Smart Poles Market Statistics:

Smart poles are also referred as intelligent light poles can perform their prime functioning of illumination along with advanced features such as intelligent lights, communication devices, cameras, weather monitoring systems, announcement speakers, signage, and optional EV charger.  It uses a software to possess ability of regulating brightening and dimming depending on ambient light conditions and timings. Smart pole initiatives have successfully acquired a significant position in growing ‘Smart City’ projects across developing nations around the globe. Smart poles help to improve traffic and parking management through real-time data, leading to a decrease in emissions and congestion. 

Smart Poles Market Scope and Structure Analysis:

Impact of COVID-19 on Smart Poles Market: 

• Smart cities around the globe are leveraging their smart solutions in responding to emergency situations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• Drones, AI-based remote temperature sensing, digital twins, and real-time dashboards and data sharing are amongst the technologies that are emerging in new use cases by cities throughout the ongoing pandemic.
• It is anticipated that adoption of smart cities as well as smart homes technologies may rapidly accelerate as a result of the pandemic. 
• Smart pole adoption is observing growth in the pandemic as it offers various intelligent solutions, which may help to restrict and monitor the spread of the disease. 
• Cities are adopting crowd prevention systems over smart pole to ensure safer public places. For instance, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is helping 20 city administrations around India to offer smart technology solutions to help combat COVID-19 crisis. In Visakhapatnam, L&T have installed 50 public address systems (PAS) on smart poles for transmitting official messages regarding the lockdown, precautionary measures, and crowd restrictions. 

Top impacting factors: Market Scenario Analysis, Trends, Drivers and Impact Analysis

Smart poles are rapidly being adopted under ‘smart city’ initiative in developing nations. In addition, governments of developed countries are focused on improvising experience of people while they are in public places by offering web connectivity on streets. These initiatives by governments for smart solutions drives growth of the smart pole market. In addition, smart poles are equipped with smart sensors and video cameras helpful for decreasing overcrowding and traffic, which lets vehicle drivers to drive safely on roads. Rise in fondness for cab services amongst customers continues to raise demand for internet use for tracking directions. This advantage of reduction in traffic jams and accidents prevention also drives demand for smart pole solutions. However, higher investments in smart poles as compared to traditional poles hinder the market growth. On the other hand, use of IoT technologies in smart poles are expected to be opportunistic for the market. 

The global smart pole market trends are as follows:

5G-enabled smart pole lighting

With introduction of the 5G era, various IoT devices are becoming better connected, including lighting facilities across cities. For limited coverage and high speed of 5G technology, numerous base stations are required to be installed to guarantee adequate coverage as well as build connections for various use cases such as ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC)-based autonomous driving. Road and street lighting poles are a perfect place to place these 5G base stations. These lighting poles can be controlled within 5G-enabled smart city networks, along with other connected devices and sensors.

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Key benefits of the report:

• This study presents the analytical depiction of the global smart pole industry along with the current trends and future estimations to determine the imminent investment pockets.
• The report presents information related to key drivers, restraints, and opportunities along with detailed analysis of the global smart pole market share.
• The current market is quantitatively analyzed from 2020 to 2027 to highlight the global smart pole market growth scenario.
• Porter’s five forces analysis illustrates the potency of buyers & suppliers in the market. 
• The report provides a detailed global smart pole market analysis based on competitive intensity and how the competition will take shape in coming years.