Antenna Device Integrated with Street Lamp for Urban Aesthetic
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Solution Overview
Problem
In mobile communication systems, securing an installation site for antenna devices in urban areas is challenging due to aesthetic and cost concerns, leading to unnecessary and disfiguring posts from separate installations for street lamps, surveillance cameras, and communication equipment.
Innovation Solution
An antenna device designed to resemble a conventional street lamp or utility pole, integrating an antenna end and a support end with optional lighting and camera modules, allowing for combined installation with existing street lamps or surveillance cameras, thereby reducing the number of posts and harmonizing with the environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If antenna devices are installed on separate posts in urban areas, then communication function is provided, but visual clutter and aesthetic harm increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the antenna device with existing street lamp posts or surveillance camera posts, merging multiple functions (communication, lighting, surveillance) into a single integrated structure. This eliminates the need for separate dedicated antenna posts, thereby reducing visual clutter while maintaining communication functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The antenna device is designed to be universally compatible with existing infrastructure posts (street lamps, surveillance posts). By making the antenna device multi-functional and adaptable to various existing post types, it can be installed without requiring new dedicated structures, thus reducing aesthetic harm while ensuring installation feasibility.
2Reliability
If dedicated antenna posts are installed in urban areas, then communication coverage is ensured, but installation cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
By merging the antenna device with existing street lamp or surveillance posts, the patent eliminates the need to build new dedicated infrastructure. This reuse of existing posts significantly reduces installation costs while maintaining reliable communication coverage through proper antenna positioning and design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent takes advantage of infrastructure that has already been installed (street lamps, surveillance posts) before the antenna device is deployed. This preliminary existence of support structures eliminates the need for new construction, thereby reducing installation costs while ensuring reliable communication coverage.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate posts are installed for street lamps, surveillance cameras, and communication equipment, then each function is fulfilled, but the number of posts and visual clutter increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges street lamp, surveillance camera, and communication antenna functions into a single integrated post structure. This consolidation reduces the total number of posts from multiple separate installations to one unified structure, thereby reducing visual clutter while maintaining all required functional capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated post is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously - providing lighting, surveillance, and communication services. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate dedicated posts for each function, reducing the overall quantity of posts while ensuring all functional requirements are met.
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AI summary
An antenna device for a mobile communication system is provided, in which a post has a selected external appearance. An antenna end is formed at an upper portion of the post for installing antenna parts, and a support end is formed at a lower portion of the post for fixing the antenna device to the ground. At least part of an external body of the antenna end is formed of a material that transmits transmission and received radio signals and a ground support member is formed under the support end to make an external body of the support end stand erect on the ground. The external appearance of the antenna device may take the form of a conventional utility, lamp, or sign post or pole.