scholarly journals Proposed Algorithm for Smart Traffic Control using Ultrasonic Sensors

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3912-3915
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Traffic Density ◽  
Signal Timing ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Ultrasonic Sensors ◽  
Traffic Control System ◽  
Smart Traffic

In India, the concept of smart city has evolved since last few years. Smart city includes smart electricity distributions, smart parking, smart lighting on streets, smart water distribution, smart drainage system, smart pipe gas system, smart traffic control system etc. All smart systems listed need smart use of technical solution so that all systems will play critical role in making city as smart. As far as smart traffic control is concerned, there were few solutions suggested and implanted such as sensor with CCTV, camera with IR sensor and tags etc. The technical solution may include software, hardware, communication models, networking, usage of data and of-course data analytics. As large amount of data may be generated by the objects/components involved in the system, it must be analyzed properly. The data may be in structured or un-structured format. In this paper, smart traffic control system with efficient algorithm has been proposed with data analytics to control traffic, which controls the timing of the signal dynamically. At a junction, there is need to control the traffic and signal timing such that air and noise pollution also will be monitored and controlled. In this model, IoT system has been proposed with ultrasonic sensors to control the traffic. The signal timing will be dynamically monitored and adjusted with traffic density within a region. This will give solution to control, monitor the traffic at every signal in a city

Intelligent Traffic Control System Using Ad-Hoc Wireless sensor Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-335
Author(s):  
J. Isaac Henderson ◽  
M. Aravind
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Traffic Density ◽  
Data Format ◽  
Infrared Technology ◽  
Traffic Control System ◽  
Signal Time

This paper deals with designing an automatic traffic control  system which works on principle of TRAFFIC DENSITY monitored by  Sensors on each side which provides direct information to microcontroller  which rerforms decision making to allow traffic based on density. The three density zones are low, medium and high. In each zone an ad hoc sensor is placed. Each sensor will check the presence of the vehicle in the zone using infrared technology and then ad hoc sensor sends the data to master ad hoc. To locate the sensor, each sensor of different zone is addressed by user and that address is fed to the master ad hoc sensor. This master ad hoc sensor will arrange the data from various sensors in an 8 bit data format. It then performs the required processing to determine the green signal time for each side. It has an exceptional system for high priority vehicles like ambulance, as it senses the direction of arrival of these vehicles and gives a green corridor. The main advantage over conventional system is that a side with heavy traffic doesn’t have to wait unreasonably while a side with no/less traffic gets an equal  amount of time as that of heavy traffic side which is irascible. This is an improved system based on preference for urgency/density of traffic. This can prove useful in especially Junctions of importance, thereby mediating traffic flow correctly.

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