Introduction

Light Intensity Control System is a powerful and intelligent

system which enables us to monitor the intensity of light at a
particular point at different intervals (e.g. 5 mins or 10 mins).
In order to detect the intensity of light or darkness we use a
sensor called LDR (Light Dependent Resistor). The project is
based on the principle that whenever the light falling on the
sensor changes its intensity, the resistance of the LDR changes
accordingly i.e., whenever the intensity of light increases, the
resistance of LDR decreases thus the voltage across LDR
decreases.
Here we are also using a Wi-Fi module of the BOLT IOT platform
to convert the analog signals of LDR into digital signal and thus
receive the data of the intensity of the light through the use of
Wi-Fi module and BOLT IOT platform.
 OBJECTIVES

The objective of the project is to detect the light intensity at

various time intervals and to show that intensity is a data
accessible over the internet.

PURPOSE
Light intensity monitoring has its applications in numerous
fields like the automation of street lights (which saves electrical
energy) and in big manufacturing firms like medical firms which
require their medicine to be manufactured at a particular light
intensity threshold.
HARDWARES AND SOFTWARES
USED

The hardware components used int the project will be:

 BOLT IOT Wi-Fi Module
 Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)
 A 10 Kohm resistor.

The Software and online services used will be:

 BOLT IOT Cloud
 BOLT IOT Platform
 Google Charts
 WORKING METHODOLOGY

About BOLT IOT Wi-Fi Module:

It is a powerful module which provides Wi-Fi connectivity over
the cloud.
The source for power for this module is 5V/1A DC via micro-
USB ports.
It has 64 kb of instruction RAM and 96 kb of data RAM.
It has 5 digital pins which are also called GPIO (General Purpose
Input Out) pins, one analog pin.
ADC (Analog to Digital Convertor) pin and a RX and a TX pin.

The working principle of our project is simply based on the

Ohm’s law:

V=IR
Working
We connect the LDR between 5V pin and the analog pin so that
when the light intensity increases, the resistance of LDR
decreases and thus the voltage across the LDR decreases and as
the result the voltage on the analog input pin increases.
The BOLT module then converts that voltage in to a 10-bit
digital value that varies 0 to 1024.
This digital data is then sent to the cloud where it can be
plotted as a visual representation.

CONCLUSION

Internet of Things has always given us wonderful smart ideas to

connect all the physical entities and have given us the power to
control and monitor them over the internet.
From household use to monitor the light received by plants to
global use such as medical firms ,light intensity detection serves
many useful purposes.
Controlling and monitoring the entities over the internet will be
the boom in the technology for the upcoming era.
 INDEX

1. Introduction
2. Objectives
2.1. Purpose
3. Hardwares and softwares used
4. Workng Methodology
4.1. About BOLT IOT Wi-Fi Module
4.2. Working
5. Conclusion