Steerable 5G Antennas on Street Fixtures for Coverage Gaps

The patent combines the 5G small cell tower function with existing street light infrastructure. The street light pole serves dual purposes: providing illumination and supporting 5G communication equipment. This merging eliminates the need for separate dedicated 5G towers, reducing visual clutter while maintaining coverage area.

The street light pole is transformed into a multi-functional structure that simultaneously provides lighting services and 5G communication services. By making the infrastructure universal, the patent avoids adding dedicated 5G towers that would create visual impact, while still achieving widespread coverage.

The patent merges 5G small cell functionality with existing street light poles in busy areas. Each street light pole becomes a 5G base station, providing superfast speeds without requiring separate dedicated towers. This approach maintains high data throughput while minimizing the visual impact of infrastructure quantity.

Street light poles are converted into multi-functional units that provide both illumination and high-speed 5G connectivity. This universality allows the system to achieve high productivity in busy areas without increasing the visible quantity of communication infrastructure.

The patent segments the 5G coverage area into multiple zones, each served by individual street light pole-based small cells. This segmentation allows each node to provide focused high-speed coverage to its immediate area, while the collective network ensures continuous coverage across the entire service region, eliminating gaps.

The patent employs dynamic beamforming and antenna steering capabilities in the small cells mounted on street light poles. These systems can dynamically adjust their signal direction and focus to maintain line-of-sight connections with moving devices, ensuring both high data speeds and continuous coverage without physical gaps.

The patent uses steerable actuated antennas with movable surfaces that can dynamically adjust their orientation and curvature. This dynamic capability allows the antennas to optimize signal strength and maintain RF links with moving devices, improving reliability while using mechanical adjustment rather than complex electronic phased arrays.

The patent replaces complex electronic beamforming systems with simpler mechanical adjustment mechanisms. The movable surfaces and actuators provide physical steering and focusing capabilities, substituting mechanical systems for more complex electronic control systems while achieving similar signal optimization results.