Lighting the Road to Smart Cities

Industry: Transportation

Location: Australia

BACKGROUND

Smart poles have become a part of smart city infrastructure that offers numerous benefits to local officials and residents. The deployment of Smart poles resulted in the creation of cloud-based platforms for a wide-range of innovative parking lot applications, with energy-efficient lighting, public safety via video surveillance, emergency services, environmental monitoring (e.g. CO2 emissions), digital signage (e.g. online advertising), public WiFi hotspot, and USB charging. Local officials view these Smart poles as assets rather than expenditures due to new revenue opportunities. However, for Smart poles to function at their full potential, optimal network design must be in place.

THE CHALLENGE

Providing sufficient network bandwidth for live streaming and event-based recording of each high-resolution IP camera

Fulfilling the PoE demand for all connected Powered Devices on each Smart pole

Capable of withstanding extreme temperatures

Offering flexible port-density for different network applications

THE SOLUTION

Antaira provides customers with a variety of port density industrial switch options, which can be adjusted easily to meet network expansion requirements. All these switch models support high bandwidth applications and work in extreme temperatures (i. ~75°C). To optimize network performance, VLAN segmentation was implemented in order to ensure that both video and Volp data traffic could be entirely separated from user data traffic.
From a Cybersecurity perspective, VLAN segmentation reduces the risk of exposing vulnerabilities to surveillance equipment. With built-in PoE functionality, each switch port provides up to 30W power output, which can easily power up a Powered Device (e.g., IP camera or emergency intercom) along with the “Ping Alive" feature that increases the network reliability of a Powered Device by resetting its PoE power.

ANTAIRA'S PRODUCT SOLUTION

LMP-1002G-SFP-T

10 Port Industrial Port Industrial PoE+ Gigabit Managed Ethernet Switch

• IEEE 802.3at/af Compliant with 30W/Port
• Class 1 Div 2
• NEMA TS2
• Supports IGMP v1/v2, Up To 256 Groups
• Supports Open Standard Rings (ERPS)
• Temperature Range: -40°C to 75°C