Abstract:

Street lights are essential but costly, therefore the need of the hour is to optimize and bring about innovation in the sphere of street-lighting.

Untimely switching on and off, and incessant glowing throughout the day without intensity regulation contribute to tremendous energy wastage.

Also, manual control is tiring and outdated in this day and age of automation. It is of dire need to revolutionize the ways and means through which these lights are operated.

The ultimate goal is to save energy, long term costs, and manpower along with attaining management of time and a systematic cycle of operation.

In this project, a befitting model that makes use of Arduino board is proposed which addresses these concerns. It is the brainpower of the entire setup.

Light dependent resistor (LDR) and infrared (IR) sensors are some of the major components used in smart street lighting.

IR sensor detects movement and LDR powers the street lights only after evening. In this project, we purpose an advanced automatic street light control system that is capable of replacing the old light control system because the manual control of light is not effective in this modern era.

By using this system energy consumption is additionally reduced because nowadays the operated-by hand street lights aren't transitioned even the daylight comes and also switched on earlier before sunset.

Automatic street light using Infra-Red (IR) motion sensor and Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) sensor, where the street lights will automatically turn ON and OFF by detecting the presence of human and amount of luminous energy in the environment at that moment.

We can use an Arduino microcontroller for controlling the sensors and output device light-emitting diode.

Application of such a system can be implemented in park light, street light, room light, smoke detection, and person detection.

The automatic street light system does not need manual work to switch ON and OFF lights. The system itself detects whether there is a need for light or not.

The main objective of the automatic street light control system is:
• To provide an efficient and energy-saving lighting system by evaluating the outside environment lighting condition and motion detection, and then control the lights accordingly.
• To obtain monitor the day and night situation and Turn ON and OFF the LED’s.
• To build a energy efficient street light system.

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