IOT BASED SMART SOLAR STREET LIGHT BATTERY/PANEL FAULT DETECTION

The internet of things (IoT) is able to implement transparently a very large amount of heterogenous end systems, while digital service provides an open access to sub set of data. The focus of this paper is to design & analyze a technologically advanced, cost effective smart solar street light which will detect the faults in the street light's battery/panel with the use of PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) & the microcontroller ESP32. Now a days, Street lights have become a vital aspect including road safety. But the major problem of today in street lights is that the solar street light with sensors need to be equipped with solar cells and solar panels, this has become the target of the theft or criminals. Apart from this, battery theft or fault is also a major challenge facing the operation of installed power infrastructure. It has caused many of such system to be nonfunctional. This paper present a theft or fault detection system for protecting solar street lighting infrastructure. To solve this problem, continuous monitoring of the solar and battery voltage needs to be done. This data can be fetched over the server using server scripting language i.e. PHP. When someone try to remove the battery or solar panel, it will be displayed on the website. The monitored data with date and time can be retrieved as a tabular data for future analysis. With the implementation of this work, precautionary alerts can be given to the service department on the designed website. Arduino Uno module is employed as the main controller of the system. A relay is employed to switch ON and OFF the LED. The prototype is designed and found