Development Of Energy Saving Street Lighting System Using Arduino Uno

Ng, Yan Harn (2018) Development Of Energy Saving Street Lighting System Using Arduino Uno. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This project aims for designing and developing an energy saving street lighting system. Generally, the existing lighting system will be switched on in the evening before the sunset and switched off in the next morning after the sunrise when there is sufficient lighting on the outside. A huge amount of energy is wasted in keeping the lights ON in that period although there is no one on the road and the lights are not in use. This project provides the best solution for energy saving where the switching and brightness of the lights can be automatically controlled using microcontroller. The system is programmed in such a way that the street lights will be automatically switched ON during dark and switched OFF during daytime. The illumination of the lights is varied using PWM according to the presence of moving objects and the condition of weather. This system needs three sensors to make the entire idea functional, they are PIR sensor. raindrop sensor and LDR. The PIR sensor is used for detecting any moving object going through the street light. The LDR is used to identify the outside lighting condition while the raindrop sensor is used for detecting rainfall. Considering the factor of night-time safety of the road user, the lights won't be turned OFF even though there is no movement detected on the road but is switched ON in dimming state. This system also gives the solution for tracking faulty lamps where the system will generate an alert message and send it to the mobile number of maintainer worker via GSM module when there is any faulty lamp sensed by the LDR. This may reduce the risk of road accidents since the faulty lamps is repaired in time.

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