Streetlight is an indispensable municipal infrastructure. With the development of urban construction, the function of streetlight will no longer be limited to lighting. Some experts believe that in order to develop smart city, smart streetlight IoT is an entry point. At present, many cities are also vigorously promoting multi-functional smart streetlight instead of traditional one.

What’s a smart city? Actually the answer is all-embracing. But the key feature of smart city is to connect the whole city in series. In future, there are sensors and cameras everywhere in smart city to guarantee timely information transfer.

However, the construction of smart streetlights needs a good deal of capital, so not every city has enough budget to do it. Take Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, for example, where 15,000 high-pressure sodium streetlights are expensive to maintain, the town hired Ameresco, a renewable energy company, to replace all street lights with LED ones, saving about $1.5 million a year in maintenance and operation costs.

LED smart streetlight with energy-saving and environmentally friendly features creates wireless networks for cities for easy city management and improvement.