Streetlight Monitoring System IOT Project
Objective
To create a smart street light monitoring system based on Internet of Things (IoT) using Raspberry-pi to make street lighting more efficient, safe and affordable.
Project Overview
Street light is the important part and cautious need for any institution, city, municipality during night times. The unfortunate thing is that, everybody able to utilize the outcome of the streetlight, but too much cost and maintenance makes the traditional street light system as not efficient. From traditional system, nowadays we are moving towards a smart street light system, where it is connected through the internet. This new system increases the efficiency, safety and low wastage of energy.
Existing System
Existing street light monitoring and controlling system focuses on reducing power consumption and fault detections without considering the traffic rate. It considers daily power usage, faulty things happening in the environment. The existing system architecture is shown in below figure.
Working Principle
- In the street light environment, regular routine works will be happen. Additional to routine regular works, the sensor integrated with street light will detect the power level and faulty things.
- All the activities that happening will be transferred to the web server through internet. This digital data is stored in the database for future analysis.
- The normal range power level will be stored in the database. If incoming digital power level data is mismatched from the normal power level, then this data will be used to control the power level in the street light.
- Similarly faulty activities also notified in the user interface for the further action by the responsible persons.
Advantages
- Reduce the energy wastage by monitoring the power level.
- Faulty activities avoided and rectified quickly.
Disadvantages
- It does not consider the traffic level.
- It does not consider the latest mobile application need and usage level by common people.
Proposed System
The proposed system smart street light monitoring and controlling system focus on reducing power consumption and fault detection’s with considering the traffic rate in that environment. All the reporting is connected to the mobile application. The proposed system architecture is shown in following figure.
Working Principle
- In the smart street light environment, additional to regular routine works, 3 sensors fitted for the purpose of traffic detection, power level detection and faulty activity detector.
- In additional to an existing system, traffic level detector is used to monitor the traffic level in the environment and based on that level it controls the energy level.
- All the activities are converted to report format and this information is displayed in the mobile application as graphical format.
Advantages
- Controls and monitors the light energy based on traffic level.
- Graphical reporting in mobile application access, allows efficient monitoring and controlling.
Components / Software /Hardware’s Required:
- Python
- Web Server
- MySQL Database
- GUI, User Interface
- Raspberry-pi
- Street Light
- Traffic Monitoring Sensor
- Android
