IOT Streetlight Controller System

1. INTRODUCTION:

Here we propose an IOT based street light monitoring and controlling system to ensure,
low power consumption, consumption monitoring, instant faulty light detection and light
dimming as per external lighting conditions. Our proposed system consists of smart
street lights that have external light sensing that automatically turns on at desired
intensity based on amount of lighting needed. The system also allows the
controller/monitoring person to check estimate power consumptions as per current
intensity of light as well as predict monthly power consumption. Also each of the unit
has load sensing functionality that allows it to detect if the light has a fault. It then
automatically flags that light is faulty and this data is sent over to the IOT monitoring
system so that action can be taken to fix it. We here use IOT Gecko IOT development
platform for the online system using the IOT gecko API to transmit data and display
online.

The internet and information technologies have ushered in a new era. The Internet of
Things (IoT) connects each device to the Internet (devices that can connect to the
Internet), and one device completes an integrated job with another device via data
transmission [3]. Home automation is one example of successful implementation of IoT.
Furthermore, automation is a significant part of modern society and our everyday lives.
As a result, we can observe that the old systems that surround us are rapidly altering to
make our lives simpler. We have seen how much energy, particularly electricity, is
wasted in Bangladesh's major cities. According to a report, streetlights account for 30%-
35% percent of a city's overall power usage [4]. Even in this age of information
technology, streetlights in Bangladesh are turned ON and OFF in a conventional
manner. As a result, from the investigation on Chattogram streets we observe that the
streetlights are kept turned on till noon 12 p.m. We've concluded that relying on
technology to make Bangladesh's cities green and sustainable would be necessary,
thus we're aiming to build green

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2. LITERATURE REVIEW:

Hannan et al. in their both works [5, 6] developed a LDR and ultrasonic sensors-based
street lighting system based on real-time data where they did not mention in which
method they collected data while analyzing their results and where to store real-time
data in their prototype. Alex et al. [7] used ZIGBEE and sensors to investigate an energy
efficient intelligent street lighting system. To improve the efficiency of the street lighting
system, ZIGBEE and sensors were used. ZIGBEE and sensors are responsible for the
system's low power usage. The communication range of ZIGBEE, on the other hand, is
around 50 meters. As a result, it is inconvenient to use. Bhairi et al. [8] looked into smart
solar Light Emitting Diode (LED) streetlight which is programmed to turn off
automatically during the day and only turn on at night. During severe rains or terrible
weather, the light will glow at 30% brightness, but if there is a person or automobile
nearby, it will illuminate at 100% brightness. Here, there isn't any form of error-detection
mechanism. Few studies [9-12] analyzed the LOD (Light of Demand) mechanism with
motion detectors, intensity control systems, AC voltage regulators and controllers,
including AC-AC buck converters, multi-taped autotransformers, and high

(Fig.1.a, and b). A detailed documentation of our investigation covering various national
news articles, media reports and our field survey has been added to Appendix I for
better understanding of the readers of this study. Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) on
our proposed system which will burn automatically when there is no sunlight and

The Internet Of Things Has Made It Possible To Digitally Interface Various Electronic
Devices And To Transfer Data And Other Information From One Device To Another
Device Via Network.

In This System Also, Every Device Which Is To Be Controlled By The Internet Of Things
Is Connected Together Through The Same Network. The Network Can Be Local Area
Network Or Any Local Wi-Fi As Well. A Wi-Fi Module Can Also Be Used With This
System To Control And Monitor All The Street Lights Wirelessly. With The Help Of This
Wi-Fi Module, Users Can Decide Which Task The System Has To Perform And Can
Then Send Those Instructions From Anywhere In The World.

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The Most Important Thing in The Street Light Monitoring System Is To Install It With A
Microcontroller Which Will Be Instructing The Devices To Perform Their Tasks. Various
Microcontrollers That We Can Use Are Node MCU, Arduino UNO and Raspberry Pi.
These Microcontrollers Are Quite Cheap and Have a Lower Power Consumption as
Well.

The Microcontroller Will Be Able to Control Various Sensors with A Wi-Fi Module. It Will
Also Control LEDs As Well Depending on The Movement of The Objects on The
Streets.

