Swati Devabhaktuni

Work place: Department of Electrical Engineering, GokarajuRangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

E-mail: swatikjm@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Computational Engineering, Engineering

Biography

Swati Devabhaktuni received the B.Tech degree in electrical and electronics engineering from V. R. Siddhartha Engineering College, Andhra University, India in 2001, and the M.Tech degree in control systems from J.N.T.U University, in 2004. Currently, she is a Associate professor in Gokaraju rangaraju Institute of engineering and technology, Hyderabad, She is also a Research Scholer in J.N.T.U University, Hyderabad. Her research interests are the power electronics, AC motor drives, and control systems.

Author Articles
PLC based Smart Street Lighting Control

By D.V.Pushpa Latha K.R.Sudha Swati Devabhaktuni

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2014.01.08, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2013

Conventional street lighting systems in most of the areas are Online at regular intervals of time irrespective of the seasonal variations. The street lights are simply switched on at afternoon and turned off in the morning. The consequence is that a large amount of Power is wasted meaninglessly. As energy consumption is an issue of increasing interest, possible energy savings in public street lighting systems are recently discussed from different viewpoints. The purpose of this work is to describe the Smart Street Lighting system, an approach to accomplish the demand for flexible public lighting systems using a Programmable Logic controller (PLC). The main difference from other computers is that PLCs are armoured for severe conditions such as dust, moisture, heat, cold etc., and have the facility for extensive input/output (I/O) arrangements. In the proposed paper, street lights are controlled using millennium 3 PLC taking the seasonal variations into consideration.

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