Automatic control and detection of fault in streetlight lamps.

Abstract

Street lighting provides a safe night time environment for all road users including pedestrians. A research done by D.Steigerward, indicates that night-time vehicular accidents are significantly reduced by the provision of street lighting. It also helps to reduce crime, and encourages social inclusion by providing an environment in which people feel they can walk in hours of darkness. The objective of the project is to provide automatic control and fault detection on street lamps. The lighting system targets the energy and automatic operation on economical affordable for the streets and immediate information response about the street lamp fault. Moreover, errors which occur due to manual operation can also be eliminated. The street light system is checking the weather for street lamp ON/OFF condition. The weather is light or dark are sensed through a LDR sensor, if the weather is light, the system will switch OFF the lamp. If the weather is dark, the light system will switch ON the lamp. After the LDR sensor checks for light glow or not glow status. If light is not glowing, the sensor sends the value to street light system. The street light system will generate message and send SMS to serviceman mobile number through GSM. This will reduce on the time delay that is previously caused by the former manual system where workers are sent out to drive around manually inspecting street lights. Fault detection in streetlights is a major problem, therefore I have designed a system which automatically monitors the status of streetlights then alerts the technician by using GSM to send a message to his mobile phone.