Smart street lighting solution for remote rural areas of India

Debdyut Hajra

doi:10.1117/12.2274111

6 September 2017 Smart street lighting solution for remote rural areas of India

Debdyut Hajra

Proceedings Volume 10378, Sixteenth International Conference on Solid State Lighting and LED-based Illumination Systems; 103780Y (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274111
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Though many smart street lighting solutions is available for urban areas, comparatively fewer solutions exist for rural areas. In the recent times, village streets have been illuminated with artificial lights as a part of rural development drive undertaken by the governments of respective countries. But, vehicle and pedestrian traffic is quite low through village roads. Hence, if light remains on all night long on such roads, then there is a huge wastage of energy. This calls for solutions to reduce this energy loss in an efficient manner. There are a lot of factors which must be kept in mind while designing solutions. Many villages lack the proper infrastructure to support new technologies. Communication facilities are limited, lack of local technically skilled labor, lack of security, etc. After evaluating these opportunities and challenges, an attempt has been made to devise a smart street lighting solution tailored for remote rural areas in India. One part of the solution discusses how intensity of the LED street lights can be varied according to the ambient lighting conditions using sensors and LED switching in LED matrix. An artificial intelligence (AI) has also been modelled to identify traffic conditions using PIR sensors and object identification through image processing and independently control the lights. It also tracks the performance and status of each light. It would send this data and necessary notifications to a distant control center for human evaluation. This solution is also applicable for other rural areas throughout the world.

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Debdyut Hajra "Smart street lighting solution for remote rural areas of India", Proc. SPIE 10378, Sixteenth International Conference on Solid State Lighting and LED-based Illumination Systems, 103780Y (6 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274111

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