NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BROADBAND AND OPTICAL FIBER TECHNOLOGIES
(NCBOFT) 2015
Advanced Street Light Control System
Meenakshi Awasthi1, Ayush Nagpal2,Govind Sharma3, Sanyog Varshney4 ,Varun Kumar Singh5
Electronics And Communication Engineering Department, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India
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meenakshi.awasthi@abes.ac.in, 2ayushnagpal4@gmail.com,3govind8952@gmail.com,4sanyogvarshney_12@yahoo.com
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singhvk94@gmail.com
Abstract- Advance Street Light Control System as the name
suggests something advanced in the field of street lightning
system. The basic feature is the object based sensing of the street
light system and then automatically switching itself. This feature
is particularly new and a one which is highly energy efficient.
Apart from it, important changes like replacing of sodium bulbs
with LED lams, real time fault monitoring and data updation etc
have also been suggested. What is presented here is only a basic
and an effort to automize the street lightning system. It has an
enormous future scope with number of improvements possible so
as to facilitate the highway lightning system for the next
generation. An illustrative, simple example is carried out
throughout the paper, but the presented methods are highly
scalable, which made them applicable to several practical
projects of varying scale and characteristics.
I. INTRODUCTION
With the era of industrialization and the dawn of globalization
new technologies have always fascinated our lives time and
again. However highway lightning is an area which is
relatively untouched or not much researched upon. Everybody
of us will agree that as for the point of security of moving
vehicles the highways should be lighted, but then lightning up
all the highways all through evening and night poses two
serious problems, they are of electrical maintenance op the
system and most importantly the amount of electricity
consumed. It becomes even more commercially unviable to
light up those highways where the rate of passing vehicles is
very low. Another major issue involving this is the fact the
with the change in seasons the time of lightning also varies
drastically, which requires regular monitoring and changing of
switching times. This project has tried to resolve these
problems in the form of a solution known as Advance Street
Light Control System.
II.HISTORY
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The history of street light systems is pretty much the same
across the world with little improvements across developed
countries. At a glimpse one may say that a common street
light system employs LDR system or even manual switching.
The illumination is through Sodium lamps with a lifetime of
around 24000 hours. However the power consumption is very
high and there is no provision for automatic detection of the
faulty lamps.
III.FEATURES
The solutions to the problem mentioned above are the key
features of this project, i.e. It helps to increase the overall
energy efficiency thus reducing the power consumption,
Substantially reduces the maintenance cost of road lighting
system and has the provisions of automatic alert in the
lightning control room, reducing manual checkups and
maintenance costs.
IV. BASIC WORKING PRINCIPLE

The basic working of the system in laymen terms can
be understood by the fact the system would work on
even a normal highway.

Like the present scenario, with day and night lights
automatically goes OFF and ON respectively.

We replace the normal sodium energy bulbs with
LED lamps.

The street lights would automatically light up with
full intensity whenever they sense any movement
(vehicle, man, animal etc.).

Aftersuccessfully passing of the obstacle, the lights
automatically goes dim by about 50% or the intensity
of LED lamps would reduce by 50%.

If about for an hour, there would be no movement of
anything, the light automatically goes OFF to save
more power and if any sense of movement, the lights
would again automatically light up with full intensity.

The Sensors will be installed at such a distance from
the highway so that the system gets sufficient time to
light up by the time car arrives on the highway, and
as the car passes by the street light poles, the lights of
the poles behind the car goes dimmed and the lights
ahead of the car would light up with full intensity.
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In present scenario, after manual checkup, faulty or
damaged lights are replaced and this manual checkup
is not so frequent, so the process takes large time to
replace the damaged lights results in large
maintenance cost, but in our model, damaged or
faulty lights will automatically be detected in the
control room and thus would be replaced without any
delay and hence also reduce maintenance cost.
V. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Fig. 1 Overall Architecture of Automatic Street Light System
In our architectural module we have used eight poles
consisting of LED’s having interface with the microcontroller
and an LDR sensor to detect day and night. Infrared sensors
are used to detect the movement of obstacles
(vehicle/man/animal) and accordingly making the lights auto
on-off or dimmed as per the requirements. The failure of any
of the lamp would subsequently be detected at the controller
or control station. Further developments can include a weather
based sensor so as to change itself the switching time of light.
The future development may even inculcate web based
connectivity or even GPS systems as shown in the descriptive
architecture above. However that would be the highly evolved
scenario of this project and its cost-benefit analysis would also
be have to carried out.
VI. CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
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Fig. 2 Circuit Diagram of the model
The above figure Fig. 2 shows the circuit diagram made by
considering the 8 pole street light system.
It shows the interfacing of an LDR sensor and Infrared
Sensor Modules with the Microcontroller to automate the
working of LED lights interfaced with the Microcontroller.
VII. TECHNICAL DETAILS

Use of LED lamps (around 50000 hrs. life) instead of
High Pressure Sodium Lamps(around 24000 hrs. life)
decreasing power consumption to a greater extent.

