I. Associated Value of Smart Light Poles and Roadside Systems
Smart light poles are the first to perceive changes in the environment, control lighting in an energy-saving way, and realize the "multiple-use-in-one-pole" concept. With an installed device, they could make the city a more intelligent one, increasing public safety, and bringing new experiences such as extremely short delay and high-precision navigation, full-process control of multi-source integrated traffic data, overall enhanced traffic control capabilities, forming vehicle-road coordination at multi-intersections, supporting the efficient matching of lanes for the use of road resources, alleviating road congestion in the future, and in-depth improving holographic perception, intelligent decision-making as well as comprehensive management capabilities. Thus the smart city goals of dense urban integration, intelligent management and control, full-process services, and data sharing have been achieved.
II. Application Scenarios of Roadside Systems
(1) Real-Time Road Monitoring
Just think about how smart light poles full of equipments grab real-time high-precision traffic data. Together with the historical experience data, they rely on online traffic simulation technology to foresee the traffic development at such a short time as the next few minutes or hours (such as lane-level traffic flow, density, and speed). In this way, the traffic management departments gain the ability to know traffic conditions beforehand, thus being able to plan road network management more readily and put into practice guidance and control.
(2) Accurate Traffic Information Services
Using the smart light poles, it is possible to deliver very accurate real-time information on the traffic operation environment, abnormal events ahead, and weather conditions. The collaboration of these with the cloud control platform and the various road interaction platforms ensures that such information is accurately sent out to the persons or smart vehicle terminals thus the public travel on highways gets more comfortable.
(3) Coordinated Traffic Guidance and Control
Multifunctional smart light poles, based on second-level real-time, highly detailed, dynamic road network perception, integrate data from the road network along the highways. The platform-based AI algorithms use them to work through various scenarios with the traffic departments, thus helping them come up with traffic flow guidance plans, form capabilities of full-road network coordinated linkage, support overall coordinated control, and ensure smooth operation of highways.
(4) Full-Process Emergency Command Optimization
Perception gear on smart light poles is an automatic monitor of real-time info like weather, events, and traffic jams. The management background not only helps managers judge the impact of the events, draft optimized emergency command plans but also automatically assigns and issues the emergency dispatch instructions. Hence, the work of traffic command becomes dispatch on an overall level, multi-party linkage, and continuous optimization.
(5) Refined Road Maintenance and Management
By means of digital management of lane-level road maintenance data and traffic facility status data and additionally implementing the AI predictive operation and maintenance algorithm of the road maintenance platform, the level of refinements in road maintenance and management raises thus the maintenance efficiency and service quality become better. Some examples are the unmanned inspections, the optimal resource allocation, and the full-life-cycle monitoring of traffic facilities.
(6) Supporting Vehicle-Road Collaboration Applications
The installations on smart lighting poles gather the most accurate and up-to-date dynamic road information, achieve multidimensional integration through edge computing nodes, and thus roadside information is delivered in real-time to the on-board units of road vehicles via RSU (Road Side Unit), which is one of the vehicle-road collaboration areas where the actual application is enabled.
FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions
1. When and where is the Expo scheduled?
Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center (XICEC) in Xiamen, China, is the place and the dates are from May 13 to 15, 2026, at Hall C, where the Expo will take place.
2. How large will the exhibition be?
The size of the exhibition is approximately 40,000 square meters and more than 350 companies participate in the event. The number of visitors to the event is more than 30,000 professionals from different parts of the world.
3. What kinds of activities will be offered?
Besides a trade show, the expo will hold a series of more than 80 professional forums and events that will focus on such subjects as smart mobility, communication for transportation, safety, and environmental-friendly development.
4. How many countries and regions are involved?
According to information, this event is an international intelligent transportation innovation summit, which will be attended by participants from more than 80 countries and regions.
5. Are there opportunities for cooperation?
Indeed the Expo, which is a great venue for business cooperation, technology exchange, and investment opportunities with its network of over 1,000 global partners. One can, therefore, find such opportunities there.
6. Who can I reach out to for more details?
If you need more information, please get in touch with the Organizing Committee through the "Contact Us" section on the official website.
