Smart Poles: The Potential Building Blocks of Smart City Infrastructure

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According to a 2018 study by McKinsey & Company of smart city deployments in 50 cities around the world, smart city infrastructure could reduce fatalities by 8-10%, accelerate emergency response times by 20-35%, shave the average commute time by 15-20%, and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 10-15%, among other positive outcomes.
With the potential for significant quality-of-life improvements in urban areas, IoT-enabled smart city solutions are a remarkable opportunity and a worthy investment for city planners and developers.
Supporting and Improving City Services with Smart Poles
One potential starting point for smart city implementation are street light poles.
Lighting company Signify recently announced the launch of its BrightSites smart pole technology, which utilizes the ubiquity of a city’s existing street light infrastructure to deliver major wireless connections, such as 4G LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, LoRa, and Sigfox.
Since they work within a city’s street lighting infrastructure, smart poles make it possible for city planners to densify urban network capacity and coverage at their own pace with minimal disruption.
With IoT connectivity and smart pole technology, emergency services and first responders have a powerful smart detection tool that can help them close the emergency response gap.
While the long-term solution to the problem of urban air pollution is to reduce emissions citywide, smart poles can help identify the areas with the most urgent need.
This environmental information can be displayed on smart poles to help citizens limit their exposure to air pollution, and city planners can use the gathered data to support decisions that might improve urban air quality conditions.
Public transit, ride-sharing, and micro-mobility services are fully integrated in a smart city through IoT connectivity to form a holistic MaaS infrastructure that citizens can use to navigate local areas.

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