Home automation technology can be a huge contributor to our campaign to save energy and do our bit for the planet. The technology provides more than one way to be energy efficient while not being a burden on the environment and your pocket at the same time.
The Indian government is warming up to the idea of smart cities in India. With the progressive approach and the right mindset to attain better, we are coming up with reliable and energy-efficient ways to conserve electricity. The government is now teaming up with various companies with the same motto to make India smart and have a better future.
A similar opportunity presented itself and we grabbed it. KPar and SmarDen teamed up and presented a proposal for Smart Street Light Automation for the existing stretch of street lights. The proposal was the demonstrate the use of the technology of the Internet of Things and how it can be used to save power and resources.
Project Proposal: The conversion of existing street lights into smart Street Lights with our smart Street light control panel and IoT Dashboard at M A Road, Srinagar.
Understanding of the current architecture: The Complete stretch of M A Road, has a total of 80 poles that are having 2 street lights on each pole. Hence the total number of street lights in the complete stretch is 160. This complete stretch is operated from 2 substations and we planned to deploy the pilot project on one substation.
Here is the architecture for each substation. Since there is a total of 2 substations, the total load is divided into 2 parts and according to this one substation is responsible for approx. 30 Poles of Street light. All the poles have two arms i.e. there is a total of 2 lights on a single pole and one substation is handling over 60 Lights approx.
Converting the Existing Street Lights to Smart Street Lights
We used our smart Street Light Control Panel to convert the existing stretch of street lights into smart street lights.
At the output of each circuit breaker, we installed our devices and then with the help of KPar or SmarDen mobile application or our Smart Dashboard, we’ve configured the devices with our cloud-based IoT Platform. The Smart Street Light control panel works on a GSM Sim card, so we used a BSNL Sim with our device that provides the necessary internet connection.
Demonstration of Smart Street Lights
How are these Smart Street Lights helping the Indian Government?
The Internet of Things technology is used in automation projects, which states that the normal things around us can be connected to the internet and they can communicate with each other and we as users can interact with them, control them and monitor them with our smartphones from anywhere in the world. Now because these smart devices are integrated in this way, your trip to manually go and check the street lights or to turn them on and off is saved. The operators can remotely control the street lights from their homes. Moreover, there are lots and lots of features which help them in taking control over the system in a better way.
Our Journey in Smart City Srinagar