Intelligent street light system in context of smart grid

Energy utilization & management schemes at home, business and industry have been successfully implemented in the context of smart grid. But the public street light system has not been taken under serious consideration. The conventional street light system is the potential consumer of electricity, and large amount of electricity wasted. The consumption of energy is consistent and has no concern with the activity and frequency of traffic. With the advancement of technology, numerous solutions like LED, illumination controller/dimmer, Wireless and ICT based designs have been proposed. The main objective of this research is to evaluate these technologies and integrate with smart grid to efficiently consume the energy in the street light system. For this purpose, architecture of an intelligent street light system has been recommended. We also proposed an algorithm to conserve the energy according to the area and traffic. Results are computed through simulated experiment and compared with other solution.