Wireless Street Lighting Control and Monitoring System

Question: Discuss about theWireless Street Lighting Control and Monitoring System. Answer: Introduction Todays world is technology oriented and even to accomplish a simple task the technology is used. The technology brings the nation to its forefront by effective working processes and thus, the technology has increased the demands in all the aspects. In the earlier days, there were street lights which were controlled manually, but the modern world is moving towards implementing traditional systems in Eco-friendly ways. The technology has advanced and it demands change, a change which brings efficiency in work. And in many cities, due to the manual controlling of street lights there is a lot of electricity wasted as the light are left without turning it off. Therefore, the wireless street lights controlling and monitoring system is developed to reduce the power consumption, for easy maintenance, for reducing CO emissions and for reducing the cost for maintenance. The objective is that, the various wireless street light controlling and monitoring systems for controlling and monitoring the status of street lights are summarized. Literature Review Smart Street Lighting Control and Monitoring System for Electrical Power Saving by Using VANE According to [1], the most of the countrys electricity is consumed in the street lighting. According to this research paper, it is considered that there is possibility that the electric power for the street lights can be reduced. The main idea is that the electricity can be reduced in the areas where there are no vehicles available during late nights. This is made possible to function automatically. And the aim is that when the sensor encounters the vehicles coming nearby then the lights are turned on automatically. To develop an automatically controlling and monitoring system for the street lights, it requires a system which can detect the vehicles, its speed and its location automatically. And, it is expected that this can save a lot of electric power in all the countries. It is also assumed to increase the shelf life of the lamps and continues the automatic controlling and monitoring with the help of the Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANET). Thus, this system identifies all the requi red quantities like the location of the vehicles, their presence and their speed. The infrastructure of VANET has the capacity to reduce the cost and increases the system's deployment process. The wireless Ad-Hoc networks offers security of wireless technologies based on the Wireless Ad-Hoc networks. The mobile computing devices and the wireless communications. The wireless communication helps to maximize the road safety, by exchanging the safety related information. The direct communication between vehicles using an Ad-Hoc network is referred to as inter-vehicle communication (IVC) or Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs). This gives the benefit of communicating with the surrounding wireless transceiver and controller. The VANET structure contains Road-Side Unites (RSUs) network, which are the interconnected Wireless Access Point and the vehicles are considered as the mobile nodes. This interconnection allows the communication of vehicles at the same instance. LED Based Energy Efficient Wireless Street Light Control and Monitoring System As stated in [2], the renewable energy sources is used in the place of a typical power sources. This change focuses to take care of the environment. This research paper, talks about the use of the solar energy for the working units to control the street lighting system. The available wireless street lighting control systems in the market contains certain disadvantages, to rectify this problem the solar LED street lights are used. This promises greater efficiency when compared with the previously used systems. The (GPRS) General Packet Radio Service is utilised for transmitting the real time data of the street light. This also has the capacity to identify the faults in the system and can also contacts the control room to resolve the issues. Earlier, the solar lights systems were controlled using the traditional artificial inspection tour. This tour increase the work, due to which the maintenance is delayed. Thus, the management faced inconvenience situation. Hence, to create a convenient management, the research paper considers monitoring the function on time, and controlling is appropriately is required. And this is satisfied by the intelligent and energy efficient wireless street light controller and a monitoring system. This is available with a Radio frequency and GPRS. Additionally, even the use of electricity is saved with the use of solar energy. The advantage of solar light is that the amount of carbon dioxide emissions can be easily decreased. Intelligent Wireless Street Lighting System According to [3], the ZigBee-based wireless devices are used for wireless communication of the street lights. Various sensors are used for the controlling and maintenance management. The main aspect is that the transmission is carried out in term of point-by-point. The transmitters and receivers are used for this transmission process. Due the increasing carbon dioxide emission, this paper contains three solutions. The solutions are, use of recent technologies like the LED. The next solution is the most revolutionizing method, which uses the remote management system for the street light management. The GPRS transmission, power line carrier transmission or GSM is used for communication. The last solution is to make use of the renewable energy source such as the solar energy. The ZigBee protocol and the network sensors are utilised for management purpose. The three solutions ensures to save the electricity, reduces the harm of CO2. And offers an intelligent system for managing the stree t light systems. Conclusion The three research papers are reviewed and their purpose and use in the wireless street lighting controlling and monitoring system is reviewed. In the first paper, the VANET infrastructure is used for reducing the cost and efficiency of working in the automatic controlling and monitoring system of street lights. The second paper, uses solar LED Street light and the RF and the GPRS are a communication medium to transfer the real time data. Moreover the amount of carbon dioxide emission is reduced. In the third paper, the ZigBee-based wireless devices are used for wireless communication of the street lights. Here, the transmitters and receivers are used for this transmission process. Therefore, various wireless street light controlling and monitoring system are mentioned. References S. 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