Chinese company ZTE announced its “Smart Street 2.0 - Highlights Your City“ solution at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. Smart Street 2.0 is the second generation of ZTE’s Low-Power Wide-Area-Network (LPWAN) based solution which helps city administrators transform public services on the city’s streets and roads, thus creating a solid foundation for a practical smart city.
Utilising IoT, cloud computing platform and Big Data technologies, the solution integrates key services for everyday street life, such as parking and lighting. It aims to bring convenience to the lives of citizens, while at the same time helping city administrators improve efficiency with better management and accurate service planning, also boosting revenues from transparent and fair fee collection systems.
Environmental friendliness is a key feature of the solution. Functions like Parking shows the real-time acquisition of available parking spaces in the street and in the vicinity of drivers, providing navigation and online payment fee facilitation. Smart street lights operate intelligently based on factors such as the time of the day, natural light conditions and weather.
Smart street LED displays can show weather, temperature, noise and other important information and can also be used for displaying public information and advertisements. The sensors also record the volume of waste and report to the back-end system. When 80 percent capacity is reached, an automatic ‘waste pickup signal’ is sent to the back-end system, which in turn notifies the waste collection vehicle driver. It also navigates the driver to the pickup points using the most efficient route, creating a dynamic schedule for multiple waste collections in the area.
ZTE also announced that the towns of Rüsselsheim am Main, Kelsterbach and Raunheim have agreed on comprehensive cooperation for Smart City development. As part of the town network known as ‘Three Wins’, the three municipalities in the German state of Hessen, aim to provide businesses with the smart infrastructure that is required for the digital working environment of the future and are on their way to becoming a European model region for Smart City.
A total of 15 individual projects were selected which will be implemented in separate municipalities or at a cross-municipal level. In the projects, which comprise infrastructure measures as well as the use of the Internet of Things (IoT), the three towns will install sensors to collect metadata. The data is processed in the Urban Operation Center (UOC) and made available to the citizens as well as businesses via a big data platform.
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