Patent ID: 9262919
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: E01F,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A street lamp for providing safe driving information, the street lamp comprising: a main illumination unit that illuminates a road; a vehicle reception unit that receives an accident occurrence signal or a malfunction occurrence signal of a disabled vehicle; a control unit that generates an accident recognition signal or a malfunction recognition signal depending on whether the accident occurrence signal is received or the malfunction occurrence signal is received, the accident recognition signal and the malfunction recognition signal being generated to be distinguishable from each other; a vehicle transmission unit that selectively transmits the accident recognition signal or the malfunction recognition signal to vehicles positioned ahead of or behind an accident spot or a malfunction spot; a street lamp transmission that selectively transmits the accident recognition signal or the malfunction recognition signal to neighboring street lamps ahead and behind with respect a vehicle running direction; and a street lamp reception unit that receives the accident recognition signal or the malfunction recognition signal from the neighboring street lamps ahead and behind with respect a vehicle running direction, wherein the accident recognition signal or the malfunction recognition signal received through the street lamp reception unit is selectively transmitted to the neighboring street lamps ahead and behind with respect to the running direction of the vehicle through the street lamp transmission unit after subtracting 1 from a value of the accident recognition signal or the malfunction recognition signal.