Tree-like Street Light

Create an forest-like city and challenge more SDG .

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Inspiration

Inspired by the mechanism of forest. As seeing many streetlights on the road, I am thinking can I develop the streetlights to more sustainable streetlights that acts like a tree. It can generate electricity and help to reduce CO2 in the air.

What it does

Tree-like Street Light is designed to reduce the risk of flooding and turn the excess water to generate electricity and reduce the possibility of water scarcity happens in the selected area in the future. It also have a water system that be build to manage the flow of excess water during flood and prevent waste of water during flood as the water collected will be reuse after water be treated.

Tree-like Street light is inspired by the mechanism of forest. When heavy rain, rain water will be collected through the funnel shaped street light and the drain channel under the street light. Some water will be absorbed by the tube of the street light that contain orbeez that use to provide water to the plant that planted on the street light. After the water enters the concrete drain underneath the street light, rubbish, oil, grease and debris will be trapped in the catch basin that contain drain insert. The water from small sewage system nearby and catch basin will flow through the micro-hydro turbine to generate electricity. The funnel shaped street light has solar panel on it to generate electricity to light up the street at night. The water collected from the street light will later flow to the small sewage treatment system to be purified. When there is excess water during flood, the water will flow to river. However, when the water level of river is high, there will be a water gate that will close due to water pressure and the excess water will flow to nearby lakes, ponds and another water treatment system. The purified water be used to provide continuous water to micro-hydro turbine to generate electricity and be drank by residents. Only clean recycled water will be supply to the resident.

How we built it

-Have not do prototype but have done draft in 3d form

Challenges we ran into

-The rubbish will affect the water flow to generate electricity. -Have not do experiment to see its workability

Accomplishments that we're proud of

-Have won Gold Award in SiCEx COMPETITION USM 2021 -Have won Silver Award in I2CreaTE-2021

What we learned

-Keep improve Tree-like Street Light to a more sustainable and affordable street light -Try to challenge more Sustainable Development Goal

What's next for Tree-like Street Light

-Semi-permeable road pavement that can generate electricity through osmosis

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