An IoT Based Smart Utility Pole and Street Lighting System

Abstract

Multifunctional Intelligent utility poles can increase urban efficiency while reducing energy costs, due to their ability to incorporate electronics, software controls and sensors that can receive and transmit data. This paper presents the design and analysis of an integrated solution for sustainable smart cities ecosystems. The system is comprised of three major components: a smart utility pole, street-lighting and an off-grid photovoltaic systems for powering the solution. Cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications receive, analyze and manage data in real time for controlling and supervising. The system is installed in the Institute of Computing building at the Federal University of Alagoas in the city of Maceió - Brazil and is mainly used to recharge mobile devices, digital signage display totem and street-lighting. The discussion in this paper is based on implementation of a smart system based on IoT to remotely monitor its performance and use cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. The overall result is a cloud based automatic utility pole and street light efficient system, which can be implemented as a standalone off-grid system.