Solar Street Light
All-in-one and split solar street lights from 50W to 300W with LiFePO4 storage, 3–7 rainy-day autonomy and a 3-year warranty.
Lighting solution
Smart City & Security
Connected lighting with dimming, remote monitoring and multi-function poles carrying cameras, sensors and communications equipment.
The scenario
What makes this project type difficult
Street lighting is the densest, most evenly distributed powered infrastructure a city owns — a grid of poles at regular intervals, with power at the top, along every road. That is why smart-city programmes start there: the lighting column is the natural mounting point for cameras, environmental sensors and communications equipment, and the lighting load itself is the easiest municipal energy line to reduce.
The engineering problem is that a pole designed for one luminaire is not automatically a pole that can carry a camera, a sensor box and an antenna in a storm. Loads, wind area, cable routing, access for maintenance and the interaction between lighting control and other systems all have to be handled deliberately.
Design requirements
- Reduce energy consumption through adaptive and scheduled dimming
- Provide reliable illumination for camera image quality at night
- Carry auxiliary equipment loads without compromising structural safety
- Route and protect power and data cabling within the pole
- Support remote monitoring and fault reporting to reduce inspection trips
- Maintain security lighting continuity where grid supply is unreliable
Recommended configuration
Starting configurations for this scenario
Final wattage, pole height and spacing are always confirmed by the free Dialux lighting design for the actual geometry. The table below is where most projects of this type begin.
| Sub-scenario | Product | Wattage | Pole / mounting | Spacing | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smart urban corridor | LED Street Light on multi-function pole | 160W–250W | 10m–12m galvanized with equipment brackets | Confirmed by Dialux calculation | Scheduled and adaptive dimming, remote monitoring |
| Security perimeter and campus | Solar Street Light with PIR | 60W–120W PIR models | 6m–8m galvanized | Confirmed by Dialux calculation | PIR motion boost, timer, remote control |
| Surveillance-critical junction | LED Street Light + camera mounting pole | 200W–250W | Cantilever or multi-arm to drawing | Per junction layout | Constant output during surveillance hours, fault alarm |
| Grid-unreliable public area | Hybrid solar/grid Solar Street Light | 100W–200W | 8m–10m galvanized | Confirmed by Dialux calculation | Automatic solar/grid switching, APP monitoring |
Control functions available across the range
Mast Lighting solar and LED lighting supports automatic light control, timer control, PIR motion sensing, remote control, APP monitoring, intelligent dimming and fault alarms. In practice most smart-city corridors combine two or three: a scheduled dimming profile for the quiet hours, PIR boost where pedestrians appear, and fault reporting so a failed unit is known before a resident calls it in.
Lighting that serves the cameras
Surveillance value depends on the lighting under it. Cameras need adequate illuminance, controlled glare and consistent uniformity across the field of view — a dark patch between poles produces exactly the unusable footage the system was installed to avoid. We model this in the free Dialux simulation, treating the surveillance zone as a lighting requirement rather than a by-product.
Multi-function poles
Poles can be produced with mounting brackets, internal cable routing, access doors and earthing arrangements for cameras, sensors and communications equipment, engineered for the combined load and wind area. Because we fabricate poles, signal structures and luminaires in-house, the equipment mounting is designed into the column rather than clamped on afterwards.
Continuity where the grid is not continuous
Security lighting that goes dark during an outage is not security lighting. For sites with unreliable supply we specify hybrid units that switch automatically between solar and grid, or fully standalone solar units with 3–7 days of LiFePO4 autonomy, so perimeter and public-area lighting stays on regardless of the network.
Service scope
What is included beyond the hardware
Mast Lighting is TÜV Rheinland audited (MIC-ASI264744) and operates ISO9001 quality management. Engineering support is part of the supply, not a paid extra.
Start an enquiry- Free Dialux photometric design confirming illuminance, uniformity and glare
- Configuration matched to wind zone, temperature band and autonomy requirement
- OEM/ODM customization of wattage, battery, panel, pole design and controls
- Inspection at incoming material, in-process, ageing and pre-shipment stages
- Direct export documentation under our own import and export rights
- Installation guidance, commissioning support and remote troubleshooting
Products used
Recommended products for this scenario
LED Street Light
Modular grid-powered LED road lamps from 120W to 320W reaching up to 200–220 lm/W, with anti-glare optics and IP65 die-cast aluminium housings.
Lighting Pole
Hot-dip galvanized tapered steel light poles in 6m, 8m, 10m and 12m heights, engineered to withstand Grade 12 typhoon winds.
Lithium Battery
LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate) battery packs for solar lighting storage, with a typical 5–8 year service life and wide-temperature operation.
Scenario questions
Frequently asked
How is the correct configuration decided for this type of project?
The configuration follows the photometric result, not a catalogue table. We take the road or area geometry, the mounting height under consideration and the lighting class the project must meet, then run a Dialux simulation and adjust wattage, optics, height and spacing until the target is reached.
What is the best mounting height for this scenario?
Mounting height is a function of road or area width and the required lighting class. Mast Lighting supplies 6m, 8m, 10m and 12m hot-dip galvanized poles and 20m to 60m high masts, so the height is selected from the calculation rather than from stock availability.
How long do the solar systems used in this scenario last?
LiFePO4 batteries carry a typical service life of 5 to 8 years and the complete solar street light carries a 3-year warranty. Systems operate between −40°C and 65°C with IP65/IP66 protection.
Can Mast Lighting supply the poles and structures as well as the luminaires?
Yes. Luminaires, hot-dip galvanized poles, high masts, traffic structures, photovoltaic modules and LiFePO4 storage are all manufactured in our own factory, so the complete package ships against one specification and one delivery schedule.
How much does a project of this type cost?
Cost is driven by wattage, battery and panel sizing, pole height and finish, quantity and destination. Mast Lighting sells factory-direct with independent export rights — send the project parameters and we return a configuration with pricing.
Other scenarios
Related lighting solutions
Municipal & Road Lighting
Compliant, energy-efficient illumination for urban arterials, residential streets, highways and rural roads — grid-powered or fully solar.
Traffic & Rail Transit
Signal poles, gantry structures and high-uniformity lighting for intersections, highway approaches, rail corridors and transit depots.
Renewable Energy
Off-grid and hybrid solar lighting with LiFePO4 storage for sites where grid power is absent, unreliable or uneconomic to extend.
Request a quote or a free lighting design
Send us your road width, pole height, spacing and target lighting level. Our engineers return a Dialux simulation and a factory-direct quotation for the matching configuration.