An Efficient Framework to Maximize Street Lighting Coverage

Abstract

An efficient framework for deploying the street lights is proposed in this paper to obtain maximum lighting coverage for the reduction in night-time accidents and crime. It ensures a maximum coverage with reduced energy consumption obtained by the street lights. In the proposed work, a suitable layout of lighting arrangement is selected accordingly depending on the road width and the height of the street light. The Iso-Lux diagram is used to determine point-specific illuminance of the street light. The proposed approach can determine the distance from the Nadir point in both directions, which in turn finds an optimal inter-distance between two consecutive luminaires to ensure maximum coverage. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed work over existing approaches in terms of several street lighting design aspects.