Weather Adaptive Intelligent Street Lighting System With Automatic Fault Management Using Boltuino Platform

Abstract

Streetlighting is an important feature of any city since it improves night vision and makes roadways safer. However, it consumes a significant amount of electricity. In the manual system the streetlights are powered for a set period of time with maximum intensity even when there’s adequate light available. This wastage of electricity can be avoided by extinguishing the lights automatically and controlling the intensity of the light. The saved energy can be productively used for different purpose like transportation, commercial, residential and so on. A faulty streetlamp can lead to accident and encourage crime. In the current streetlight system fault detection conduct through manual inspection by electrical inspector or by getting complaint. So, the manual fault detection takes longer time to detect the fault and further rectification. This paper presents a weather friendly streetlight control and maintenance system based on the Boltuino (Bolt IoT+ Arduino) platform. The main objective of this proposed system is to make the conventional streetlight system more energy efficient, weather adaptive, easier to monitor and control detecting fault automatically and minimize the manpower. The technique utilizes LDR with power efficient LED (Light Emitting Diode) to control the light intensity. The IR sensors are used to sense the activity of the traffic so that it can send signal for LEDs to get brighten up for the following particular portion of the road. The LEDs can be act accordingly to the weather. The system can also detect any faulty streetlight and inform the authority by text message with the streetlight pole location. So that servicing can be initiate immediately. The proposed project has accomplished an improved performance with respect to the existing systems.