Smart Street Lighting System

Abstract

The project is about a real time adaptive street lighting scheme, detecting the presence of vehicles and dynamically adjusts the brightness of lights to the optimal level. The main aim of smart street lighting system is reducing the power usage when no vehicle movements are being detected on the road and to turn ON the smart street light only when car approaches. When a vehicle comes, then the next pair of three lights glows while the vehicle keep moving ahead, the coming pair of the lights glows and the pair before, comes back to the initial level after a certain time interval. With this, the energy efficiency is being improved of street lights and its usefulness. The streetlights are assumed to start their operation at sunset and finish at sunrise the next day. We have also proposed a new adaptive smart street lighting algorithm which will illustrate how the system is going to operate according to seasonal changes, and what would be the corresponding operational hours of the smart streetlights to keep them on without causing any delays and problems for the vehicles.