scholarly journals Pedestrian-safer IoT-based Smart Crossing System with Object Tracking

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1948-1953
Keyword(s):  
Object Tracking ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Road Crossing ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Populous Country

In the field of technical research the Internet of Things (IoT) has become an interesting topic. The device is interconnected over the internet. We usually think of IoT in terms of independently owned cars and smart homes, but in extreme practical matters one of the best applications of IoT technology. In many disciplines, IoT is increasing rapidly from a technical point of view, in particular with the smart crossing system. In the meantime, it is a very populous country in Bangladesh. A lot of people cross the street every day. A lot of wide roads are to be crossed in Bangladesh. Even dead troubles. There is a lot of vehicles on the lane. There are many wide roads in Bangladesh that are a lot to cross. Troubles, even dead ones. Many vehicles are on the road. Bangladesh is also a developing country, and the laws of road crossing are not very strict, in which case it is very important to have a pedestrian-safer IoT-based smart crossing system with object tracking. Often people are facing an accident, in particular school children have trouble crossing the road, old people face the same problem. A cost-effective solution to this issue is the key contribution of this paper using a simple framework based on Arduino UNO R3. The device is fully autonomous and can calculate the planned parameters of a pedestrianized IoT-based, smart crossing platform with object tracking in an efficient way. Ultrasonic sensors and one IR sensor were used for measuring the parameters needed for the device. Moreover, in Bangladesh this program is more important and essential. This smart crossing system detects people as well as reduce road accidents.

scholarly journals Increasing the uniformity of road surface loading to extend its service life

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
R. V. Andronov ◽  
◽  
B. P. Elkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Life ◽  
Asphalt Concrete ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Road ◽  
Optimal Value ◽  
Scientific Substantiation ◽  
Research Experiment ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Pilot Implementation

The study reveals the problem of heterogeneous loading of road surfacing with vehicle wheels, which leads to the rapid appearance of rutting on the road within 2-3 years and increases the burden on the budgets of the road sectors of cities, regions and the country. The most cost-effective way of extending the service life of road surfacing is presented, namely, periodic shifting of the rolling strips (PSRS), which has passed the stages of research, experiment and the beginning of pilot implementation, but it has not yet found a wide application. The authors review the materials of research on asphalt concrete on rutting testers, asphalt concrete surfacing on the tracks and beyond them, as a scientific substantiation for engineering innovation. The optimal value of the periodic road markup offset is determined from the point of view of probability theory. It is proposed to actively apply the PSRS method on the roads of cities and regions in different climatic zones.

Smart Vehicular System based on the Internet of Things

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Midde Ranjit Reddy ◽  
K. G Srinivasa ◽  
B. Eswara Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
The Road ◽  
Smart Parking ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Assistive Systems ◽  
The Internet Of Things

With the advent of smart city and its implications, different components of the smart city such as traffic, pollution monitoring, infotainment and others need to be considered as well for enabling the complete smartness. One of the major components of the smart city is regulation of traffic and its standards for smooth vehicular movement and it depends on the road conditions and environment. Road conditions provide valuable information for developing assistive systems for the vehicles and to be provided and trained with different road conditions for better accuracy and finally enabling the smartness around the system. With the increasing vehicular population around the globe and in developing countries like India, assistive systems based on Internet of Things (IoT) play a major role in developing smart systems for the vehicles. Once the population of the vehicles increases, assistive systems need a smart mechanism for parking as well. The proposed Internet of things (IoT) based system provides the user with different conditions of the road and a smart parking solution.

scholarly journals RMSRS: Rover Multi-purpose Surveillance Robotic System

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3(Suppl.)) ◽  
pp. 1049
Author(s):  
Muaad Issa AL-TAMEEMI
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Road ◽  
Long Time ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The development of the internet of things (IoT) and the internet of robotics (IoR) are becoming more and more involved with our daily lives. It serves a variety of tasks some of them are essential to us. The main objective of SRR is to develop a surveillance system for detecting suspicious and targeted places for users without any loss of human life. This paper shows the design and implementation of a robotic surveillance platform for real-time monitoring with the help of image processing, which can explorer places of difficult access or high risk. The robotic live streaming is via two cameras, the first one is fixed straight on the road and the second one is dynamic with tilt-pan ability. All cameras have image processing capabilities to analyze, detect and track objects plus few other graphical functions. The components mentioned above built on top of the four-wheel vehicle system with high torque to provide mobility on rough terrain. This work is based on Raspberry Pi and can be controlled over Wi-Fi locally or publicly over the internet. The results show making a high potential, relatively low price robot with lots of features and functions that can perform multiple tasks simultaneously, all are crucial to surveillance and monitoring problems, controlled by a user from far distances and for a long time.

Strategies for Promoting the Use of Concrete Pavements in Tanzania: Technical and Institutional Considerations

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
D.A. Mfinanga ◽  
H. Bwire
Keyword(s):  
Road Construction ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
Concrete Pavements ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
The Road ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Resource Requirements ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Economic Developments

High-type roads in Tanzania have been predominantly of asphaltic concrete construction. This ever enlarging and ageing asphaltic road network represents increasing resource requirements on the road agency in the form of maintenance. Limited resources coupled with the ever sky-rocketing costs of petroleum products and the competing demands of social economic developments, presupposes the need to look for alternative road construction technology that is more cost-effective and resource optimising. Experience gained from developed and some developing countries where concrete pavements have been widely used suggests the potential of this type of pavement in many developingcountries. This paper discusses the technical aspects of design and construction- and maintenance-related aspects of concrete pavements. The discussion extends further to highlight issues pertaining to the performance of concrete pavements and strategies for promoting the use of concrete pavements in Tanzania. Conclusions and recommendationsare made with suggestions on how to start implementing the proposed strategies.

