Energy Efficient Street Light Controller for Smart

Cities
Nikhil Khatavkar A.A.Naik Balaji Kadam
Department of E&TC Department of E&TC Aahana Technologies
Maharashtra Institute of Technology Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune, India
Pune, India Pune, India balajikadam84@gmail.com
nikhilkhatavkar123@gmail.com apurva.naik@mitpune.edu.in

Abstract—Smart City-based electronic product applications Ineffective lighting system trashes substantial
are gaining importance nowadays. It contains efficient urban economic assets each year. On the other hand, the poor
mobility, efficient public transportation, e-governance, safety lighting system can produce risky circumstances. Energy
and security, smart lighting system, etc. The main focus of this effective utensils and policy can change street lighting
work is to present a design of street light controller to provide
budgets radically (frequently by 25-60%) [1].These funds
a reduction in power consumption and wireless control which
eventually will provide a reduction in the required budget of can cut the requisite for new power plants. It will deliver the
electricity for street lights. Reducing power consumption leads resources for another energy way out for the people who
to a reduction in brightness of lamps. This kind of street live in distant regions. Those saved funds can also empower
lighting states to open street lighting that adapts to movement cities for enlarging street lighting to extra regions, growing
by cars, walkers or cyclists. The system will work as adaptive entree to lighting in underserved regions. Likewise,
street lighting. Lights will be obscured when no action is advancement in lighting feature and advancement in
detected and will light up when some movement is detected. facilities may lead to progress security conditions for
For this situation, the lighting framework is not quite the same walkers and automobile traffic.
as old-fashioned, static enlightenment, or dimmable road
A perfectly designed, energy efficient street light
lighting that diminishes at pre-decided circumstances.
Excessive lighting can be banned by targeted dimming of zones controller has to allow people traveling at night with better
of the city, roads or individual luminaires. According to traffic visibility with security and ease when decreasing energy
and crowd, the light intensity will be controlled. This paper usage and charges. This also should enhance the presence of
also incorporates light sensors which will be useful in a rainy the vicinity. Quite often, street lighting practices outdated
environment. Number of street lights will be controlled by the lighting technology, ill-designed and defectively sustained
user at a remote place. The complete system will work on RTC and, hence consuming enormous amounts of energy and
where lights will be running at 100% intensity in peak traffic monetary assets, and its effects to fail to afford superior
time and with reduced intensity after peak traffic time. lighting.
Keywords—Energy Efficient, LED Street Lights, Dimming
The broadest explanations behind wasteful road
System, Real-time Control, Pulse width modulation (PWM), lighting frameworks in cities are:
ZigBee network, Centralized user interface; • Poor design and installation
• Selection of inefficient luminaires
I. INTRODUCTION • Deprived power value
• Deprived setup and maintenance performs
A. Background and motivation
There are enormous latent for progressing lighting
The street light controller is a smarter version of features while dropping energy usage, charges, greenhouse
the mechanical or electronic equipment previously used for gas emissions, over energy effective retrofits for street
the street light ON-OFF procedure. Energy effectiveness is lighting, better-quality operation as well as conservation
the main issue when arranging enclosed or open air lighting performs.
frameworks. Lighting can represent 10–38% of the On the old-fashioned lighting criterions and
aggregate vitality charge in a run of the mill urban areas disorganized appliances, the lighting schemes do not cause
around the world [1]. Delivering street lighting is considered energy losses and regular replacement of parts. These
the major and costly task of a city. Street lighting is mostly obsolete techniques experience the ill effects of the
a vital issue for civic consultants in developing countries deficiency of inescapable and viable communications,
and the reason behind this is tactical standing for communal observing, computerization, and fault diagnostics issues. To
as well as financial steadiness. address these difficulties, a few innovations have been

