Power saving mechanism for street lights using wireless communication

Power wastage is one of the most serious problems at present. One of the major challenges at the moment is the improvement of the present street lighting system. To control and maintain complex street lighting system more economically, various street light control systems are developed. The advances in the technologies related to wireless communication has led to the emergence of several engineering designs to aid the human requirements. Monitoring of street lights and controlling, plays a significant role in developing country like India and implementing mobile communication for facilitating electricity board is the basic idea of proposed work. In this paper we are proposing a simpler, multipurpose, cost-effective design to control the on-off mechanism of street lights via Short Message Service (SMS).