Ultimate Guide to choose IoT solar street light

The traditional solar street light is a stand-alone system and is controlled one to one. But for big solar lighting projects, we need an easy way to control and monitor all the solar street lights' working conditions and collect the warning information. In other words, we need an easy but smart solar street light control system.

This was impossible before, but now with the popularization of 4G/5G networks and the development of the Internet, Soaring Lighting has created the IoT solar street light control system to make it come true.

In this article, we will explain to you:

1. How does the IoT solar street light work?
2. What are the functions of the IoT solar street light?
3. Two solutions to make the IoT solar street light
4. Which IoT solar street light control system I should choose?
5. Where can I buy an IoT solar street light?

1.How does the IoT solar street light work?

IoT is short for the Internet of things. There are two main jobs that need the IoT solar street light control system to do: one is to record the working data, and the other is to transmit the working data to the server. Recording the working data is easy, most solar controllers can do it, but how do transmit the working data to the server?

Soaring Lighting choose to use Lora/Zigbee to build a local area network(LAN) and transmit information between lights, then use the concentrator to collect the information and transmit it to the server through 4G/5G networks. Or we can use 4G/5G networks to transmit data to the server directly. Anyway, the data will displayed on the computer or mobile phone finally, and we can see and control the working status of each solar street light in this system.

2.What are the functions of the IoT solar street light?

a. Positioning

Each solar light has a unique number, and it will be displayed as a map on the computer after the network is successfully connected. Therefore, we can see the position of each light on the computer, which is the basis of all intelligent control and monitoring.

b. Real-time monitoring

In this system, the working status of each solar street light will be transmitted to the server in real-time. So we can see, how much power each lamp has charged during the day, how much power consume at night, and how much power is left in the battery... In addition, for the solar street light under unqualified working status, this system will find out automatically and send a warning message, which is convenient for us to find the problem and repair the solar street light in time.

c. Energy saving

For the traditional solar street light, if you want to adjust its working mode, you need to set it one by one, it is really a disaster for big solar street light projects.

But for the IoT solar street light, we can do it easily on the computer. We can adjust the switching time and power of all solar street lights at one time, or we can just adjust some of the solar street lights we want. It can maximize saving energy to prolong the lifetime of the solar street light.

d. Alarm function

IoT solar street light also has an alarm function, and real-time data can be provided for analysis.

Under special cases, the IoT solar street light can also help contractors or sellers to collect payments. If the end-user does not pay for the solar street light project in time, We can turn off all the lights on the computer to force the end-user to make the payment in time.

3.Two solutions to make the IoT solar street light

The key point for the IoT solar street light control system is to collect and transmit the working data and commands between the solar street light and server. Soaring Lighting provides two ways to do it:

a. Solar controller with Lora/Zigbee module + Concentrator with SIM card

This is the first generation of IoT solar street light control system. In this system, each solar controller is built in a Lora/Zigbee module, so a local area network is formed and Lights will transmit working data to the concentrator by Zigbee/Lora signal, then the concentrator with a SIM card will send all the information to the server by 4G/5G network.

In this system, only the concentrator need a SIM card, and usually, a concentrator can control 50-150pcs of solar street light, so it saves lots of SIM card fee and the network fee.

But Lora/Zigbee signal is not stable like the 4G/5G network. If the distance for the street light is not reasonable, some lights may be disconnected after installation.

However, if the contractor have an engineer who knows how the Lora/Zigbee work, it will be good to use this solution.

b. Solar controller with internet module

This is the new solution. In this system, each solar controller has a SIM card in-built, so they can transmit the signal to the server directly. Since the 4G/5G network is more stable than the Lora/Zigbee, this IoT solar street light will work better.

Due to the low SIM card fees and network fees, this solution is widely used in China solar street lighting projects.

If you want to use this IoT light control system for your solar street light project, you should tell us which SIM card you will buy and better send one sample to our company to test. Our engineer will optimize the network.

4.Which IoT solar street light control system I should choose?

We can choose the solar street light control system according to the road and network.

a. If the road is empty and there are few surrounding buildings, Lora/Zigbee can work well in this environment, and choosing Lora/Zigbee solution is the most economical way.

b. If the road is curved, and many surrounding buildings, then the signal may affected. In this environment, the 4G/5G internet module will work better.

c. We all care about the SIM card's cost and data cost, how much does it will cost?

Let's take China as an example. If we buy 2000pcs+ SIM cards at one time, we can deal with the telecom company directly, and get1.5usd/pc. For the data fee, since the SIM card only transmits data when we check the data on a PC or phone, the data fee is very low, we can get it at 1.2usd/pc for one year.

If you are still confused about which solution to choose, you can contact Soaring Lighting, our engineers will provide the final solution according to your needs and budget.

5. Where can I buy an IoT solar street light?

Soaring lighting is a  high-tech solar street light factory in China, with deep research on IoT solar street lights. Till now, Soaring Lighting has successfully completed more than 20 IOT solar street light projects in China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and Thailand. Have successfully installed 26,000+ IOT solar street lights. We have rich experience in the production and installation of IoT solar street lights.

Soaring lighting also provides comprehensive solutions, such as adding cameras, displays, and broadcasting to make the IoT Solar street light smarter. Or use a hybrid charge solution, like solar+wind or solar+electricity to let the solar street light works more stable.

If you need to buy IoT solar street lights, Soaring Lighting is a reliable supplier.

---

If you have a solar street light project that needs to use an IoT solar lighting control system, welcome to inquire. Our sales and engineers will provide you with a realiable solution to help you win the bids.

Sales department: Sales@soaringlighting.com

Tech department: Tech@soaringlighting.com