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Research Article Volume 10 Issue No.5

Intelligent Street Light System using Wireless Transmission

Sriharsha Revadi1, Sriram Sai Deepak2, Pooja. M3, Sahana Karanam4, V. Shiva Kumar5
B.E Student1, 2, 3, 4, Assistant Professor 5
Department of CSE
RYMEC, Ballari, India

Abstract:
Street lights are the largest consumer of energy in the cities, using up to fifty percent of the city’s energy. An intelligent street light
management system supported LED lamps and wireless communication technologies are often designed and installed within the
cities. Though, it will have initial cost of investment for replacing the normal wired systems but many power are often saved by using
this technique An intelligent street light system can detect vehicles and vary the intensity of the road light by using LED lamps as per
the traffic flow. It also can help in monitoring and controlling of street light system and fault detection of the lamps through wireless
technology.

Index Terms: Intelligent Street Light System, LED street lamps, WSN, GSM, energy saving, LDR Sensor, IR Sensor, HID (High
Density lamps).

1. INTRODUCTION [3] Chaitanya Amin, Ashutosh Nerkar, Paridhi Holani, Rahul

Kaul. GSM based autonomous street illumination system for
The street lighting is one of the largest energy expenses of a city, efficient power management, International Journal of
accounting for upto 45-55% of a municipality’s utility budget. Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), Vol. 4, Issue 1,
This intelligent lighting control system can cut municipal street 2013:pp. 54-60.
lighting costs as much as 70%. An intelligent street lighting
system could also be a system that adjusts light output supported [4] B.K. Subramanyam, K. Bhaskar Reddy, P. Ajay Kumar
usage and occupancy, that's automating classification of Reddy. Design and development of intelligent wireless street
pedestrian v/s cyclist, v/s automotive. The Street Lights also light control and monitoring system along with GUI. IJERA,
adjusts the light according to the road condition. This street light Vol. 3, Issue4, 2013: pp. 2115-2119.
management proposes the installation of the wireless based
system to remotely track and control the particular energy [5] Jing Chunguo, Wang Yan Sun, Wenyi Song. Design of
consumption of the road street lights and make the appropriate Street Light Pole Controller Based on WSN, The Tenth
energy consumption reduction measures through power International Conference on Electronic Measurement &
control. The street light controller installed on the road light pole Instruments, ICEMI, Chengdu, 16-19 Aug. 2011: pp. 147 – 150.
will control LED street lighting counting on traffic flow,
communicate data between each street light. The data from the [6] Hassan Khawari, Majid Baghaei-Nejad, Sayeed Reza Alawi,
road light controller are often transferred to base station using Mohammad Nazem Jafari. Intelligent Lighting Control System
wireless technology to watch the system.The mode of operation Based on Zigbee Communication Technique. confbank. um.
of this system can be conducted using auto and manual mode. ac.ir/ modules/conf_display/conferences/.../153_2.p df
The system will switch on-off the lights at required timings and
may also vary the intensity of the road light consistent with 3. RELATED WORK
requirement.
IOT based smart street light management system:
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
The aim of automated streetlight management system using IOT
[1] Archana M., Mahalahshmi R. E-street: LED powered is that the conservation of energy by reducing electricity wastage
intelligent street lighting system with automatic brightness also on reduce the manpower. Streetlights are the basic a part of
adjustment based on climatic conditions and vehicle movements, any city since it facilitates better night visions, secure roads, and
International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, exposure to public areas but it consumes a quite large proportion
Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (IJAREEIE), Vol. of electricity. In the manual streetlight system is powered from
3, Issue 2, April 2014: pp. 60-67. sunset to sunrise with maximum intensity even when there's
sufficient light is out there. This energy wastage are often
[2]Chunguo Jing, DongmeiShu, DeyingGu. Design of Streetlight avoided by switching off lights automatically. The saved energy
Monitoring and Control System Based on Wireless Sensor are often efficiently utilized for other purposes like residential,
Networks, Second IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics commercial, transportation etc.This can be achieved using an
and Applications, Harbin, 23-25 May 2007, pp. 57 – 62. IOT(Internet Of Things) enabled streetlight management system.
This project uses Light Emitting Diodes (LED) that do not