The Street Light Monitoring System Can Be Operated Manually And Automatically As
Well. The Microcontroller Will Be Able to Switch ON And OFF The Street Lights At
Required Time And Will Also Be Able To Control The Intensity Of The Street Lights
According To The Need. From This Blog We Can Conclude That Implementation Of This
Street Light Monitoring System Using IoT Will Be Of Great Help As It Eliminates Efforts
Of Manually Operating The Street Lights And Other Electronic Equipment. This System
Is Power Efficient, Cost Efficient and Also Makes It Possible To Operate Electronic
Devices And Sensors Wirelessly If There Is An Internet Connection Available. This
System Does Not Require Any Kind of Extra Maintenance as Compared to The Existing
System. The Internet of Things Is Definitely the Key to Develop the World in A Well
Organized Manner

In This System Also, Every Device Which Is To Be Controlled By The Internet Of Things
Is Connected Together Through The Same Network. The Network Can Be Local Area
Network Or Any Local Wi-Fi As Well. A Wi-Fi Module Can Also Be Used With This
System To Control And Monitor All The Street Lights Wirelessly. With The Help Of This
Wi-Fi Module, Users Can Decide Which Task The System Has To Perform And Can
Then Send Those Instructions From Anywhere In The World.

The Internet Of Things Has Made It Possible To Digitally Interface Various Electronic
Devices And To Transfer Data And Other Information From One Device To Another De-
vice Via Network. In This System Also, Every Device Which Is To Be Controlled By The
Internet Of Things Is Connected Together Through The Same Network. The Network
Can Be Local Area Network Or Any Local Wi-Fi As Well. A Wi-Fi Module Can Also Be
Used With This System To Control And Monitor All The Street Lights Wirelessly. With
The Help Of This Wi-Fi Module, Users Can Decide Which Task The System Has To Per-
form And Can Then Send Those Instructions From Anywhere In The World.

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Here two kinds of sensors will be used which are light sensor and photoelectric sensor.
The light sensor will detect darkness to activate the ON/OFF switch, so the streetlights
will be ready to turn on and the photoelectric sensor will detect movement to activate
the streetlights. LDR, which varies according to the amount of light falling on its surface,
this gives an induction for whether it is a day-night time, the photoelectric sensors are
placed on the side of the road, which can be controlled by microcontroller PIC16f877A.
If any object crosses the photoelectric beam, a particular light will be automatically ON.
By using this as a basic principle, the intelligent system has been designed for the per-
fect usage of streetlights in any place.

The project represents a new cost-effective solution for street light control systems. The
control system consists of control circuitry, internet and electrical devices. The system
also includes the client-server mechanism where a user can directly interact with the
web-based application to monitor the Streetlight of any place from a single position. The
base server will run a Java Web Application which will maintain whole street light of
Country/State/City. Street light controller will receive that information, and it will decode
and find the particular streetlight which will set using relay circuit, the notification came it
will then decode and finds the appropriate streetlight which needs to put ON/OFF using
relay circuit [4].

In this paper it senses the Infrared from the surrounding and check whether the lights
needs to be ON or not as per the intensity value. This system will eliminate the system
of manual control as the system will cause to light up when the infrared value become
less than our defined value. Also, the light will automatically switch OFF when detected
value of infrared become greater than the defined value. This system works in 2 forms,
First, for highways Second for the Streets. For highways the lights remain OFF as long
as the motion of the object is detected. If motion is detected the light will be in ON state
and Glows for specific time interval. In second form the lights do not remain in OFF
state, instead they remain ON but in less intensity [8].

This paper consists of a single observation station at the cloud to control the overall
street lights in a region. It is a modular system which is expandable easily. The control-
ling terminal observes the condition of street lights for its perfect working. The sensors
are used to control the dim/bright of the street lights based on the intensity of the sun-
light. The information about the sensors will be sent using the wireless network to the
base station for processing data. During malfunction, the service engineer is informed
through graphical user interface and corrective actions are performed [9].

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systems do overcome the problems of HID based systems by using the LED, but are
not able to save that much amount of energy as required also they are time based, also
in seasons like monsoon the surroundings are remains dark compared to usual days. In
Winters there is a fog and if the lights are less it could result into a great accident or
catastrophe. Therefore, still some improvements in these systems are needed. Time in-
terval-based systems consider the time slot as an edge, but it actually is a drawback as
it could not work in all conditions. As above discussed, it creates problems during Bad
weather changes, it needs to be changed if it is needs to be implemented globally or in
India where the weather differs the most from Jammu to Thiruvananthapuram. Also, if
any, hardware failure or fault occurs, it could be costly to solve it.

