A PROJECT REPORT ON

AUTOMATIC STREET LIGHT

CONTROLLER
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree
of Bachelor of Technology
In
ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Submitted By

AMRITPAL SINGH Enrollment No.12020009002078

Under the guidance of

PROF. ABIR CHATTERJEE
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT, KOLKATA

University Area, Plot No. III – B/5, New Town, Action Area – III, Kolkata – 700160.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to take this opportunity to thank and acknowledge with due courtesy everyone
whose cooperation and encouragement throughout the ongoing course of this project remains
invaluable to us.

We are sincerely grateful to our guide Prof. ABIR CHATTERJEE of the Department of
Electronics & Communication Engineering, UEM, Kolkata, for his wisdom, guidance and
inspiration that helped us to go through with this project and take it to where it stands now.

We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to Prof. Abir Chatterjee (HOD),
Electronics & Communication Engineering, UEM, Kolkata and all other departmental
faculties for their ever-present assistant and encouragement.

Last but not the least, we would like to extend our warm regards to our families and peers
who have kept supporting us and always had faith in our work.

AMRITPAL SINGH

PROF. ABIR CHATTERJEE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER – 1: OBJECTIVES

1.1 OBJECTIVES

1.2 ARDUINO UNO

1.3 IR SENSOR

1.4 SIGNIFICANCE

CHAPTER – 2: PROPOSED SOLUTION/WORK DONE

2.1 CODE USED

CHAPTER – 3: PENDING WORK & FUTURE SCOPE

CHAPTER – 4: PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCES
ABSTRACT:

Street Light Control System which operates automatically is not only easiest
but also the intelligent system. This system can be set to operate in
automatic mode, which regulates the streetlight according to brightness and
dimness Algorithm and light intensity. This control can make a reasonable
adjustment according to the seasonal variation. We can take the initiative to
control streetlights through PC monitor terminal. This street light system
also includes a time cut-out function, and an automatic control pattern for
even more electricity conserving, when vehicles pass by, the light will turn
on automatically, later turn off. This design can save a great amount of
electricity compared to streetlamps that keep alight during nights. The
design implements traffic flow magnitude statistics without adding any
hardware, facilitating transportation condition information collecting. The
system can be widely applied in all places which need timely control such as
streets, stations, mining, schools, and electricity sectors and so on. In
addition, the system integrates a digital temperature and humidity sensor,
not only monitoring the streetlight but also temperature and humidity. The
core of the system is constructed based on the microcontroller Arduino
UNO.
CHAPTER – 1: OBJECTIVES:

● OBJECTIVES

The street light can be controlled in the presence or absence of vehicle to

reduce the wastage of energy.We need to save or conserve energy because
most of the energy sources we depend on, like coal and natural gas can’t be
replaced. Once we use them up, they are gone forever. Saving electrical
power is very important, instead of using the power in unnecessary times it
should be switched off.In any city ‘Street Light’ is one of the major
electrical power consuming factors. Most of the time we see street lights are
on even after sunrise thus wasting lot of energy. In this project we are
avoiding the problem by having an automatic system which turns on and off
the street lights at given time or when ambient light falls below a specific
intensity By using this system manual works are removed. The proposed
work is accomplished by using Arduino UNO and sensors that will control
the electricity based on night and object's detection. Meanwhile, a counter is
set that will count the number of objects passed through the road. The beauty
of the proposed work is that the wastage of unused electricity can be
reduced.
The aim of this project is to design a street light control system using
Arduino UNO, which automatically turns on or of the street lights by
detecting the movement of vehicles. The working of the project is explained
here. When there is not any vehicle in front of the IR sensor module, the
receiver can’t get any infrared signal So the circuit remain in open loop
condition and the lights are in of condition. When there is any vehicle in front
of the IR sensor module, the receiver get the infrared signal. So the circuit is
in close loop condition and the lights are in on condition with respect to the
IR module. If the car blocks the first IR sensor, the first three LEDs are
turned ON by the microcontroller. As the car moves forward and blocks the
second IR sensor, the corresponding next three LEDs will be turned ON and
the first LED of the previous set is turned OFF. The process continues this
way for all the IR Sensors and LEDs
ARDUINO UNO

It is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328. Arduino is an

open-source, prototyping platform and its simplicity makes it ideal for
hobbyists or novice to use as well as professionals. The Arduino Uno has 14
digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog
inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an
ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the
microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power
it with AC-toDC adapter or battery to get started.

Fig1: Arduino Uno Board.

