Modular Street Lighting Device with Segmented Housing for Smart City Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional street lights lack the ability to integrate multiple functions such as power control, temperature detection, and communication, making them inadequate for intelligent city needs and requiring significant resources for future upgrades.
Innovation Solution
A modular street lighting device with separate housing spaces for lighting and auxiliary functional modules, including communication and sensor modules, with a power supply module and electrical connectors for remote communication, allowing for easy integration of functions and future upgrades.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional street lights with fixed size and single lighting function are used, then the device complexity is low and manufacturing is simple, but the adaptability to intelligent city needs is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The street light device is divided into separate functional modules: a lighting module for illumination and an auxiliary functional module for intelligent city functions (sensors, cameras, communication). These modules are housed in separate housing spaces within the same mounting structure, allowing independent design, manufacturing, and future replacement or upgrade of each module based on specific needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The auxiliary functional module integrates multiple functions including environmental monitoring sensors, traffic monitoring cameras, communication modules (3G/4G/WiFi), and power management. This multi-functional design allows a single device to serve both traditional lighting purposes and intelligent city requirements, improving adaptability without requiring completely separate systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If all traditional street lighting facilities are replaced with intelligent lights, then the adaptability to future needs is improved, but the human, material and financial resources required are huge
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the existing lighting module with an auxiliary functional module in a single integrated device that mounts on existing street light poles. This merging approach allows cities to upgrade to intelligent lighting by adding the auxiliary module to existing infrastructure rather than replacing entire lighting systems, significantly reducing material and installation resources required.
Solution Approach 2:
The auxiliary functional module is designed with pre-integrated power supply, communication interfaces, and sensor arrays that can be directly connected to existing street light power and mounting structures. This preliminary preparation of the module design allows for rapid deployment and minimizes installation time and resources when upgrading existing street lights.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional street lights provide only lighting function, then the ease of manufacture is high, but the ability to provide intelligent city functions is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into a lighting module that can be manufactured using traditional, well-established processes and an auxiliary functional module containing sensors, cameras, and communication devices. Each module can be manufactured independently by different specialists and then assembled, maintaining ease of manufacture for each component while achieving integrated intelligent functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing structure serves as an intermediary that physically and electrically connects the lighting module and auxiliary functional module. It provides mechanical support, electrical power distribution, and data communication pathways between modules, enabling complex functionality while keeping each module's manufacturing relatively simple and standardized.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The modular design meets current urban lighting needs while enabling cost-effective upgrades to intelligent lighting systems, facilitating the integration of functions like environmental monitoring and traffic management, and allowing for dynamic brightness adjustments based on weather conditions.
Implementation Method 1
the first lighting module is arranged with a heat sink for radiating heat, and each of the first auxiliary functional modules is arranged with a heat sink for radiating heat
Data Source
AI summary
A lighting device comprising a housing arranged with at least one first housing space and at least one second housing space; at least one first illumination module respectively arranged in the at least one or more first housing space and at least one first auxiliary functional module, respectively arranged in the at least one second housing spaces; wherein each of the first auxiliary functional modules includes at least one of a communication module, a sensor module or a camera module. The lighting device arranged according to an embodiment of the present invention not only satisfies the lighting demand of existing urban planning, but also facilitates the upgrading of intelligent lighting devices with such functions as temperature detection, traffic monitoring and alarm, at a low cost.