impracticable. The current trend is the introduction of automation and remote manage-
ment solutions to control street lighting. The present street lightning framework have
many problems which needs to be worked upon. The Problem with the present frame-
work is that it requires human intervention to make system to operate. In Bad weather
condition, the timing of street light ON/OFF differ discernibly which is one of the main
problems of the present street lights systems. Due to human intervention sometimes
street lights are ON most of the day without any purpose because these are manually
operable and this cause huge amount of power loss meaninglessly. With the wide ac-
ceptability of energy conserving and sustaining technologies like light emitting diode
(LED) lights and quick response system, dependable working, and power saving street
lighting system getting into reality. The reason for this is to showcase the Smart auto-
mated Street Lighting System. The only aim of this research paper is to describe an au-
tomated lighting framework which focuses on the energy saving and reducing human in-
tervention, and also to construct a smart street lighting system with sensors and con-
trollers, to outline an automated lighting system with particular methodology plan, which
makes the system more user friendly and that requires less involvement of manpower.

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3. PROPOSED SYSTEM

So, there were the several problems which need to be worked upon in former system.
This can be done by creating a new system which is Automated, Energy conserving and
cheap. Our system works in a similar fashion first, it senses the sound wave produced
by the object from the surroundings and check whether the lights needs to be ON or not
as per the intensity value. This system will eliminate the system of manual control as the
system will cause to light up when the ultrasonic value become less than our defined
value. Also, the light will automatically switch OFF when detected value of ultrasonic be-
come greater than the defined value. This system works for university roads, Streets,
hotel & mall parking area. In this system the lights do not remain in OFF state, instead
they remain ON but in less intensity. Again, if the motion is detected here the intensity of
light become greater for the particular time interval. This is dimming effect created by
our system. Here many systems use IR sensor it will not be more efficient as like the ul-
trasonic sensor it will give the distance value between the detected object and the sen-
sor. Here we use CF bulb for the lighting purpose. Then the current and voltage con-
sumed by the bulb can be measured using current and the potential transformer. The
consumed current and voltage reading can be stored in the cloud. Here we using cloud
is that we need not to enter the data manually the cloud will update the data automati-
cally in daily manner. Then we are using android app in two ways. One for viewing the
stored data in the cloud. Another way for if we find wastage of light in roads then we can
ON/OFF the whole system by using this android app.

4.1 Components of the proposed system

4.1.1 Hardware Module
• Arduino
• Ultrasonic sensor
• LDR
• Node MCU
• Light
• relay

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4. Implementation

The idea of this project is to give information about the IOT SMART STREET LIGHT
SYSTEM. So, we have chosen the THING SPEAK technology to get more control over
the street lighting. In this project we are interfacing NODEMCU ESP8266, RELAY &LDR
SENSOR. India facing one of the major Problem is maintenance of street lights. In India
street lights are maintained manually, it is found that there is wastage of power by oper-
ating the street lights due to manual operations like switch on the light.

at day time. To reduce the manual errors by controlling, implementation is done using
Thing speak for effective communication.

3.3 Power Supply

Power supply is a reference to a source of electrical power. A device or system that

supplies electrical or other types of energy to an output load or group of loads is called a
power supply unit or PSU. The term is most commonly applied to electrical energy sup-
plies, less often to mechanical ones, and rarely to others. This power supply section is
required to convert AC signal to DC signal and also to reduce the amplitude of the sig-
nal. The available voltage signal from the main is 230V/50Hz which is an AC voltage,
but the required is DC voltage with the amplitude of +5V and +12V for varies applica-
tions.

3.4 NODEMCUESP8266

The Node MCU (Node Micro Controller Unit) is an opensource software and hardware
development environment that is built around a very inexpensive System-on-a-Chip
(SoC) called the ESP8266. And, you have to program it in low-level machine instruc-
tions that can be interpreted by the chip hardware.

The ESP-8266 may be a low-cost Wi-Fi microchip with full TCP/IP Transfer control pro-
tocol/ Internet protocol). It makes the web connectivity possible for the IOT panel.
ESP8266 offers a whole and self-contained W-Fi.
 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n, supporting WPA/WPA2).
 General-purpose input/output (16 GPIO).

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 Inter-Integrated Circuit (I²C) serial communication protocol.
 Analog-to-digital conversion (10-bit ADC).
 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) serial communication protocol

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3.5 LDR sensor

Photo resistors, also known as light dependent resistors (LDR), are light sensitive de-
vices most often used to indicate the presence or absence of light, or to measure the
light intensity. The sensor that can be used to detect light is an LDR. Since the LDR
gives out an analog voltage, it is connected to the analog input pin on the Arduino. The
Arduino, with its built-in ADC (analog-to-digital converter), then converts the analog volt-
age (from 0-5V) into a digital value in the range of (0-1023).