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consume an enormous amount of electricity so that we can Internet of Things Based Intelligent Street Lighting System
replace the power consuming traditional HID lamps. LED lights for Smart City
along with LDR enables the intensity variation which is
infeasible with the HID lamps. As LEDs are directional light This project aims for designing and executing the advanced
sources it can emit light in specific direction thereby optimizing development in IOT for energy saving of street lights. Currently
the efficiency of the street lights. we've a manual system where the road lights are going to be
switched ON within the evening before the sunsets and that they
Automatic street lighting system using LDR are transitioned within the next day morning after there's
sufficient light on the surface. But the particular timing for these
Automatic Street lighting System is a simple, yet powerful lights to be switched ON is when there's absolute darkness. With
concept, which is using a LDR sensor as a switch. By using this this, the facility are going to be wasted up to some extent. This
system we can eradicate manual work at 100%. It automatically project gives solution for electric power wastage. Also the
switches the lights ON when the daylight goes below the visible manual operation of the lighting system is totally eliminated.
region of our eyes. This is done by a sensor called Light The proposed system provide an answer for energy saving. This
Dependent Resistor (LDR) which senses the sunshine actually is achieved by detecting a vehicle using an IR transmitter and IR
like our eyes. It automatically switches OFF lights whenever the Receiver. Upon sensing the movement the sensor transmit the
daylight comes visible to the sensor. By using this technique info to the microcontroller which furthermore the sunshine to
energy consumption is additionally reduced because nowadays modify ON. Similarly as soon because the vehicle or an obstacle
the operated by hand street lights aren't transitioned even after goes away the sunshine gets transitioned because the sensor
the daylight comes visible and also switching ON earlier before sense any object at an equivalent time the status(ON/OFF) of the
sunset. In this project we are not in need of any manual street light are often accessed from anywhere and anytime
operation like ON time and OFF time setting. This project through internet. This project is implemented with smart
clearly demonstrates the working of the transistor in a saturation embedded system which controls the road lights supported
region and cut-off region. The working of the relay is also detection of vehicles or the other obstacles on the road
known. Implementation of this project encourages digital work. .Whenever the obstacle is detected on the road within the
Light- dependent resistor, a photo conductive device has been required time the sunshine will get automatically ON/OFF
used as the transducer to convert light energy into electrical consistent with the obstacle detection and therefore the same
energy. information are often accessed through internet. The real time
information of the road light(ON/OFF Status) are often accessed
Automatic Street Light Control System using Light from anytime, anywhere through internet
Dependent Resistor and Motion Sensor
4. SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS
Automatic street light control system is used in modern world
for energy savings by using Light dependent Resistor (LDR). HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
Nowadays the human has not enough time, and he/she is unable
to find time even to switch the lights on or off. This new system • System : Broadcom Processor
are often used more effectively just in case of street lights. In the
• Hard Disk : 16 GB.
proposed system, the street lights will be switched on just before
the sun sets and are switched off the next day morning when • Monitor : 15 VGA Colour.
there is sufficient light on the road. The proposed model also • Mouse : Logitech.
uses motion sensor to regulate the intensity of sunshine. Huge
power is consumed when most the vehicles don’t move during • Ram :1GB
the late. This paper shows that the proposed System is relatively
• Sensors :IR
low cost, efficiency is better than the existing system.
• Small Display : LCD Display
Automatic Street Light Control with Different Light
Intensity • CPU : Raspberry Pi 3
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT:
Automatic Street Light Control System is a simple but still a
powerful concept, which uses PIC microcontroller. By using this • Operating system: NOOBS Lite.
system manual works are totally removed. It automatically turns • Coding Language : Python3
ON lights when the Car is passing by the way. This is done by a
sensor called Infrared (IR) which senses the light. • Data Base : Firebase Real Time Database