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utilized in the writing to spare energy, for example, the use the use of electrical energy. May be, the organization can
of the light emitting diode (LED) rather than metal halide consider applying Street Light Control System by Light
(MH) lights [1][2]. Be that as it may, the system in light of Dependent Resistor, that can actually kill bulb light while
these innovations need additionally progress to build the the daylight drops on it.
energy profitability Effective energy-efficient street lighting Denied support of road lights is extra issue gone up
strategy integrates minimum energy and meeting necessities against by general residents. The cities are hard constrained
for visibility and proper light levels, resourceful lamp for capitals, and the general population needs to confront the
technologies, finest pole height and assignment, effective effect. These days, sun power era has turned out to be more
light distribution. pragmatic and have most recent improvements in viable
India, US, Canada, and many other countries have Photovoltaic Units. Outcomes of these are in the utilization
started introducing street light control system to their road of free road lights that have an insignificant to-no reliance
lighting for street light management, energy conservation on matrix based electric supply. At the point when road light
and maintenance purpose. It helps to reduce carbon footprint is utilized with greatly low-power devouring however high
and saves the environment. In a commercial point of view, it on glow LED globules, the potential power spared from the
also helps to earn carbon credit for the monitory benefit grid based supply is critical. With all this volume
[1][3]. Objectives to present are generation, the each capital cost of LED lamps and the solar
1. To show a smart lighting system which concentrates panel will decrease, and will make the reception
on the self-sufficient operation and the vitality saving significantly more feasible.
money on temperate moderate for the avenues.
2. Manufacture an energy saving smart lighting
framework with coordinated sensors and controllers. II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Plot a smart lighting system for which makes the
structure flexibility and expandability. A. Related Work
3. Plan a smart lighting structure with uniformity and
Automatic Street Lights is all about to control the
versatility with the different business thing and
power consumption at the streets and to eliminate
motorization system, which may join more than
workforce. This includes controlling a street lights circuit
lighting systems. with some specific sensors, Micro-controllers and LDR
during day and night. During daytime street lights are not
B. Present Scenario required to glow, so the LDR keeps the street light off until
the daylight level is low and glows in night time while the
In the greater part of the urban areas, the road resistance of LDR is high. [5].
lights are settled and maintained by municipalities. Most The energy effective ZigBee-based open air light
urban and semi urban communities are as yet utilizing a checking and control framework reflects the client's
blend of fluorescent, CFL, high-pressure sodium lights or requirement and framework energy exhaustion. The
metal halide bulbs, that are not proposed to meet area-wise anticipated ZigBee framework likewise connected the
lighting requirements. Little study or methodology has gone standard routing calculation that impacts in enhanced
into the illuminance needs in various zones of roads, to network introduction when contrasted with the customary
report the fundamentals of vehicular activity and people on frameworks. This can carefully modify the brightness of the
foot. For example, the lighting necessities of vehicle activity LED lights as per the daylight conditions. Likewise, the
in rapid locales are unique from low-speed high movement planned framework can distantly screen the lights status,
districts. So also, lighting needs in street intersections are control utilizations, and the charge of the individual lights
not the same as auxiliary streets. Of course, the lighting and also of the aggregate framework [6].
necessities of an area with vehicular movement will contrast To additionally slice the energy utilizations and to