CHILDREN ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A ROAD SAFETY APPLICATION

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nassiriah Shaari ◽  
Aeni Zuhana Saidin ◽  
Asmidah Alwi
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
The Road ◽  
Usability Test ◽  
Safety Awareness ◽  
Safety Application ◽  
On The Road

Road safety campaigns and programs have been extensively introduced and implemented in Malaysia. However, their effectiveness is still being debated. Children especially will become the unfortunate victims of road accidents if they are unaware of the danger and precaution actions to be safe on the road. In response to that, this paper introduces an application as an alternative that inculcates road safety awareness to further support existing related programs and campaigns. Particularly, an interactive web application incorporating interactive multimedia elements has been designed and evaluated. Results on the usability test indicate a promising success and highlight aspects and issues that can be further focused for improvement and enhancement. 

Relationship between Laboratory Abrasion Tests and Service Performance

1949 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 838-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Griffith ◽  
E. B. Storey ◽  
J. W. D. Barkley ◽  
F. M. McGilvray
Keyword(s):  
Abrasion Resistance ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Viscous Material ◽  
The Road ◽  
Canadian National Research Council ◽  
Air Jet ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Department Of National Defence

Abstract In development work on GR-S commercial recapping compounds originated in 1943 by the Directorate of Mechanical Engineering, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, Canada, in which an attempt was made to correlate road performance with physical properties as determined in the laboratory, it was found that no relationship whatever existed between the results of road tests carried out under the supervision of that directorate and standard laboratory abrasion resistance tests carried out in the Canadian National Research Council Rubber Laboratory at Ottawa. In the laboratory test the sandpaper in the abrasion machine became coated with a smear of tacky viscous material which the air jet was unable to remove. Under these conditions the rubber tends to slide over the sandpaper surface, with relatively little actual abrasion of the rubber. The effect remains even after a considerable overcure of the sample. It was felt that the removal of the tacky viscous material from vulcanized GR-S by extraction might give more reliable abrasion resistance results, inasmuch as, on the road, rubber is constantly coming in contact with a new surface and such viscous material is thus being continually removed as it migrates to the surface of the rubber. From this point of view, then, the tread surface while being abraded on the road may be looked upon as extracted rubber and may be considered as conforming closely to the extracted laboratory specimen.

scholarly journals Nine Recommendations for the Safety on Road both of the People and the Traffic Police

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Madhur Dev Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Traffic Police ◽  
The Road ◽  
The People ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Injured Patients

Safety of people and traffic police on road and the provision of prompt and appropriate treatment of injured persons in road accident are urgent concerns. The nine recommendations accordingly made are 1) Considering anyone who informs about or brings to the hospitals the accident victims as innocent until proved otherwise, 2) Annual payment by all vehicle owners (as per the cost of vehicles) to generate treatment fund for any road accident injured patients in the free general (not paying or private or extended health service) outdoor or emergency clinics or ward of the public hospitals irrespective of anyone’ fault in the accident (insurance or other agencies may be assigned to handle the amount deposited and reimbursement of the payments to the hospitals), 3) Implementation of helmet wearing by motorcycle riders and pillion riders in motorcycles, 4) Stricter fine for hazardous traffic offenses, 5) Drivers of the larger vehicles should not automatically be held responsible for any accidents involving other smaller vehicles (to prevent smaller vehicles and motorcycles to drive recklessly), 6) Drivers should not be just held responsible to bear health expenses of injured patients (which is much more than the compensation required in the event of death of injured persons); this is to encourage drivers to take injured persons immediately to hospitals and prevent inclination to allow their deaths indirectly or directly; the drivers should be proportionately fined or punished as per the traffic regulations if they are found to be negligent, 7) Safe and visible platform for the traffic police to stay on the road, 8) Provision of cost-effective respirators for traffic police and traffic supervisors, and 9) Compensation for occupational hazards to the traffic police and field traffic supervisors by distributing to them adequate proportion (e.g. one-third to one-half) of the fund collected by stricter fine paid for the hazardous traffic offences. Provision of various allowances, including for hazards, and benefits is a common practice in the country. Compensation for the occupational hazards of the traffic police provides incentives to and motivates them to remain vigilant about hazardous traffic offenses day and night everywhere and, thus, is essential for the safety of the people.   

scholarly journals Semiotization of Time in Virtual Narrative

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Elena Samoylova
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
The Way

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the phenomenon of virtual narrative and its connection to the phenomenon of Internet of things. Modern virtual narrative is a complex, syncretic phenomenon, alludes to the different cultural, historical and even mythological subjects and objects. But with the development of new technologies, such as the Internet of Things, virtual narrative became to be some kind of independent phenomenon. Moreover, the Internet of things (which is not clerly identified phenomen itself from the philosophic point of view) uses the virtual narrative as one of the components, for example applaying some methond of virtual narrative in creating advertisments, creating messages in musiams, exposititions etc. So, in our paper we will analyze this both phenomena, their connections and the way of its development.

scholarly journals Designing Traffic Signal at an Unsignalized Intersection

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Prachi Agrawal ◽  
Preeti Kumari ◽  
Dr. Manish Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Programming Language ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Traffic Signal ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Intersections ◽  
Smooth Movement ◽  
On The Road

The increasing number of vehicles on the road intersections has given rise to many problems like road accidents, congestions add conflicts. These problems can only be solved by deigning proper traffic signal at intersections for continuous and smooth movement of vehicles Nagpur- though the smart city- is also facing the same problem. This paper presents the proper designing and simulation of traffic signal at an unsignalized intersection at Nagpur. The paper deals with the simulation of designed signal through a programming language like Python.

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