Abstract:
Street lighting has become an essential commodity for human life as it provides lighting in cities, towns and most especially on roads to reduce risk of accidents at night. Though necessary, streetlight systems not properly managed can result in risk of accidents, excessive loss of energy, financial losses and dissatisfaction of customers. This paper proposes a smart system to manage streetlight operation, relying on sensors and internet of things technologies. The proposed smart streetlight system consisted of hardware and software design. While the hardware makes use of sensors, Arduino board and GPS devices to build an integrated system capable of reporting the state of the street light through available wireless network, the software aspect consisted of an online application, capable of remote monitoring and control. The smart streetlight was conceived, built and tested. Results showed an effective operation, leading to reduced energy consumption of the streetlight, subsequent reduction of carbon footprint, effective detection of fault, effective location of fault owing to GPS devices and reduced downtime. The system is further expandable to cover a whole town/nation streetlight system.