The project that turned my interest in electronics into a sustained research journey. Beginning with motion-responsive lighting, it grew to include solar tracking, panel cleaning, coordinated lamps, remote monitoring and an air-filtration prototype. It developed in stages between 2019 and 2025, with each new requirement becoming a reason to learn something new.
Prototype development completed in 2025
I did not learn all the required tools before starting. I learned because the project needed them. Motor drivers, servos, sensors and wireless communication gradually stopped being separate topics and became parts of something I was trying to make work.
I developed and integrated the embedded subsystems through a sequence of prototypes, with mentoring from Ferdous Wahid and later support for the 2025 research project. The work included rooftop experiments, lamp coordination and system documentation.
The air-filtration unit is presented as a prototype component. No health, pollutant-removal or city-scale impact claim is made here.
I started the streetlight in 2019 and kept returning to it through pauses, new requirements and other projects. In 2025, its long prototype-development chapter reached completion with research support from IRT, HSTU. Looking back, the project records much of my learning in embedded systems and integration.
IEEE mentoring helped me find a practical route back into engineering. With guidance from Ferdous Wahid, I learned to look for research papers, read what others had done and begin with a manageable problem. The streetlight project became that beginning: one requirement, one unfamiliar component and one lesson at a time.
M. S. Islam, M. R. Hoshen and M. F. Wahid
9th International Conference on I-SMAC
Accepted and presented
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