The three major Chinese operators are expected to invest nearly 200 billion US dollars in the construction of 5G infrastructure. China Mobile has announced that it will set up 5G experimental networks in major cities this year, and the Tianjin network that has been built has achieved a speed 100 times faster than 4G. China Telecom has launched 5G pilot projects in cities such as Xiong'an, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Suzhou, and is expected to achieve commercial use of 5G by 2020 at the latest.
The demand for small base stations in the 5G era will greatly increase, which will increase the cost of network construction for operators. Small base stations have advantages such as flexible deployment and low co frequency interference (which can achieve deployment between 10-20 meters), making them very suitable for covering hot spots or becoming the main way to increase stations in the 5G era.
One of the most feasible ways to install small base stations on the light poles of Zhongzhide Smart Road is to install them. Currently, the deployment methods of small base stations are mainly divided into indoor coverage and outdoor coverage. The specific deployment methods for outdoor coverage mainly include: (1) installation of smart street lights with poles: using roadside cement poles, electricity meter boxes, and other existing constructions for installation. 2) Floor installation: Deploy an integrated microstation, using the D frequency band that is different from the main network, suitable for high-rise construction with signal obstruction. (3) Ground installation: Deploy the vertical small base station directly on the ground.
The installation method based on smart street lights is a typical pole installation method, which has the following advantages: (1) Power supply advantage: The combination of small base stations and street lights can share charging devices, save energy, and solve the power supply problem of deploying small base stations separately. (2) Management intelligence: Through the sensing device on the Zhongzhide Smart Street Lamp, it is convenient to monitor the operating status, temperature, and other conditions of the small base station. If any abnormalities are found, timely warnings can be given, and various monitoring data can also be transmitted to the cloud for easy analysis and utilization. (3) Dense coverage: Due to the current coverage range of a single micro base station being less than 200 meters, dense deployment is necessary to fully cover blind spots. However, the distribution of 5G smart road light poles is uniform, with spacing of less than 100 meters, which can help 5G micro base stations form dense coverage. (4) Space saving: The combination of 5G micro base stations and street lights saves space required for separate deployment, greatly reducing the difficulty of property coordination for base station deployment. (5) Blind spot coverage: Along highways and railways, signal coverage is often poor, and adopting the installation method of Zhongzhide smart street lights is beneficial for achieving blind spot coverage.
The installation of 5G base stations will drive a smart street light market of 117.6 billion yuan. In summary, we predict that in the first four years of domestic 5G network construction, the number of small and micro base stations will reach 11.67 million (389 * 2 * 1.5=116.7) sets, with an annual average of approximately 2.92 million sets. At present, the average price of 4G small base stations is around 2500 yuan. Expected annual market space=29.2 * 0.25 million/set=7.3 billion yuan. According to the 8:2 outdoor and indoor deployment ratio of small base stations, the annual average market size of outdoor small base stations can reach 5.84 billion yuan (73 * 80%=58.4). Due to the perfect integration of small base stations and smart street lights, the deployment of small base stations based on smart street lights is the main form of outdoor deployment. Calculated at 90%, based on