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3.6 Relay Board

Relay boards are computer boards with an array of relays and switches. They have in-
put and output terminals and are designed to control the voltage supply. Relay boards
provide independently programmable, real-time control for each of several onboard re-
lay channels. A relay is an electrically operated switch that can be turned ON or OFF,
letting the current go through or not, and can be controlled with low voltages, like the 5V
provided by the Node MCU pins. Controlling a relay module with the Node MCU is as
simple as controlling any other output. A relay is usually an electromechanical device
that is actuated by an electrical current.

The current flowing in one circuit causes the opening or closing of another circuit. Re -
lays are like remote control switches and are used in many applications because of their
relative simplicity, long life, and proven high reliability. Although relays are generally as-
sociated with electrical circuitry, there are many other types, such as pneumatic and hy-
draulic. Input may be electrical and output directly mechanical, or vice versa. Relays are
mainly made up for two basic operations.

One is low voltage application and the other is high voltage. For low voltage applica-
tions, more preference will be given to reduce the noise of the whole circuit. For high
voltage applications, they are mainly designed to reduce a phenomenon called arcing

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3.7 Bulb LEDs

use much less energy than incandescent bulbs because diode light is much more effi-
cient, power-wise, than filament light. LED bulbs use more than 75% less energy than
incandescent lighting. Another advantage of LEDs is the “hassle factor.” LEDs last a lot
longer than a regular bulb.

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4.1 Arduino IDE

The Arduino Software (IDE) is an open-source software and it makes easy to the code
and upload it to the board. I t runs on the different plant from Windows, MAC OS, Linux.
The environment is written in Java and before running the IDE Java software to be in-
stalled on the machine this software can be used with any Arduino board.

4.2 Thingspeak

ESP8266 Thingspeak is an analytic IoT platform service that allows you to aggregate,
visualize and analyse live data streams in the cloud.

ThingSpeak is an open wellspring of web of things (IoT) utility and API to purchase and
recover records from issues abuse the hypertext move convention and MQTT conven-
tion over internet or through a near to space organize.

ThingSpeak licenses the presentation of detecting component work programs, area fol-
lowing bundles, and an informal community of things with standing updates.

5. Advantages
 Maintenance cost reduction
 Reduction of light pollution
 Energy saving
 Lightning system also reduces crime say murder, theft and plenty of more to a great-
extend.
 Reduction of man power
 Major advantages of street lightning include prevention of the accidents and increase
in the safety

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6. Working

Internet of Things is a term of opening new possibilities of interacting with electronic de-
vices by digitally interfacing them possibly providing information in a very simple user-
friendly format to a smart device and connected to the same network as the rest of the
system.
In this system, every device is required to be operate in the basis of IoT, are connected
to each other on the same network.
The system architecture is adaptive system and it consists LDR sensors, NODEMCU
ESP8266, relay, Bulb. In this system NODEMCU microcontroller acts as the brain of the
entire system.
All the sensors used in this system are connected to micro controller. LDR is light de-
pendent resistor.
When the day time sunlight falls on it, its resistance decreases and makes the light to
switch off.
When the night time, light do not fall on the sensor, so its resistance increases and trig-
gers the light to switch On.
Relay acts an automatic switch and electromagnetic switch it is connected to the micro
controller by relay driver. It is highly reliable and automatically switches ON and OFF the
lights.

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5. EXISTING SYSTEM

The current system of street lights consists of manual controls which need Human in-
tervention to work upon. This cause the loss of energy due to manual control, or the use
of outdated technology. These systems are designed in such a way that they could re-
duce their intensity of light and save energy as much as possible. These systems are
made to use of HID (High Intensity Discharge). Due to manual system one needs to turn
the street lights ON or there is a time allotted during which the intensity of the system
keeps on high and then turns the lights OFF when the sun rises up. Intensity reduction
starts at during dawn when it is not much dark and there is not much traffic and is
switched OFF when the light is totally visible in the morning. Mostly use IR (Infrared
Ray) sensors to detect vehicles presence. Existing.

