Design and Implementation of Smart Street Light Automation and Fault Detection System

Abstract

Street light is considered to be one of the vital sources of light used by the people for various purposes. It is commonly used along walkways and streets especially when the environment is dark. In the conventional street light system, identification of the faulty bulb and energy saving by systematic switching on/off requires human intervention and takes lots of time. The street lights remain in the ON condition with full brightness level throughout the night time even when there is less or no vehicle density. Due to which there is a lot of wastage of Energy. To overcome this issue, a system was proposed which can identify faulty street lights (non-operating) automatically and send that information along with the location to the android application with the help of IoT technology. In addition to that systematic switching on/off of street lights and progressive dimming of street lights based on vehicle’s movement can be achieved with this which aids in energy saving.