Design and implementation of smart solar LED street light

This paper proposes energy efficient of smart street lighting system using low cost microcontroller based Arduino. The main objective is to design energy efficient smart streetlight for energy conservation in existing streetlights of rural area, urban area and exclusively for smart cities. The system consists of LED luminaire, LED driver, PV panel, charge controller light sensor, motion sensor, Arduino. The smart streetlight is controlled on the basis of traffic on road and day/night time
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. The system is programmed to automatically turn off during the hours of daylight and only operate during the night and heavy raining or bad weather. Many times we see that street lights are remain switched ON even during day time, this is total of wastes of electricity while India is facing lack of electricity. Another problem is the traditional street lamp e.g. Sodium vapour, Metal halide, Incandescent, Fluorescent lamps consumes more power as compared to new advanced Led Lights. Streetlights can be operated free of cost by using automatic controlled, self-powered, efficient solar LED street light.