Design and Construction of Security Lighting System in University of Port Harcourt using Mobile Phone

ABSTRACT The aim of this work is to design and construct a security lighting system at University of Port Harcourt using a mobile phone technology which will serve as the control switch. This work seeks to solve the challenges of fatigue due to the manual system of turning ON/OFF the switch. The system has four different stages; the mobile phone which is input, and serves as the transmitter for controlling the security lights from anywhere in Nigeria as long as there is GSM network, GSM modem is the second stage which serves as the receiver, the Arduino which contains the microcontroller processes the information and extracts the message from the GSM modem, the switching stage which is the relay that is responsible for switching ON/OFF the security lights on campus. Simulations of this design were carried out with proteus software while MATLAB/SIMULINK was used to process information from Aduino. The best result from simulations was analyzed based on inclusion of all the components required.  Upon completion of this work, an effective and reliable developed security lighting control system using mobile phone (with the same and different Network Providers) was achieved and this system controls series of lightning points at different locations within the campus with an impressive performance. Irrespective of the distance of the transmitter, time it takes to turn ON the light remains constant when operating on the same Network Provider.