Automatic control system of highway lights

Abstract

Received Apr 24, 2020 Revised Jul 11, 2020 Accepted Aug 3, 2020 Keywords: Arduino Highways PIR Saving power Street lighting ABSTRACT This research provides new effective and cheap designed system for save electrical energy dissipation in all urban area roads and highways. [...]that is the aim of this research, to minimize the cost to keep those lights on, and to save energy for future use, providing an automated, simple, and effective smart street lighting system [5, 6]. There are some automation systems that well known to use in electrical power controlling such as programmable logic controller (PLC), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and Arduino based controlling system. The SCADA control system could be monitor a real-time electrical power generation including hybrid power system contains wind turbine, solar modules with rechargeable battery with ability to measuring data [13-15]. If it is a nighttime, then the master Arduino will detect the car movement on highway by pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensor. if the PIR sensor detected a car movement it will send a signal to the master Arduino and the microcontroller will send a signal to the next 5 Slave Arduino nodes immediately by the XBEE transmitter, the next 5 slave nodes will get the signal through a XBEE receiver and will pass it to the microcontroller then the slave Arduino will use the relay module to turn the light ON.