Making Lights auto ON when the Obstacle (vehicle,
man, animal etc.) arrives and auto OFF or dimmed
when empty road by using INFRARED SENSORS,
thus reducing power consumption.

Automatic detection of damaged or fused lights in the
control room results in reduced maintenance cost, if
any.
VIII. LED LAMPS AS A FOUNDATION OF PROJECT
One may wonder that the use of LED lamps will lead to higher
lifetime of the lamp and better energy efficiency but that is not
what the true use is. As compared to sodium lamps which take
up certain time to glow to their full, LED lamps light up
almost immediately thus providing the way for frequent
switching the lamp on and off.
A. Energy Efficiency and Costs
Street Light Control will ensure reduction in energy
consumption and total carbon di oxide-emissions.
Unnecessary lighting can beprevented by targeted dimming or
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switching off, the sectors of the city, roads or individual
luminaires. Street Light Control also has an effect on the
maintenance costs: It provides the option of centraldetailed
monitoring and analysis of a lighting installation and enables
easy maintenance planning.
The condition of each luminaire can thus be checked at any
time and luminaire failures are precisely traceable. An
additional advantage is that: The system information also
facilitates for optimumroute planning for the maintenance
crews.
The central themes of our project – energy efficiency and
sustainability – also change the demands on
street and outdoor lighting. There is no alternative for
reducing energy consumption and operating
Costs, whilst simultaneously optimizing the lighting of safety-
relevant areas.
The need these days is for innovative lighting solutions that
can handle the technical and economic requirements of the
21st century.
B. Safety With The Light
Whether roads, paths or industrial installations – lighting
needs to be reliable in all situations. This means not only for
the cities and communities, but also for the citizen: demand-
orientedlight in obscured areas or under bad weather
conditions. Finally, an intelligent lighting systemcontributes to
the contemporary design of the urban living space, by creating
a quality of lifeand spaces where the citizens feel comfortable.
C. Benefit
The benefit is thatcommunication is possible via existing
power cables (existing infrastructure).
The hardware can easily and quickly be installed in the
switching cabinet and in the luminaire using just a few steps.
The software can be installed in the same way as any other
program. Clear user guidance makes configuration on the
server easy.
Street Light Control is adapted to suit the long lifespan of
outdoor lighting.
Standardized communication interfaces ensure that our
components are future-proof and highly compatible with
various manufacturers.
IX. KEY COMPONENTS
A. LEDs
For model purpose the basic LED is sufficient, practically
lamps of higher wattage would be required.
B. Infrared Sensor Module
Infrared Sensor is an analog device which detects the
movement of vehicle/man/animal etc. But in our model we
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require it to work in digital mode as we would interface it with
microcontroller. So, an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) is
used to convert it in digital mode. IC LM358 is used as ADC
device. It is a Quad OP-Amp IC. As we know for any
communication two things are very important and that are
‘Transmitter’ and ‘Receiver’. Here as well we have both the
things to work with.
C. LDR Module
Light Dependent Resistorwhich detects that whether or not
there is sufficient natural daylight intensity for the need to
switch on or off the lamp. It is also an analog device and has
to be converted in digital mode to interface with
microcontroller.
D. Microcontroller
Microcontroller ATmega 16 which serves as the
basiccontrolling station for the system. It is a 40 pin IC. The 4
ports respectively serve as to connect and interface the various
devices. This device serves for making this Automated
Advanced Street Light Control System.
X. FUTURE SCOPE
This project can be extend to a next level in which it will
automatically work in different weather like Precipitation,
snow, fog etc. WeatherSensor will sense the weather change
and will turn on the lights with the help of microcontroller.
XI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
With due regards, we would like to thank the actual people
behindthis paper. We would like to thank our head of
department, Prof. A.K. Arora, HOD-ECE and Mrs. Meenakshi
Awasthi, Asst. HOD ,ECE department of ABES Engineering
College,Ghaziabad for their guidance at every step. We would
also like tothank our friends, family members for their
extreme support and blessings and to the ALMIGHTY for His
blessings.
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