Smart Solar-Powered Street Light Monitoring and Control System

Solar street lights are raised light sources which are powered by photovoltaic panels generally mounted on the lighting structure or integrated in the pole itself. The photovoltaic panels charge a rechargeable battery, which power a fluorescent or LED lamp during the night. The solar panel is one of the most important parts of solar street lights, as the solar panels will convert solar energy into electricity. Solar panel are varies from wattage systems. LED is usually used as lighting source of modern solar street light, as the LED will provide much higher Lumens. The project is developed for automatic street lights maintenance and to reduce power consumption. The application is designed in such a way that we place light sensors in all street light circuit, which is responsible to switch on and off automatically, once the lights are switched on current sensors placed at every street light circuits are responsible to report problem status to the centralized system, with help of GSM module attached with the circuit. The status is available in the centralized system, the work man now can easily locate the particular light to take care which minimize the time to search it and repair. The research provides a low cost infrastructure for managing street lighting system. Energy consumption can be controlled making it eco-friendly in usage.