the surroundings. Also, the light remains OFF or in Dim state as long as the motion is
not detected. Once the motion is detected the lights comes to ON or bright state. This
system is solely made for using in a wide scale project. Also, it is very cheap. This re-
search paper explains the construction of Automated street light system with its working
via flow diagram and circuit diagram. Circuit works properly and make lights to be in
ON/OFF state. LDR and ultrasonic sensor are the two main components of the circuit
design. If the components work properly and proper criteria for these components are
met than the system works properly and produce desired result. With help of micro con-
troller command, the lights glow when it is dark and vehicle passes by. Also, the micro-
controller uses the embedded C code which is extremely fast language. The former sys-
tem code is also optimized according to our system design and to meet the system re-
quirements. The LDR sense visible light. The ultrasonic sensor as it senses till 11 me-
ters of distance. So, this make system more reliable.

updated in the cloud automatically. If the presence of vehicle is not detected then it
waits for the vehicle and LED will glow at low intensity then the Arduino will show ‘0’
state of the ultrasonic sensor at serial monitoring and it is updated in the cloud and then
the process will end.

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6. METHODOLOGY
Our system is developed on two primary components: hardware and software (admin
panel). Here, we'll take some ideas about our system's hardware and use a block
diagram and flow chart to try to understand how our system works by integrating the
software with the hardware. A. Hardware Specifications The Arduino Nano served as
the system's hardware brain. The AT mega 326 microcontroller has 14 digital pins, 8
analog pins, and a clock speed of 16 MHZ. We used ultrasonic sensors to detect the
presence of any vehicle or person on the road. The ultrasonic sensor has 4 pins,
positive, negative, trigger and echo. LDR is used to see the brightness of the street light
and identify the presence of sunshine. We've utilized esp8266 as a Wi-Fi module to link
our hardware system to the control room over the internet. LED bulbs are the most
modern bulbs at present. It saves 75% of the energy used by conventional lights and
lasts 25 times longer. We used current sensors to monitor AC and DC currents and offer
electrical isolation between the sensor's output and the circuit being examined &
potential meter that divide a higher voltage by a predetermined ratio based on the
electrical components to produce a lower output voltage. We used some more
components those are crucial to our system, but the above are the most significant.

B. Block Diagram and Flow Chart of the model:

As seen in the block diagram, the Arduino Nano is the central system or brain. By
charging the battery through a solar or grid, it provides a power supply input as well as a
power consumption checker, light intensity checker, ultrasonic sensor (No.1-6), and
thermistor input data to Arduino Nano. The Arduino Nano, on the other hand, collects all
of that data and controls the bulbs using switching sockets. Additionally, the data is sent
to the system for monitoring through Wi-Fi. If necessary, it collects input from the control
room and delivers it to the Arduino Nano through Wi-Fi. The Arduino Nano re-gives the
streetlights instructions from the control room via a switching connector. An IoT report is
made by transmitting all of the data servers and employing the most up-to-date
monitoring and regulating. We've explained how our hardware works using the block
diagram in Fig 2. Fig.3 explains on how hardware and software interact and function
together as flowchart.

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FIG.2. Block diagram of the system we proposed

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FIG.3. Flow chart of the system we proposed.

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7. FEATURES OF THE PROPOSED MODEL

Our lab prototype was designed to tackle a wide range of real-world issues. Features
that our proposed model possess are- Sunlight diagnosis. In the experiment, we first
tested whether our system can detect sunlight.

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 Fig.4. Sunlight detection with the help of LDR In Fig.4 (a), we can see the LDR sensor
can detect the lab's electric light, as seen in the model in Fig.4 (a). As a result, all of our
model's streetlights have been turned off. Also we can see that our admin panel is dis-
playing the intensity of the sunlight, which is at 42% to create an artificial night. Subse-
quently, we covered the LDR with a pen cap in the Fig
4 (b). In the admin panel, we can see that the sun's intensity is now set at 0 percent and
all of our street lights have been successfully turned on automatically. We can also see
the brightness of each light in the admin panel. Determine real-time current consump-
tion of all sensors. Fig.5 shows how much electricity is consumed when our system is
turned on, as well as the current weather temperature

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Real-time error detection. Because we conducted this experiment in the lab, our system
artificially manufactured an error. Looking at our model and admin panel, we can see
the condition before artificially producing the error in the Fig.6 (a). We are covered the
LDR sensor on our Street Light 3 to produce a fake error when the LDR sensor can't de-
tect the street light. Then our admin panel will see that the system has successfully
demonstrated that street light number 3 is damaged, yet the light is on in Fig.6 (b).

