Design of IoT-Based Smart Illumination System in Smart Cities

Abstract

Smart city is a livable, promising and growing concept that is responsible for keeping track of all the assets in real time. These resources are water, air, transport, electricity and solar that is based on pan-city or area-based development as per smart city proposal by the government of India. Smart cities make use of smart independent solutions to provide better hardware infrastructure and reliable services based on the applications of information and communication technology (ICT) for maintaining advance technological interfaces. Among the mentioned yardsticks of the smart cities, the paper focuses on the smart illumination system centered on Internet of things (IoT). However, the conventional structure requires wired and cable connections in bunch, that is, costly and not user interactive. To address the problem, automatic and smart usage of electric systems is analyzed that helps in fault detection, service restoration, easy and economical maintenance and efficient management of resources. This research paper emphasizes on IoT-based method that is used for the implementation of smart illumination system. The paper gives an insight into the connectivity methods, protocols and standards using various sensors to automate lighting system. The proposed system discusses the designing of hardware core components used in the development of the module and the process followed in the software-hardware integration through various network technologies with the dedicated servers. Hence, the proposed smart system may be very useful for managing and controlling the illumination patterns of smart cities of the future.