condense the wiring assembly, various lighting controller
from that of a locale with high person on foot activity.
frameworks have been recommended to determine that
Lighting can represent 10–38% of the aggregate
issue, for example, inhabitance detecting technique [7], light
energy charge in a run of the mill urban communities level change [8], and Power line communication. In spite of
around the world. In this, Gas based units – 22971.25 MW, dropping the wiring assembly in PLC centered plans as
Coal based units generate 154170.89 MW, Diesel – 1199.75 given in [9], periodic falls may happen in PLC systems
MW, , Hydro – 40867.43 MW, Renewable Energy - working on low voltage transmission lines.
31692.14 MWand Nuclear – 4780 MW. The part savvy Various designs are termed in [10] offers a
offer of introduced limit is State-claimed units – 37%, summary of numerous studies commerce with smooth and
Private units - 36% and Central units – 27% [4]. smart street lighting systems. From design examination, it
The road light plan is about the enlightenment of can be seen that efficient street LED lighting systems, with
light as well as the tallness of the lighting post, and this thus greater charges, do have the peak energy savings as well as
varies in view of the prerequisites of that particular zone in the speediest rate of profitability time.
the city. Because of an absence of district insightful review, According to the investigation in [11],
typical recommendations are allotted on a city-wise transforming the original brightness into "brilliant state" and
premise, prompting the advanced spending plan experienced the "dim state" acknowledged energy sparing lamps, as well
in the city lighting framework. Regularly, one notification as guarantees the typical passerby walk. For this reason they
that the road lights remain ON in the great sunshine. These utilize induction coils. That energy sparing control
things happen in view of the lights are turned off in light of framework's energy utilization has a positive association
a pre-chosen time instead of lighting needs, and this changes with the energy of bulbs in the dimmest state. In this
manner, under the enlightenment standard to limit the
in view of season and area of the city. Thus there is a need
energy in the dimmest state can viably enhance the energy
for detailing a well thoroughly considered approach to keep
productivity. has realized imperativeness stores of 2.1 million kWh
The structure is focused on a WSN arrangement of consistently a 56% diminishment in the ULB's essentialness
the broad scale sort that empowers the remote switch of usage for street lighting. Those electrical energy sparing
street lighting bulbs [12]. The framework likewise permits assets have realized cost stores of about INR 6.4 million
reserve funds in the electric power and support costs. The consistently, and the venture funded for it in only 11
engineering utilizes incorporated Doppler sensors that allow months. The project's achievement headed related projects
for vehicle recognition and helps finish the power in other parts of Maharashtra [1].
productivity objective. The road lighting checking Los Angeles city in the USA has permitted a $57
framework empowers the show of periodical reports
million retrofit advancement, including the substitution of
concerning the energy utilization and giving points of
140,000 city road light stuffs with LED apparatuses and the
interest on the upkeep work accomplished or modified for a
future date. Aside from the server presentation, the control establishment of a remote watching framework to gather
focuses on Apache 2.44 web server considers the distant status and report constant execution information for every
contact of the manager by means of a website page. installation furnished with the tools [1].
In [13] author suggests the Lighting-Enabled Smart
City Applications and Ecosystems outline. It comprises a)
controllers, to incite physical procedures, for example, III. PROPOSED SYSTEM MODEL
lighting, b) broad remote Open-air Lighting Set-ups, to
interface the streetlights using either work, or cell systems, A. Single Unit
and c) sensors, to gather heterogeneous spatiotemporal
information about the city, d) cloud-based applications, that
will prepare the data gathered and also spread by the all-
inclusive remote sensors organize.

