Camouflaged Small Cell Housing Layout for Urban Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current small cell networking devices have an unsightly appearance, making them difficult to integrate into urban environments like streetlights and utility poles, and they require a high density of installations due to limited range, which complicates aesthetic integration and network expansion.
Innovation Solution
Designing small cell devices with a desired shape and electromechanical configuration compliant with standards like ANSI C136.41, allowing them to be mounted or integrated into urban objects such as streetlights, signs, and buildings, while incorporating modules like antennas, GPS, and light sensors to provide wireless communication and aesthetic appeal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If small cell devices are deployed with high density to expand network coverage, then network coverage is improved, but aesthetic integration becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The small cell device is designed to perform multiple functions: it provides wireless communication services while simultaneously serving as an aesthetic urban fixture. The device can be integrated into various urban objects like streetlights, utility poles, and building facades, allowing a single installation to both expand network coverage and blend with the urban environment, thus resolving the contradiction between high-density deployment needs and aesthetic concerns
Solution Approach 2:
The small cell networking device is nested within or integrated into existing urban infrastructure objects. By placing the communication device inside or as part of streetlights, utility poles, or building elements, the patent achieves high-density deployment without adding visible clutter to the urban landscape, thereby improving network coverage while maintaining aesthetic integration
2Shape
If small cell devices are integrated into urban objects, then aesthetic integration is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The small cell device is divided into modular functional segments that can be independently configured and integrated. The device includes separate components for wireless communication, power management, and environmental sensing, allowing for standardized integration into different urban objects while maintaining aesthetic integration. This modular approach reduces overall system complexity by enabling plug-and-play integration
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates adjustable parameters and configurable settings that allow it to adapt to different integration scenarios. By changing operational parameters and physical configurations based on the specific urban object it is integrated into, the device maintains aesthetic integration while managing complexity through flexible, parameter-driven adaptation rather than hard-coded solutions
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AI summary
A small cell device includes a housing body, a heat sink, an interface board, a first power amplifier (PA) board, a second PA board, a power board, and a main board. The housing body defines a cavity and has two depthwise ends. The heat sink is coupled to the housing proximate a first depthwise end. The interface board is positioned within the cavity and adjacent to the heat sink. The first PA board is positioned within the cavity and adjacent to the interface board and the heat sink. The second PA board is positioned within the cavity and proximate a second depthwise end. The power board is positioned within the cavity and adjacent to the second PA board. The main board is positioned within the cavity between the interface board and the second PA board. The heat sink dissipates heat generated during operation of at least the first PA board.