It automatically switches OFF lights whenever the car is passed SOLAR PANEL
away. In this project we control the intensity of street light. The
energy consumption is also reduced by using this because The solar panel is one of the most important part of a solar street
nowadays the manually operated street lights are not switched light, as the solar panel can convert solar energy into electricity
off even when the sun rises and also switched on earlier before that the lamps can use. The electricity generated from the solar
sunset. In this project, there is no need of setting ON time and panel is stored in the rechargeable battery which powers a LED
OFF time manually. lamp during night times. Solar power is getting increasing
popularity as a dependable source for street lighting everywhere

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the planet . Some of the benefits associated with solar street functions are performed that actor. Roles of the actors in the
lights include reduced dependence on conventional energy, system can be depicted.
conservation of energy and less reliance on the national grid.

7. RESULTS

5. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

In this project we are using solar array for generating power and
it will be stored into the rechargeable battery from that we are
giving power supply to the street lights using relays. In this
automatic mode operation we are using LDR Sensor (Light
Dependent Resistor) for measuring candlepower for switched
ON or OFF the road light using relays. The main principle of
LDR is when the sunshine intensity is low; light goes to get on
otherwise it’s getting to be OFF. For the efficient reduction of Figure.1. Street light system
power wastage IR (Infrared) Sensor is used. If any vehicle or
obstacle is detected using IR sensor at that point it'll check the
sunshine intensity using LDR sensor then light will continue or
OFF.

• Automatic mode: when objects are detected street lights are

turned on.
• RF Mode: we are using switches to turn on/off the lights
manually.
• App Mode: Using the app the Street lights are controlled.

Figure.2. RF Receiver

6. USE CASE DIAGRAM

A use case diagram within the Unified Modeling Language

(UML) may be a sort of behavioral diagram defined by and
created from a Use-case analysis. Its main purpose is to present
a graphical overview of the functionality that is provided by the
system in terms of actors, their goals (represented as use cases),
and any dependencies between those use cases. The main
purpose of a use case diagram is to point out what system Figure.3. App Mode

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 light control and monitoring system along with GUI. IJERA,
Vol. 3, Issue4, 2013: pp. 2115-2119.

[7]. Jing Chunguo, Wang Yan Sun, Wenyi Song. Design of

Street Light Pole Controller Based on WSN, The Tenth
International Conference on Electronic Measurement &
Instruments, ICEMI, Chengdu, 16-19 Aug. 2011: pp. 147 – 150.

[8]. Hassan Khawari, Majid Baghaei-Nejad, Sayeed Reza Alawi,

Mohammad Nazem Jafari. Intelligent Lighting Control System
Based on Zigbee Communication Technique. confbank. um.
ac.ir/modules/conf_display/conferences/.../153_2.p df

[9]. Archana M. E-street: LED powered intelligent street

lighting system with automatic brightness adjustment based on
climatic conditions and vehicle movements. Institute of
Figure.4. Street light system with solar Research and Journals (IRAJ) Conference, Chennai, India, 20th
October 2013: pp. 11-16.
8. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT

As of now the project is restricted to one particular city. In the

future we can implement it in multiple cities.

9. CONCLUSION

Street lights are the massive consuming source of energy within

the cities, using up to fifty percent of the city’s energy. Thus, if
intelligent street light is meant and installed within the cities,
then lots of power can be saved. From the survey, it is inferred
that the intelligent street lights can detect the vehicles and vary
intensity of the street light by using LED lamps as per the traffic
flow. It can also help in monitoring and controlling the street
light system and fault detection of the lights through wireless
technology. The system is adaptable, expandable and totally
adjustable to user needs.

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intelligent street lighting system with automatic brightness
adjustment based on climatic conditions and vehicle movements,
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Streetlight Monitoring and Control System Based on Wireless
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efficient power management, International Journal of
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2013: pp. 54-60.

[6]. B.K. Subramanyam, K. Bhaskar Reddy, P. Ajay Kumar

Reddy. Design and development of intelligent wireless street

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