25 TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (ISD2016 POLAND) 67 Maintenance of street lighting systems using mobile phones Ana Castillo-Martinez ana.castillo@uah.es Computer Sciences Department, University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares, Spain Alberto Gutierrez-Escolar alberto.gutierreze@uah.es Computer Sciences Department, University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares, Spain Jose-Maria Gutierrez-Martinez josem.gutierrez@uah.es Computer Sciences Department, University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares, Spain Jose-Amelio Medina Merodio josea.medina@uah.es Computer Sciences Department, University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares, Spain Jose Manuel Gomez-Pulido jose.gomez@uah.es Computer Sciences Department, University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares, Spain Francisco J. Cobo javier.cobo@edu.uah.es Computer Sciences Department, University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares, Spain Jose-Javier Martinez-Herraiz josej.martinez@uah.es Computer Sciences Department, University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares, Spain Abstract There is no doubt that street lighting systems have an important role in cities promoting comfort, as well as enhancing safety and security. These kinds of systems require maintenance in order to guarantee operation and reduce energy consumption. To help with certain maintenance tasks, a new smartphone application has been developed. The aim of this tool is to set up street lighting energy efficiency level at the same time that the illuminance level is evaluated. The benefit of this tool is that maintenance staff can assess energy efficiency on an easy and quick way, achieving a result report. In addition, a new Bluetooth device was created to perform the measurements, being necessary to perform a brief study about its accuracy compared with a mobile phone ambient light sensor and an external sensor. Keywords: lighting measurement, lux meters, mobile sensors, energy efficiency 1. Introduction Street lighting systems are an essential service for modern life which is able to increment night activities whilst reducing crime [18]. However, its main drawback is the high amount of energy needed to provide this service. At present, Spain has one of the highest consumption per lamp in the European Union. To solve this critical situation, the Spanish government established a new standard with the purpose of improving efficiency and energy saving in outdoor lighting: Royal Decree 1890/2008 [24]. To comply with its requirements, it is mandatory to verify operation every five years by measuring several factors including the illuminance level and uniformity. The most common method to evaluate street lighting systems is through the illuminance level because data can be acquired easily for one street [27]. However, a drawback appears when maintenance staff has to evaluate several streets because the amount of man hours brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)