Chongqing- From top to bottom, this smart street light developed by Chongqing Tanva Lighting Co., Ltd. is equipped with various practical functions, from 5G base stations, monitoring probes, traffic lights, air monitoring, audio, and video broadcasting, rescuing alarms, mobile phone, and electric vehicle charging, to intelligent garbage cans and more, contributing to intelligent city management.
The Smart China Expo (SCE) 2022, to be held in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality from August 22 to 24, will focus on the theme of "Smart City."
As an old friend who has already participated in previous sessions, Tanva plans to bring two products this year. In an exclusive interview with iChongqing on August 2, Sunny Lin, general manager of Chongqing Tanva Lighting Co., Ltd., described the intelligent-management solar street light and the photovoltaic power generation application scheme.
Smart street lights enable smart city
Lin explained that traditional street lights only have lighting functions, while smart streetlights can automatically adjust their brightness as the environment changes with energy-saving control equipment. "Compared with traditional sodium lights, secondary energy savings can reach over 65%."
"By using smart light pole Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the comprehensive energy saving rate of urban construction can reach 85%, resulting in a lower construction cost," added Lin.
Currently, more Tanva Lighting smart street lights application scenarios can be seen in Chongqing, where Fuling's comprehensive bonded zone was successfully applied with full coverage of 2.7 square kilometers of smart road lights.
Starting from a traditional lighting enterprise, Lin profoundly understands the importance of innovation.
Lin also mentioned the application of health lighting in addition to smart street lights. Students can effectively protect their eyesight by using intelligently designed and multi-functional eye protection lights in classrooms. Using natural-light healthy lighting in hospital wards can improve patients' rehabilitation environment and moods to speed up their recovery.
National strategy motivates intelligent manufacturing
Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the National Development and Reform Commission released a carbon peak implementation plan for urban-rural construction to promote green lighting in cities.
By 2030, light-emitting diode (LED) and other energy-efficient lights should account for more than 80%, with over 30% of cities building digital lighting systems.
"This is a great policy for Tanva Lighting," Lin said. "In light of this, Tanva will strive to upgrade and transform digital plants, focusing on green development in product selection and positionings, such as LED lights, photovoltaic street lights, multifunction street lights, car lights, etc."
According to Lin, Chongqing's lighting electronics industry still has significant potential in terms of green development. Due to its favorable geographical location, Chongqing has an excellent industrial production and development environment. She also pointed out that Chongqing's current industrial chain is not fully equipped, resulting in a substantial difficulty in the actual costs than those coastal cities.
Lin hopes that Chongqing can become more "sci-fi" in the future, stepping to the forefront of China and the world through the development of smart cities.
(Ge Rongchen, as an intern, also contributed to this report.)