This project is about building a Smart City Lightning System: Specifically streetlights for this particular project. Operating street lights are very necessary for security and safety in our communities and very costly as well. Sustainability when incorporated would improve efficiencies of the system in relation to its key objectives (security and safety) whilst cutting down cost as well. We focus on improving the efficiencies of streetlights for security and safety of our roads and cities in a smart approach. Explained below are some aspects of this project.

City cameras are almost found everywhere in our cities. The quality of these cameras is useless without proper street lighting. To do this, we include analog light sensors to read the brightness of the environment and allow the street light to give a certain brightness to improve illumination. The duration of day and night are also incorporated as well to deliver the right amount of lighting.

A sound reception device with trained machine learning models for different kinds of sound that depict a car crash, gun shot(s), intense noise (from human or not) indicating a variety of responses from a bad event would be incoporated as well. This concept would be applied, especially in areas where city cameras are around. Should in case a gunshot is heard, within a considerable radius in the surrounding, streetlights would be brightened to allow the city cameras have a better recording of the incident with and see how the shotter moves around when spotted in the city camera: This would be applied to other scenarios as well. In so doing, security agencies are alerted and this system would help them track the armed robbers or unwanted events as well (could be an accident, riot, etc).

All of the streetlights would be connected and inditcated on app with a map. This would help to indicate various conditions or states of the streetlights such as those that are down in real-time and need repairs, amongst others.

With regards to the above, the cost of operating streetlights would be controlled sustainably whilst improving efficiencies of streetlights for security and safety on our roads and cities.

An FPGA is ideal for this case since it is very fast and embraces parallel computing.

Project Proposal

1. High-level project introduction and performance expectation

2. Block Diagram

3. Expected sustainability results, projected resource savings