AN ADVANCEMENT AND INVESTIGATION ON REAL TIME POWERMANAGEMENT FOR THE STREETLIGHT SYSTEM

Abstract

Street lighting in most of the rural and urban areas in India are not energy efficient. As it is the indispensable part of the rural and urban infrastructure. Hence there is tremendous potential for the improvement and proper maintenance without altering present street lighting system. This paper focuses on the problems like power saving, power theft, security, and immediate response to problems. Here we suggest a system which can monitor and control power continuously. An experimental system of wireless sensor network can be developed to study the feasibility for streetlight monitoring and control system. It also helps to design a highly secured and efficient system which can save power, as is the prime demand to meet the present increasing power needs. The important phenomenon of the paper is to consider the prime things while designing new system, that can read, corrects and as well as control utilization of power efficiently. This system consists of a base station (also called as control center) and a sensor node at each of the remote station (also called as feeder enable box). The base station monitors and controls all streetlights at real-time. This paper presents a modern and secured street lighting control system with embedded system based AC regulator system for lighting applications. The system guarantees energy savings due to power dimming options to avoid unnecessary glowing of bulbs during night hours according to traffic safety, lighting comfort and ON OFF timings in the morning & evening hours.