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Automatic Street Light Using Arduino and LDR Sensor

This document describes an automatic street light control system using an Arduino, light dependent resistor (LDR) sensor, and relay module. The system aims to reduce energy consumption by automatically turning street lights on when the light level drops and off when it's light out. It works by sensing light levels with the LDR, which produces an analog voltage that the Arduino converts to a digital value. Street lights will turn on when the LDR reads below 800-1023 and turn off above that range. The total cost of materials for the system is 1,074 Philippine pesos.

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Automatic Street Light Using Arduino and LDR Sensor

This document describes an automatic street light control system using an Arduino, light dependent resistor (LDR) sensor, and relay module. The system aims to reduce energy consumption by automatically turning street lights on when the light level drops and off when it's light out. It works by sensing light levels with the LDR, which produces an analog voltage that the Arduino converts to a digital value. Street lights will turn on when the LDR reads below 800-1023 and turn off above that range. The total cost of materials for the system is 1,074 Philippine pesos.

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Automatic Street Light using Arduino

and LDR Sensor

JANDEL ROSE E. ROMERO


JESSA MAE B. VALERO
GIO R. CUEVA
I. INTRODUCTION

In any City, ‘street light’ is one of the major power consuming factors. Even in daytime

when there is no requirement of street lights, it is frequently seen that these lights remain ON

violating the energy conservation rule. This continuous lighting pollutes the environment as

well as increases the tariff of the electricity. Therefore, the design and controlling of street lighting is

an important area of work for maintaining safe transportation in our daily life. A number of researchers

have concentrated on the work to reduce the energy consumption and also to reduce environmental

pollution.

A report was made to present an efficient street lighting system with reduced power.

Automatic Street Light Control System is a simple yet powerful concept, which uses transistor

as a switch. It automatically switches ON lights when the sunlight goes below the visible region

of our eyes. This is done by a sensor called Light Dependent 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 cut-off region. The working of relay is also known.


II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This system works by sensing the intensity of light in its environment. The sensor that

can be used to detect light is an LDR. It's inexpensive, and you can buy it from any local

electronics store or online. 

The LDR gives out an analog voltage when connected to VCC (5V), which varies in

magnitude in direct proportion to the input light intensity on it. That is, the greater the intensity

of light, the greater the corresponding voltage from the LDR will be. Since the LDR gives out an

analog voltage, it is connected to the analog input pin on the Arduino. The Arduino, with its

built-in ADC (analog-to-digital converter), then converts the analog voltage (from 0-5V) into a

digital value in the range of (0-1023). When there is sufficient light in its environment or on its

surface, the converted digital values read from the LDR through the Arduino will be in the range

of 800-1023.
III. OBJECTIVES

The main objective of our project is to provide a better solution to minimize the

electrical wastage in operating street lights, in this era of automation humans are restless and

are not in a position to regulate the manual operations in any field, a rapid advancement in

embedded systems has paved path for the design and development of micro-controller based

automatic control systems. Our project presents an automatic street light controller using light

dependent resistor (LDR).

Specifically, this study aims to;

1. To provide lighting to the streets such that minimum possible power is consumed during

nights.

2. To develop the hardware of control unit.

3. To test and validate the designed system.


IV. SCOPE AND LIMITATION
V. COST ANALYSIS

These are the following materials required for our Automatic Street Light using Arduino
UNO and LDR Sensor;

Materials Quantity Cost

1. Arduino UNO 1 625.00php

2. Single Chanel Relay Module 1 130.00php

3. Bulb 1 65.00php

5. Light-Dependent Resistor 1 10.00php


( LDR)

6. Breadboard 1 140.00php

7. Battery Connector 1 54.00php

8. Jumper Wires 5-10 50.00php

TOTAL: 1,074.00php

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