Automation of street lights using Arduino & NI Lab VIEW

This paper focus on automation of street lights that saves electrical energy, that 21^st century is striving hard to achieve. Conventionally, an operator is assigned to switch on the lights in the evening and switch off them in the morning from street to street covering the whole city/ town. This results in delay after sunset and wastage of energy in the morning as the operator needs time to cross from street to street. This project eliminates the above problems and also provides additional features like intensity control with respect to vehicle density, real time controlling etc. As the project is prototype version, ultrasonic sensors are used for sensing vehicles and NI Lab VIEW is used for real time controlling.