INTRODUCTION

1.0 Introduction
Smart cities and green technology are becoming one of the world agenda in preparing for a
better future. The smart street lighting system is one of the technologies that support green
environmental related work. The technology that evolves with the advance in wireless
communication and low energy street light has become the foundation in the development of
smart cities. Street lighting is one of the important parts of a city’s infrastructure where the
main function is to illuminate the city’s street during the dark hours of the day. There are several
factors that should be considered for the design of road lighting systems, such as a safety night
for members of the public and other road users, provide public lighting at a cost effective,
reduce crime and reduce its impact on the environment. Generally, street light is switched on
for the whole night and during the day the street light is switched off but during the night time,
street light are not necessary if there is no traffic user. Saving of this energy consumption is a
very important factor these days as energy resources get reduced day by day. Alternatives for
natural resources are very less and our next generations may face lots of problems because of
lack of these natural resources.

2.0 Problem Statement

It is very common to see the street light alight all night, which is a great waste of energy. The
power consumption is relatively high day by day. Some streets are not fully occupied like the
main city streets; sometimes they are empty for a certain period time. For example, along the
main road of Felda Aring to Tasek Kenyir, only during the day it fully utilized but at night the
road less user. In addition, the route along the main entrance of Ungku Omar Polytechnic
especially from the roundabout infront of the JKP until the new hostel also underutilized at
night. Based on the problem, the observation of street lighting was done to improve the street
lighting control system to make sure the street light can operate properly. By applying this
system, it can reduce energy consumption and also can reduce electricity wastage. Therefore it
is important to know the ways how to minimize the power consumption of the street light.
3.0 Objectives

There are several objectives of this project, which are:

 To build an intelligent smart street lighting system equipped with vehicle presence
sensors.
 To provide a better solution to reduce electricity wastage in controlling street lights and
reduce power consumption of the street light.
 To reduce environmental pollution especially global warming where electricity
consumption is reduced and the emission of light can be reduced.

4.0 Scope of the Study

This project focuses on the development of street lighting energy saving in the areas of Ungku
Omar Polytechnic. The focus is more on the low road users such as road from the roundabout
to the main entrance of Ungku Omar Polytechnic new hostel that requires the speed below
50km/h. Besides, the project is to save energy consumption by dimmed the Led light and the
IR Sensor connect to the Arduino will be main the controller for the system. This system is to
reduce energy if no vehicles pass through certain roads and this system also will control the
intensity of the street lighting to the minimum intensity if no vehicles passing through the road
but when the sensor detect movement of the vehicle the street light will be switched to
maximum intensity.

EXPECTED RESULTS

As a result of this project, the reduction of electricity especially in rural areas can be reduced
as well as in urban areas. Our main focus is on reducing electricity consumption to help reduce
global warming even less than 1%. The use of IR Sensor in this project have a lot of advantages
such as they are not affected by corrosion or oxidation which can reduce the cost of
maintainance and they have very strong noise immunity even with a loud noise present, it can
work normally. The advance of technology use in this project, allow this Ungku Omar
Polytechnic to be one of the Local Institute that apply Smart Street Light in reducing electricity
as one of the movement towards energy saving and lessen global warming.