Created on 13th December 2020
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It has been a while since artificial light has allowed us to see in the dark. We can now light the homes we live in, our workspace and, of course, the streets we wander. This invention has made our lives easier and, as public lighting has become a norm in most parts of the world, safer. Street lighting is now a core piece of urban and rural infrastructure, creating a safe environment for pedestrians and drivers alike. Street lighting technology and systems advance faster now than ever before and need to always bring more to the table to benefit the people, municipalities, and the planet. The issue of large energy consumption is a concern not only at a local level, but also globally. Public lighting has been named ‘the nervous system of a city’, connecting hundreds of millions of streetlights with access to power across the globe. This constantly increasing number has made lighting responsible for a staggering 19% of global electricity usage and is contributing towards the already exceeding levels of CO2 emissions. Our project solves all the problems keeping sustainable development into account. Auto illuminated street lights would glow automatically when the sunsets. This also has a incredible feature. Taking the dataset of various shops and their timings in a particular municipality and find out which shop closes the last. With that timing and keeping a buffer timing the street lights stop glowing. When a vehichle passes by the street light again glows up. In future we can also use google map API to get the exact details of shop which would make our project perfectly beneficial.
There were many challenges we ran into. Since we could not use any hardware it was really difficult for us to integrate arduino into our project. Secondly, we had no access to google map API as it was paid which would have made our process much easier. Hence we took made a dummy dataset to show its functionality.