Review of Design of Lighting System for

Energy saving using Wireless Sensor Network

Nita D. Thokare Raskar Rahul Bhausaheb Prof. S.D. Jawale
Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering
MGM’s JNEC Aurangabad H.S.B.P.V.T’s Parikrama COE MGM’s JNEC Aurangabad
Aurangabad, India Kashti, Ahmednagar Aurangabad, India.

Abstract— The development of mobile internet and communication network, Internet and other networks
semiconductor technology making the people to achieve full integration [2].
getting strong demand for the home life of the
Now a days, a smart home is a room or a space which
network, intelligence and energy saving. Now a
is provided to get accustomed by itself to certain
days, energy saving is becoming more vital role as
situations to make the people feel happy and
the energy conservation and environmental
comfortable.
protection are taking more and more attentions.
A smart home applications can be further enhanced
We can detect environmental condition through
with new dimension of capabilities that were not
intelligent control using Wireless Sensor Network
available before with the recent expansion of
and adjust environmental parameter according to
communication networks. That means a wireless
the demand of people’s behavior so as to meet
sensor technology will soon make the system with
peoples demand and save energy. This paper aims
more feasible applications.
to build intelligent lighting energy saving system.
After the concept of WSN proposed, it has a great
In this paper, the proposed system is intelligent
development in application field[2].
lighting system , it can be implemented without
destroying the original lighting system.

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Intelligent

Lighting System (ILS), Wireless Communication, ZigBee.

I. INTRODUCTION

As the development of mobile internet,

semiconductor technology and modern living style of
people showing more interest towards the use of
intelligent system with energy saving. Wireless
sensor networks is a combination of computing, Fig. 1: Wireless Daylight Substitution [2].
communications and sensor technology, that has
become an active field of computer science research Sensor networks, also known as the Internet of
branch now [1]. things, refers to the perception of the physical world
for the purpose of information processing as its main
In addition to sensor nodes of the network, sensor task, network information exchange carrier, to
networks can also work with the mobile achieve things with objects, things and information
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exchange between the provision of perceptual zigbee is costly. So here, in the proposed system,
information services, intelligent integrated zigbee is used just for the analysis purpose. Hence
information system. The ZigBee Alliance for wireless the proposed system is easy to install without
sensor networks in the intelligent lighting control disturbing original light system and cost less.
field defines a set of very detailed protocol standard.
Based on the ZigBee wireless sensor network, LED III. METHODOLOGY
intelligent lighting system is advantageous for the
As per the study, the proposed system mainly based
expansion and promotion.[4].
on the principle of wireless communication. The
II. LITERATURE SURVEY wireless sensor nodes detect environment condition
automatically and adjust the light intensity. The IR
Wireless sensor networks in an intelligent energy sensor detect the environmental condition which send
saving lighting are developing rapidly and in a recent signal to the ATMEGA controller which controls the
year, a lot of relevant papers are issued. In an light intensity of light. The transmitter communicate with
control, several works have investigated [5-9] for the the other nodes by sending signals to control the
conservation of energy. In [5] proposes a system in intensity of respective lights. The workprocess is
which the lighting devices are divided into two types, mentioned in figure 2.
first one is the whole lighting device and the another
is local lighting device. It proposes lighting control
algorithm, in which there are two decision algorithms
used to determine the proper illuminations of devices
and to obtain the desired goal. The architecture of the
system is complex. The sensor networks are only
used to detect the environment. The sink node used to
collect the data and then connect with the master
controller through RS232. However, the master
controller communicates with the whole lighting
devices. Whole lighting devices control server links
Fig 2.Work process
to Whole lighting dimmers through the RS232. So
the installation of such a system is inconvenience.
Papers [6], [10]and [11] introduce light control using
The communication between the main controller and
wireless sensors to save energy for the commercial
the lighting devices is wired.
buildings. In paper [11], a lighting control algorithm
For example, paper [11] proposes an intelligent
is proposed which is directed against the entire
lighting control algorithm which is mainly directed
environment and adjusts all the lamps in it. If the size
against the entire environment and adjust all the
of this room is very large the process of calculation is
lamps in it. But, if the number of users in the
difficult. In paper [12] designed a home lighting
environment small then such calculation is not
system for energy-saving, but it only control the
necessary.
lights on or off. So this method is also not much
IV. IMPLEMENTATION
better for installation. In the proposed system, we
have studied how the IR sensors used to detect the In this paper an intelligent lighting control algorithm
environmental conditions and then to control the is proposed which not only satisfy the people’s
intensity of light. Instead of IR sensor, in some parameter but also the satisfies the requirement of
papers, a zigbee protocol is used. But the use of energy saving.

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A .Algorithm

The algorithm proposes the concepts of dimming

zone, coverage and so on. The overview of algorithm
is given as follow,

1. In the dimming process, it takes location of the

user as the center according to the user’s activities
and then ring out a dimming zone. Only the lamps in
the zone need lighting decision. The process is
unassisted;

2. In the above-mentioned point, when multiple users

enters simultaneously in the neighboring grids then it
will make some grids covered with more dimming
zone. So we can further put forward concept of
coverage, which is the extent of a zone covering a
grids.

In the paper, we have proposed LED-dimming

module of PWM modulation signal [8].

B. Flowchart

A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents an

algorithm, workflow or process, showing the steps as
boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting
them with arrows. This diagrammatic representation
illustrates a solution model to a given problem.
Following flowchart explains the behavior of the
proposed system for lighting system. As per the
logic, the system is mainly used for the energy saving Fig. 3 Flowchart of Lighting System
purpose. The light intensity is adjusted as per the
people’s behavior. So whenever there is need, then V. BLOCK DIAGRAM OF PROPOSED
and at that place only light will be available. SYSTEM

In the proposed system the list of main component

includes ATMEGA328 controller that is dimming
control circuit, IR sensor node circuit, RF transmitter
and receiver. Following figure 3 shows the the block
diagram of overall system.

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 VI. CONCLUSION

So this paper proposes a system which can control

and monitor the light.The proposed method has many
advantages over other methods used and presented
till now, such as convenient installation, suitability
for large rooms due to efficient computational
techniques and lighting intensitycontrol instead of
just on and off. The wireless connectivity without
destroying the original system is also the main
advantage of proposed method.These techniques
make the proposed method to be more energy
efficient and advantageous over other existing
methods.
Fig. 4 Block diagram of Lighting System
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