Development of a smart street lighting system for control an energy saving using Arduino

Khairul Salleh, Mohd Hakim (2021) Development of a smart street lighting system for control an energy saving using Arduino. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

For the past few decades, street lighting has consumed a very large amount of energy because they are using a manual control switch. It is switch ON and switch OFF manually. These lead to a huge waste due to highly usage of electric energy. In addition, this will affect the world if we don’t know how to prevent of this wastage for future. This project aim is to design smart street light control system to reduce waste of energy and to obtain the improvement for a better future. The proposed system is to control the operation of street lighting based on the movement of the object and sunlight availability by using two sensors. The microcontroller is used to control the process for a communication support. Thus, it will control the intensity of light to avoid the unnecessary usage of energy if the streets are empty. Also, to provide an energy saving as we supplied solar panel to reduce energy consumption. Whenever in the daylight, sun sends out energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation. Solar cells are used for the generation of electrical energy. The solar cells receive the solar energy. The solar cells operate on the photo-electric energy by using solar cells principle. The energy from the photovoltaic cells is used to switch on the lights. At present solar electric power generation systems are having fixed solar panels whose efficiency of generation is less. This smart system is to control the light system, using an PIR (Passive Infrared) sensor that will detect the movement of object which is human or vehicle. The light will reduce the brightness if there is no one in the streets. Once the sun light is gone, LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) sensor will activated and the system is automatically switches ON the lights. As soon as sun light is detected, it will automatically switch OFF. Hence, the result showed that this smart street light can to reduce energy consumption and replacing the old generation system to improve management system. It also can reduce the human work efficiently compared to a normal system. Thus, we can save a lot of energy. The Smart Street Lighting System for control an Energy Saving using Arduino is to provide an energy saving and autonomous operation which is to reduce power consumption when the streets are empty.

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