Week 3 : Project Inspiration - Intelligent Highway Lamp Post

The idea to do this project, came during the semester break, when I was travelling from my family house in Jitra, Kedah, to my village in Sik, Kedah. Sik is a small town, located in the rural area. After exit the PLUS highway at Gurun, I need to drive through 30KM of road,  which most of the part of the road, is very bumpy and dark at night. This is due to road lamp posts are not a common sight along the road.

This is very dangerous, especially if travelling when it is raining at night. A conventional lamp post would be very hard to implement on the road, this is because the cost of electrical wiring would be high. Since there is only rubber tree along side the road, the nearest TNB sub-station is located at the town of Jeniang. Jeniang is located between Gurun and Sik.  

Intelligent Highway Lamp Post would definitely solve this problem, since it does not require any electrical wiring from TNB. The lamp post would rely on Solar power as its main source of electricity.