IR Sensor
An infrared sensor is an electronic device that emits in order to sense some
aspects of the surroundings. An IR sensor can measure the heat of an object
as well as detects the motion as well as the presence of an object due to
intervention or interruption. These type of sensors measure only infrared
radiation, rather than emitting it that is called as a passive IR sensor. Usually
in the infrared spectrum, all the objects radiate some form of thermal
radiations. These types of radiations are invisible to our eyes that can be
detected by an infrared sensor. The emitter is simply an IR LED (Light
Emitting Diode) and the detector is simply an IR photodiode which is
sensitive to IR light of the same wavelength as that emitted by the IR LED.
When IR light falls on the photodiode, the resistances and these output
voltages, change in proportion to the magnitude of the IR light received. An
IR sensor is a device which detects IR radiation falling on it. There are
numerous types of IR sensors that are built and can be built depending on the
application. Proximity sensors (Used in Touch Screen phones and Edge
Avoiding Robots), contrast sensors (Used in Line Following Robots) and
obstruction counters/sensors (Used for counting goods and in Burglar
Alarms) are some examples, which use IR sensors.

Fig2: IR Sensor.
SIGNIFICANCE:

The proposed idea is to detect moving objects on the road, utilizes motion sensor
which can detect objects, in this case the obstacles are vehicles or human beings.
However ,the main aim of Smart Street light project is to reduce the power
consumption whenever there is no vehicle or human movements on the road.

Fig3:Street Lighting System.

CHAPTER – 2:

PROPOSED SOLUTION/WORK DONE

Our smart street light system consists of an LED light, a motion

sensor and an Arduino Uno. The lights turn on when pedestrians
and vehicles come and turn off or reduce power when there is
no one. It will be difficult for pedestrians and drivers of vehicles
to distinguish our smart street lamps and the conventional street
lights, since our street lamps all turn on before they come. The
present status of our smart street light project is as under:

Table 1:

Vehicle Position LEDs In First Row LEDs In Second Row

No Vehicle OFF OFF

In Front Of First IR ON OFF
In Front Of Second IR OFF ON
In Front Of Both IR ON ON

Fig4: Working of the IR Sensor when obstacle arrives.

2.1 CODE USED:

int IRSensor = 2;

int LED = 13;

void setup()

pinMode (IRSensor , INPUT);

pinMode (LED , OUTPUT);

void loop()

int statusSensor = digitalRead (IRSensor);

if (statusSensor == 1)

digitalWrite(LED,LOW);

else

digitalWrite(LED,HIGH);

}
Fig5: Circuit Diagram

CHAPTER – 3:

PENDING WORK & FUTURE SCOPE

• Pole damage detection with the addition of a suitable sensor can

be implemented.

• Solar panel implementation.

• Using PCB can decrease the Cost.

CHAPTER – 4:

PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS

This project of AUTOMATIC STREET LIGHTS is a cost effective,

practical, eco-friendly and the safest way to save energy. It clearly tackles the
two problems that world is facing today, saving of energy and also disposal
of incandescent lamps, very efficiently. According to statistical data we can
save more that 40 % of electrical energy that is now consumed by the
highways. Initial cost and maintenance can be a draw back of this project.
With the advances in technology and good resource planning the cost of
the project can be cut down and also with the use of good equipment the
maintenance can also be reduced in terms of periodic checks. The LEDs have
long life, emit cool light, donor have any toxic material and can be used for
switching. For these reasons our project presents far more advantages which
can over shadow the present limitations. Keeping in view the long term
benefits and the initial cost would never be a problem as the investment
return time is very less. The project has scope in various other applications
like for providing lighting in industries, campuses and parking lots of huge
shopping mall.This can also be used for surveillance in corporate campuses
and industry.

Fig6: Smart Street Lighting.

BIBLIOGRAPHY / REFERENCES:

• International Journal of Innovative Research in Science,

Engineering and Technology (An ISO 3297: 2007 Certified
Organization) Vol. 3, Issue 2, February 2014 Copyright to
IJIRSET www.ijirset.com 9220 Survey on Street Lighting System
Based On Vehicle Movements K.Santha Sheela , S.Padmadevi ,
P.G. Student, Department of Computer Engineering, Velammal
College Of Engineering And Technology ,Madurai, India
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering,
Velammal College Of Engineering And Technology, Madurai,
India.
• International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and
Communication Engineering Vol. 9, Issue 2, February 2020
Copyright to IJARCCE DOI 10.17148/IJARCCE.2020.9205 21
Automatic Street Light System Saurabh Kadam1 , Anupam Teli ,
Atharva Sakpal , Vijaya Chavan4 Student, Computer
Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Navi Mumbai, India , Lecturer,
Computer Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Navi Mumbai, India.