D.V. Pushpa Latha

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

E-mail: dvplatha@yahoo.com

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/D-V-Pushpa-Latha-2103098592

Research Interests: Embedded System, Fuzzy Logic, Support Vector Machines

Biography

Dr. D.V.Pushpalatha is working as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, A.P., India. She holds a degree in Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) with specialization in Electrical & Electronics from Andhra University (GITAM College, Visakhapatnam), Master of Engineering (M.E.) with specialization in Control Systems Engineering from Andhra University and performed a research in Control Systems resulting in a Ph.D from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A.P., India. She has keen interest in the field of research spanning embedded systems, Fuzzy Logic and Support Vector Machines.

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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