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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
In this
paper the design and development of pavement pressure sensor-based energy for
street lights. The main aim of this paper is to generate the energy through the
pressure generated by footsteps. Piezoelectric materials produce electric
charge when a stress is applied on it. This phenomenon is known as
piezoelectric effect. This effect takes place only in crystals that have no
centre of symmetry. The charge produced by the application of stress can be can
be manipulated as per our need. This micro controller setup is placed at foot
path when a person walking along the foot path the footsteps of the person
generate some pressure and that pressure generated by the person is noted down
by the pressure transducer connected to the micro controller the pressure
generated at the transducer is converted into the electrical energy and that
energy is stored into the battery connected to it. This energy can be used to
the street light to turn it on during night times the street light can be
switch on automatically without any human effort by simply setting on and off
time in RTC. By using this we can develop extra energy without wasting the
other resources. Lot of energy is wasted for the street lights as they don’t
switch off at the right time and if this project is implemented in areas where
there is lot of pedestrian floating in busy areas and railway stations, power
is cost effectively saved as there will be no need of separate power supply
from the power stations to the street.
Country : India
IRJIET, Volume 6, Issue 3, March 2022 pp. 163-168