A Survey on Street Light Monitoring and Control

Street light is a raised source of light that is commonly used along walkways and streets when the surrounding turns dark. Today, power saving is very important and difficult, saving of power is need for our society. Faults in the street lights can be detected using a special embedded system called the Hitchhiker, which will be installed on fixed-route vehicles to collect the illumination readings along the vehicle’s route. Intensity of street light can be controlled using passive infrared motion detector (dim during dawn and dusk as well as dark during night).Street light can be switched on/off automatically using Microcontroller. Power can be consumed efficiently by switching on/off the street light automatically using GSM technology via short message service. Street light can be protected by automatic detection devices, zigbee wireless and G3-PLC power line communication technology is used to build a street lamp monitoring and energy management system for street lamp security.