One of the development trends is intelligence. As mentioned above, solar LED lights are highly controllable, which provides the possibility of creating an automated intelligent street light system around them. In this street light system, accurate algorithms and even machine learning capabilities based on environmental information (e.g., ambient light, the survival and activities of people or things, etc.) can realize the automatic adjustment of street light switches and brightness without human intervention, and the benefits are obvious to all. As a network covering urban infrastructure, street lights themselves may become more intelligent edge nodes of the Internet of Things. In the future, it is possible to add more functions to LED street lights (e.g., meteorology, air quality monitoring, etc.), making them play a more important role in smart cities.

But we can also see that this intelligent development trend will also pose new challenges to the design of solar LED street lights - the system will be more complex. This determines that when the shape and space of street lights are limited, they must include functions such as lighting, driving, sensing, control, communication, and more extended functions. To meet this challenge, standardization is the only way out, and it is also another important development trend of current LED street lighting. The advantage of standardization is that it can enable more technology suppliers' functional modules to be seamlessly integrated with LED street lights, thereby greatly improving the scalability of the system.

Intelligence promotes standardization, and standardization promotes the deepening of intelligence - the two trends interact with each other, driving the continuous evolution of LED street lighting technology and applications.