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Testing ultrasonic sensors. Ultrasonic sensors are used in our system to detect if there
aren't any cars in the region of the road lights. If a car approaches, the brightness of the
street lights in that zone will significantly rise. This can be seen in the Fig.7. When there
were no automobiles, the street lights were turned off. As we can observe in the admin
panel, when we park a bus in front of ultrasonic, the brightness of the street lights is
substantially higher than other street lights (Fig.7.b). In this way, it is possible to reduce
power waste.

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Fig.7. Ultrasonic sensor in Light 3 detects a car (a) and the brightness of the Light 3 has
instantly increased (b) Data storing. Our system can record all of the information in the
form of tables, including date and time, as shown in the Fig.8 so that we may do addi -
tional studies on this in the future.

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8. RESULT & DISCUSSION
Following our lab experiment, the focus is on attempting to shed light on how to save
money and power by replacing the traditional street lighting system with the system we
have constructed. From the Chittagong City Corporation's (CCC) website, description of
different types of streetlights, namely, sodium lights, 100 watts bulbs, halogen bulbs,
metal halide bulbs, tube lights, totaling 33,750 incandescent street lights can be seen
[15]. As well as, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), Dhaka South City Corporation
(DSCC), Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) has 46,410, 54,966 and 2,474 LED
streetlights respectively [16, 17, 18]. We calculate and compare energy consumption
and energy cost in these four city corporations in three scenarios. Scenario 1: We
estimated all of CCC’s 33,750 streetlights at 100 watts (W) sodium lights to see how
much the existing system costs. Most of the time, streetlights are used for 12 hours a
day. For a 100W sodium streetlight, consumption for 12 hours is 1.2 kWh. Per unit cost
is 7.70 TK/kWh [12]. So daily Electricity cost for a single 100W sodium streetlight is (1.2
kWh*7.70) = 9.24 TK Hence, total energy consumption is = (1.2*33750) = 40500KW =
40.5MW.
None of DNCC, DSCC and NCC has sodium lights as streetlight in their existing
system. Hence, Scenario 1 is not applicable for these three city corporations. Scenario
2: if we replace the existing 100W sodium lights of CCC with 40W LED lights,
consumption of power for 12 hours will be 0.48 kWh and daily electricity cost is 3.70 TK.
Hence, total energy consumption with 100% brightness, For 33750 no’s LED light in
CCC is 16.2 MW For 46410 no’s LED light in DNCC is 22.3 MW For 54966 no’s LED
light in DSCC is 26.4 MW and For 2474 no’s LED light in NCC is 1.2 MW Scenario 3: As
our model would dim the brightness of LED streetlights in absence or less congestion of
traffic, say for example, lights would be in dimming condition on 50% of its overall active
time as traffic congestion is lesser during the midnight to dawn hours. For a 40W LED
Streetlight in CCC, considering 50% of dimming condition, the power consumption of a
light should be half, which is approx. 20W per light. Hence, consumption for 12 hours is
0.24 kWh, daily Electricity cost is 1.85 and the total energy consumption with 50%
brightness, For 33750 no’s LED light in CCC light is 8.1 MW. For 46410 no’s LED light
in DNCC is 11.15 MW For 54966 no’s LED light in DSCC is 13.2 MW and For 2474 no’s
LED light in NCC is 0.6 MW.

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From Table 1, we can see the comparison between electricity consumption among the
existing 100W sodium street lighting system and two other discussed options in CCC in
accordance with our proposed model.

In Table 2, we showed the corresponding energy costs for all the three scenarios
discussed-above in terms of day, month and year.

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According to our calculations, if LED light with 100% brightness burn for 12 hours, it can
save approximately 60% electricity in compare to the conventional existing system in
CCC [40.5MW - 16.2MW = 24.3MW, (24.3/40.5) x 100 = 60%] and hence saving 60%
money as well. Since our system has a brightness control system, it is possible to save
even 5% - 8% more on both electricity and money standards. Fig.9 illustrates the
graphical representation of our cost comparison in CCC with a yearly saving of roughly
60 million TK just by replacing 100W sodium light to 40W LED in 100% brightness
condition using the proposed system in this study. Study [19] reveals wastage of money
worth 3.4 million TK per month also supports the results we get from our calculation.

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9. CONCLUSION
We presented and discussed the feasibility of IoT-based streetlight monitoring, control-
ling and error detecting system specially designed for major cities in Bangladesh. Our
proposed system has demonstrated strong potential in tackling enormous electricity
waste due to the existing improper and faulty streetlight system and provides a sophisti-
cated way to monitor the whole city’s streetlight management. With the adaptation of
such system we can ensure to build a sustainable city in near future.

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