Fully automatic cleaning system of smart street lights: a new design via Alf and vegard’s RISC processor

Abstract

In this study, a new design of a full automatic cleaning system known as FACS is manufactured and used for street lighting systems. FACS is derived and controlled with a microcontroller. The system consists of an auto turn On/Off control system for the light and passive infrared sensor to save energy. The dust/rain sensors are utilised to recognize the dirt/drops accumulation and surface deposition on the surface of the lights. The proposed cleaning system is compared with all available technologies, and the pros and cons of the systems are described and compared in detail. The comparison reveals that for removing the dirt accumulation, a fully automatic cleaning system can be chosen as one of the most suitable cleaning systems due to its robustness, using for different types of street lights, excellent performance at a shorter time and low-cost. The evaluation of the total cost unveils that FACS is cheap and applicable system and it can be employed in industrial sector.