B. Lamp technology

A discrete programmed energy sparing gadget

bound to the light darkening in general lighting system
commanded by High-Intensity Discharge lamps and
Magnetic ballast [12][14]. The circuit input voltage inside
three levels 170V, 190V and 230V. The determination of
the level is done naturally and relies on upon the hour time.
That dimming method was first mimicked and afterward
tentatively validated utilizing two power levels. The
fundamental downside is the low power factor as well as
consonant waste, that must be enhanced via a superior plan.
The most urgent component of the illumination
framework is the light source. These have the energy
efficiency, visual element and spending parts of the light
framework. A light source is an element that interprets
electrical power, into electromagnetic radiation known as
light. The rate at which electrical energy changes over into . Fig. 1. Single Unit
obvious light is called luminance productivity. It is
measured in lumens per watt. The single unit consists of microcontroller, LCD
Light-emanating diode (LED) innovation is an display for microcontroller, LED lamp circuit driver, Light
advancing innovation with vitality sparing point of view. sensor and pedestrian/vehicle detection sensor as shown in
Operating for an average of 10 hours per day, LEDs have a Fig. 1. To reduce power consumption and to achieve security
lifespan of up to 13 years, and provide a nice spectrum of sensor’s role is important. Hence to detect whether pedestrian
light. The lifespan and performance depend on system or vehicle is going on the street, the related system is
design, the superiority of the LED, working environment, required to use. In rainy season or bad-light condition,
and lumen devaluation factor over a period. sufficient light is required for visibility even in regular
Even though the direct cost of the LED is more daytime. So the corresponding light sensor is used for that
than the cost of HID lamps, the energy depleted by the LED purpose.
is either half of the lamp’s energy or less than that. In Public activity stream around evening time are not
addition to that LED lamps are last longer than conventional the similar each time. Urban street public stream and
lamps and these causes in vital savings. The LED lamp movement stream in the 18 o'clock to 24 o'clock is at the
installation does not require a capacitor or ballast. It changes peak in mean number however following 12 in the night the
to low voltage direct current from the source voltage using a activity stream will be essentially diminished. Nonetheless,
small power supply. urban street lighting has stayed at a high shine for 8 hours,
In Akola Municipal Corporation, Urban Local expending tremendous measures of power, so that the energy
Body situated in Maharashtra state, lights were distributed continues depleting endlessly. To address this issue, the
with more than 11,500 customary street lights with capable system should work on the real-time clock, so that after 12 in
T5 fluorescent tube lights. The venture that was using an the night, light intensity should be reduced.
energy speculation reserves execution contracting approach,
 precisely. The infrared sensor will keep track on intensity
B. Whole System depending on the vehicle detection. Street lights are driven
through LED driver card (FL7733).
Again we want low-power, low-cost wireless
network. This is achieved with ZigBee network. A ZigBee
module is used with every controller. This ZigBee module
will transmit and receive data and controls between base
station and controller. Its low power utilization limits
correspondence separations to 10 to 100 meters observable
pathway, subject to power yield and eco-accommodating
components. ZigBee gadgets can impact data over long
separations by going data through a working system of in
the middle of gadgets to touch more inaccessible ones. In
Fig. 2. Whole System proposed system ZigBee network is used. For
implementation purpose two nodes are used and those will
Limited number of lamps will be controlled by one communicate with central PC.
microcontroller. To expand the system over a large area, The framework was intended to work in stand –
number of controllers will be required to control each lamp. alone, by the energy provided from the AC mains. The
Hence more than one module is designed to work under such benefits from this kind of energy are important thus dodging
circumstances as shown in Fig. 2. It is also important to know the tedious and expensive wiring and association with
the status of LED lamps that is at which brightness they are. outside power systems, supporting significant assets and
In addition to that system should be operated manually so effortlessness of utilization. The plan is anticipated to be a
that manual ON/ OFF or brightness of lamp can be changed. low-control, diminishing the battery limit and furthermore
For that purpose base station or central PC is used on which the drive accomplished from the AC mains. The program
manipulation can be done by GUI. that controls the framework is outlined essentially to abstain
from wasteful energy. Fundamentally, as a result that the
system works exceptionally in the night, evading
IV. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION overabundance of energy during sunshine hours. Moreover,
the sensors enable the system to drive particularly when
The concept of adjusting the intensity of street light required. Once more, the framework works to a great degree
is mainly interrupted by LDR, Real Time Clock (RTC) and prudent LEDs to ensure precise brightness and guarantee
an infrared sensor as shown in Fig. 3. The ARM controller energy investment funds. In conclusion, when the
is interfaced with LDR and Infrared vehicle detection framework is halted, all gadgets are in the rest mode, that
circuitry before inbuilt RTC. The controller output is given led to minor power utilization. The wake-up is activated by
to LED driver circuit which will have a connection with the variety of situations. The assurance of the battery
actual LED street lights. Changing the duty cycle of PWM depends on upon the conditions where the structure is
is responsible for brightness and dimness of street lights. established.
This offered framework might be broke down
as being overpriced; anyway we should consider its
advantages. Insignificantly higher costs of the smaller
scale controller are repaid by the inadequacy of costly
outer wiring and the accessibility of energy system and
perceptibly bring down rates of upkeep. Energy reserve
funds are of most extreme significance today. The
objective is the sparing of working estimations of road
lighting framework portrayed by the straight forward
establishment and low power utilization.

