, scheme creation, and lighting planning, etc. Huati technology achieved an operating revenue of 44.7 million USD, with a GR of 15 percent over the same period last year. Its main business income, the main source of whole income during the reporting period, is 44.3 million USD, accounting for 99.2 percent.