Automatic Street Light Control System Using LDR and IC555 Timer

Abstract This project Automatic Street Light Control System aims at designing and executing the advanced development in embedded systems for energy saving of street lights by using light dependent resistor (LDR). Nowadays, human has become too busy and he is unable to find time even to switch the lights on or off. This can be seen more effectively in the case of street lights. The present system is like, the street lights will be switched on in the evening before the sun sets and they are switched off the next day morning after there is sufficient light on the roads. But the actual timing for these street lights to be switched on are when there is absolute darkness on the roads. This project gives the best solution for electrical power wastage. Also the manual operation of lighting system is completely eliminated. In my project using LDR, which varies according to the amount of light falling on its surface; this gives an indication for me whether it is a day/night time. This project can be configured by using transistors, IC 555.

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This paper aims at designing and executing the advanced development in embedded systems for energy saving of street lights. Nowadays, human has become too busy, and is unable to find time even to switch the lights wherever not necessary. The present system is like, the street lights will be switched on in the evening before the sun sets and they are switched off the next day morning after there is sufficient light on the roads. This paper gives the best solution for electrical power wastage. Also the manual operation of the lighting system is completely eliminated. In this paper the two sensors are used which are Light Dependent Resistor LDR Sensor to indicate a day/night time and the photoelectric sensors to detect the movement on the street. The microcontroller PIC16F877A is used as brain to control the street light system, where the programming language used for developing the software to the microcontroller is C-language. Finally, the system has been successfully designed and implemented as prototype system.

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Automatic Street Light Control System is a simple yet powerful concept, which uses transistor as a switch. By using this system manual works are 100% removed. It automatically switches ON lights when the sunlight goes below the visible region of our eyes. This is done by a sensor called Light Dependant Resistor (LDR) which senses the light actually like our eyes. It automatically switches OFF lights whenever the sunlight comes, visible to our eyes. By using this system energy consumption is also reduced because nowadays the manually operated street lights are not switched off even the sunlight comes and also switched on earlier before sunset. In this project, no need of manual operation like ON time and OFF time setting. This project clearly demonstrates the working of transistor in saturation region and cutoff region. The working of relay is also known.

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-introduction: Many of the people have a phobia of darkness, so to assist them in such situation, we have explained a simple circuit. It will automatically turn on street light in the way of LEDs or bulb coupled with relay. Automatic street light system is very common nowadays as it provides intelligent street lighting mechanism. It provides light automatically during night without any human interference. These energy saving street lights make use of incandescent lamps instead of LEDs .So here I will study with you how to make an electronic circuit for street light automation using simple electronics component . - Objectives of the Project  Reducing the wastage of power   Reducing physical efforts   Improve the system in our daily life -CIRCUIT WORK PRINCIPLE: The lamp(street bulb) should remain OFF during daytime and turn ON automatically during night. The unique property of light depended resistor is utilized here. LDR is a variable resistor which has very low resistance in the presence of light and very high resistance in the absence of light.In this circuit, we create a potential divider network with an ordinary resistor in one arm and a LDR on the other arm. According to Ohm’s law (V=IR), voltage drop across the resistor increases when its resistance increases. Here the drop across LDR varies with changes in light intensity. That is voltage drop across the LDR is minimum in the presence of light and maximum in the absence of light.

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Number of vehicles on our roads is increasing day by day, also the technology has developed but the safety factor is always needed to be considered. Now a day's vehicles come fitted with lots of safety features. One of the essential safety feature that need to be installed is automatic upper-dipper control of headlight, this feature can mainly use during night time driving. Human eyes are very sensitive to the light, if eyes suddenly comes in contact with the light after darkness, cornea present in eyes gets contract i.e. vision gets blank and require some time to recover the vision. Many times the situation comes when suddenly vehicle approaches from front with headlight in upper mode causes blindness to the eyes of the driver. During that time vehicle covers some amount of distance, here chances of accident may occur. It is a sheer luck if person goes safely through that situation. To overcome this manual dipping problem, an automatic mechanism has made to dip the headlight automatically whenever situation occurs. This can reduce number of accidents during night time and provide comfortable driving. Operating principle, working and design of PCB is briefly discussed in this paper.

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