It is becoming a trend that traditional street lights have been replaced with LED lights street, and also a trend to add intelligent functions to commercial LED street lights. Intelligent function, shortly we call it “smart control”. Combined with LCU(Light Control Unit) and DCU (Data Communication Unit, also daily so called “Gateway”), all of the LED street lights are given permanent ID addresses and all LCUs will collect the dynamic information of the lamps, and DCU will collect this useful information and send it to the cloud server. Customer or administrator check all status of lamps on a website platform from a computer or just mobile phone. This is a fine solution. We support this system and give options to customers. But it is a high-end service because the gateway and LCU are a bit expensive. It is good for the main street roads of a city or that governments take it as important areas. For usual roads in towns or countryside, it will be no need to use this system. Photocell is enough.
“Smart Ready”, means that we provide the NEMA 5/7 pin socket “receptacle” on the lamp before delivery. But it will need an extra device short cap, which keeps the connection of the wiring and confirm the lamp will not get power off. This is the simple concept of Smart Ready because in the future the client wants to install the smart systems then they just replace the short cap with their own LCU devices. The important thing is that the LED driver must be strictly selected because the smart system normally requires 0(1)-10v dimming.