V. COMPLEXITIES INVOLVED
A. Utilization of port pins

As a solitary port of controller is associated with

LEDs yet the calculation which we outlined will give a
change of forces at various port pins. Thus, so as to have
force varieties at the single port we may require mux-
Fig. 3. System Description block diagram
demux.
The brightness control helps in sparing energy in
B. Befuddle in measurements of LPC header
late evenings while movement mass on the streets is little. A
mount
programmable ARM processor is locked in to give
distinctive brightness at the diverse circumstances of night
As the PCB format is planned in ARES experts the
utilizing PWM method, for energy sparing. LDR interfaced
genuine measurements of header mount of LPC 2148
with ARM controller follow the switching operation
contrasts from the accessibility of header mount the market.
 gives the required level of detectable quality to the drivers.
On the interstates, just vehicles are passing. The structure is
C. Two-Way Streets and Adjacent Roads proposed to cut the parts of the paths that have no vehicles
at whatever point. Nevertheless, in the downtown territories,
Two stresses are emphasized for the proposed where people may exist in the city, the system does not cut
structure. The main is, the thing that to fulfill for the the light, yet rather dimming it to the most lessened allowed
bidirectional roads or one-way street. In proposed models, keep running in a couple of periods which is half from the
the infrared sensor can choose the status of the control full power. It can be executed so that the modified control of
signal in perspective of the speed, position and the heading the light can be evaded.
of each vehicle. The second issue is for the two adjacent
roads, in which the Light Nodes is set in the midst of the
two lanes. For this circumstance, Light Node has two lights VI. RESULTS
and two stabilizers. Each offset can be controlled The table given bellow gives an idea about power
independently. In like manner, the infrared sensor can send consumption of five LED lamps of 9W for one month. LED
control signs to each road independently. The lights all over Street lamps are of about 36W and higher. We used 9W
the place that have vehicles will be lit and on the other LED lamp as a prototype.
adjoining street lights will be turned off or dimmed if no As LED lamp is of 9W, energy consumption for 1
vehicles exist on it. This subsequently can reduce the energy hour will be 9Watt-hour. But electricity measures in
usage. kilowatt- hour, hence it is 0.009kWh. We used 5 LED
lamps, hence total energy consumption for an hour will be
D. Dimmable Light Knobs 0.045kWh, and for a month (30 days) it will be 1.35kWh.
So if we use LED lamp with full intensity, it will have an
In the event that the street or road lighting energy consumption of 1.35kWh for an hour using daily for
framework is dimmable, encourage energy sparing can be a month. But with RTC we are decreasing intensity after
acquired. With the quantity of vehicles and the climate peak hours so as to save energy. It is as given in the Table I.
conditions the light power can be controlled. For instance,
toward the start of the night, the light force can sit to 60% Table I. Hour wise Power Consumption
for the zones having vehicles. Furthermore, if the zone has
just a single vehicle, the light force can sit to 40%, however
in the event that there are numerous vehicles in a zone, the
light power can sit to 100%. There exist numerous advances
for the dimmable road lighting frameworks. Reducing light
intensity decreases the perceivability of the drivers, which
will hamper the security of drivers and individuals by
walking. Look into about this theme has been made, the
aftereffect of which demonstrates that the measure of
diminishing does not appear to impact the perceivability of
eyewitnesses until half Existence of Pedestrians. In the
interstates or on the streets where there are no walkers
turning the light off is allowed. That can enhance to energy
sparing without risk. Be that as it may, in the avenues or in
the downtown areas where there exist walkers, finish
switching off of the light is not permitted all the night
regardless of the possibility that there are no vehicles in the
city. This is for the wellbeing of individuals and to take out
the violations and so forth.

E. Light Node Maintenance and Monitoring

A fundamental as well as repetitive undertaking

finished by the development experts is the support and
checking of the street lighting structure. The Lamps have
specific life-time and can be isolated at whatever point.
Subsequently, it must be replaced rapidly to give the
required level of detectable quality and from this time
forward the prosperity. In any case, recognizing the
prosperity status of the impressive number of Lamps in
colossal urban regions containing countless scattered on an
immense number of long roads and lanes is a tough and
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F. Instance of Emergency

Concerning emergency cases, the offered scheme
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network licenses to implement it in distant regions where
the traditional schemes are excessively expensive. The
system is flexible, extendable and entirely modifiable to
user requirements.
This project is an economical, practical, ecological
and the harmless way to save energy. It noticeably
challenges the two difficulties that world are facing today,
saving energy and also the removal of glowing lamps very
powerfully. According to statistical information we can save
more than 35% of the electrical energy that is now
consumed by the highways. Initial cost and maintenance can
be the drawbacks of this project. With the improvements in
technology and good resource design the budget of the
project can be cut down and also with the usage of good
equipment the maintenance can also be reduced regarding
periodic checks. For these causes our paper presents far
more benefits which can over shadow the present
boundaries.
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