DEXTRA SMART JUNCTION POLE

Amiraj Charitable Trust Established, Amiraj College of Engineering and Technology in the year 2012. The College is approved by AICTE and GTU as well as ISO 9001:2015 certified. With currently 750 students studying Engineering in five different branches namely Civil, Mechanical, Computer, Electrical and EC.The institute currently is focusing on Science beyond Engineering by providing exclusive Skill development training programs for its existing students.

In Amiraj We have “Amiraj Research & Development Cell” (ARDC). Under this cell last year in Dextra 2015 we came with the idea of Amiraj Dextra Smart Driverless mobile application run car which is done by faculty and student team. In Amiraj Dextra 2016 ARDC has introduced Amiraj Dextra Smart Junction Pole which is India’s first Smart Street Light with various features. This little idea has triggered its shots at a larger platform. The out of the box idea, of innovations, of enhancement is at the roots of the various ongoing projects at Amiraj and the one major innovation that we are going to talk about Phase-1 of Amiraj Dextra Smart Junction Pole.

Introduction

Here we have designed Smart Junction Pole which is presented by Amiraj College of Engineering and Technology. A smart city is defined as the ability to integrate multiple technological solutions in a secure fashion to manage the city’s assets. The goal of building a smart city is to improve the quality of life by using technology to improve the efficiency of services and meet residents’ needs. The idea of this project can be implemented in many big cities, where most of the street lights are consuming useful power. If we talk about the structure of pole then we can say that the pole has a movable structure with locking wheel concepts. The solar panel of the pole is adjustable so we can adjust it in all the directions. It is facilitate with storage cabin which helps to store anything like instruments, cables, etc.

Smart Features

There are main features in this Smart Junction Pole.
1. Solar Street Light
2. Solar Charger.
3. Energy saving lighting system
4. Motion detector
5. Face Recognition
6. Emergency help
7. Smart traffic calculation
8. Timer counter
9. Traffic Signal
10. Hotspot
Now we will discuss about these smart features in detail.

1. Solar Street Light

Solar street lights are raised light sources which are powered by photovoltaic panels generally mounted on the lighting structure or integrated in the pole itself. The photovoltaic panels charge a rechargeable battery, which powers a fluorescent or LED lamp during the night. Latest designs use wireless technology for battery management. The street lights using this technology can operate as a network with each light having the capability of performing on or off the network. In this Smart Junction Pole we are using solar panel so with the use of solar energy we can run the pole and charge electronic devices.

2. Solar Charger

With the use of solar charging point we can charge the electronic devices so in emergency traffic police, passengers etc. can charge very easily. It is used for constant charging and discharging of battery. Also PV and battery are isolated with each other. It works on the principal of PWM.

3. Energy Saving Lighting system

We have circuit which is connected with the LED Light which can make the light off for day and on for night. By using LDR sensor we can keep LED light to be in OFF position. So we can save solar energy for future use.

4. Motion Detector

With the help of IR Motion sensor light will be on when any motion is detected which is fitted in the pole which can sense the movement of vehicles or person and work accordingly. In present scenario at junctions lights are on during the late light though there is no traffic, because of these lots of energy is wasted but by this system we are not only controlling the traffic but also saving the energy smartly for the future generation..

5. Face Recognition

Security of human is a main aim in smart city. So as per the smart city concept we have introduce this feature. A facial recognition system is a computer application capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. In our project the camera is attached to the pole of the smart street light, with a push to talk system. Any unidentified / identified person will come to the pole and press the push to talk button, then the call will directly go to the server of our system. The administrator will start the recognition system, if the person’s details are already there in the system then system will recognize the person and speak name of the person, it also saves the image of that person with date and time. If the person is not recognized the administrator can add the detail of that person for future use. The system will work like this, and with the use of this system we can find the missing person very easily which is are main aim.

6. Emergency Help

As mention above in Face recognition, if any unidentified / identified person will come to the pole and press on push to talk button then call will directly go to the control room and administrator will start recognition system, and with the use of this system person will get the help in emergency.

7. Smart Traffic Calculation

In our project we have designed one image processing algorithm in MATLAB software to identify density of traffic. In which one reference image compare current traffic image and finding density of traffic will be evaluated. System will give the input to the Timer counter. System will reorganize high and low traffic and work accordingly.