Smart Street Lighting System using IoT and Cloud Computing

Street lights account for the maximum energy expense for any city. A smart street lighting system can cut out lighting costs by almost 70%. A smart street lighting system is a system that adjusts light output based on usage and movement, i.e., automatically detecting movements of either pedestrians or vehicles in the vicinity. For effective street light management, we propose installing a wireless-based system to remotely track and control the energy consumption of street lights of a particular city in real-time and take necessary energy conservation measures through power conditioning and adaptive control. The proposed system should be installed on the street light poles which consist of a wireless module that continuously transmits data to back-end IT systems where we can uninterruptedly monitor the condition of the lights. We can control the LED street lighting based on traffic flow in that particular area. The data from the system can be transferred to a central server using wireless technology and Cloud to have global access to the system. We can automate the system to switch on or off the lights at specific timings. We can also easily identify any glitches or failures in our system because everything is connected over the Internet.