IOT Based Traffic Management System
IOT Based Traffic Management System
ABSTRACT
Article Info In 2014, 54% of the total global population was urban residents. The prediction
Volume 7, Issue 4 was a growth of nearly 2% each year until 2020 leading to more pressure on the
Page Number: 184-187 transportation system of cities. Cities should be making their streets run smarter
Publication Issue : instead of just making them bigger or building more roads. This leads to the
July-August-2021 proposed system which will use a Raspberry pi and Camera for tracking the
Article History number of vehicles leading to time-based monitoring of the system.
Accepted : 06 July 2021 Keywords : Raspberry Pi, Firebase, Camera
Published : 13 July 2021
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Humans can interact with the gadgets to set them up, Therefore, it may not be able to solve the problem of
give them instructions or access the data, but the traffic congestion. In India, it has been seen that even
devices do most of the work on their own without after the presence of traffic lights, traffic police
human intervention. Their existence has been made officials are on duty, which means that in this system
possible by all the tiny mobile components that are more manpower is required and it is not economical
available these days, as well as the always-online in nature.
nature of our home and business networks.
Connected devices also generate massive amounts of B. PROPOSED SYSTEM
Internet traffic, including loads of data that can be
used to make the devices useful, but can also be The first and primary element of this system is the
mined for other purposes. All this new data, and the camera. The cameras interact with the physical
Internet-accessible nature of the devices, raises both environment, meaning vehicles presence or absence
privacy and security concerns. But this technology while the camera data is sent to the database for
allows for a level of real-time information that we training the module for further prediction. The
have never had before. cameras transmit status based on the presence of
vehicles near it.
We can monitor our homes and families remotely to
keep them safe. Businesses can improve processes to The camera transmits the data at specified time
increase productivity and reduce material waste and intervals to the processor (raspberry pi), it processes
unforeseen downtime. Sensors in city infrastructure the data and sends the processed data to the
can help reduce road congestion and warn us when controller. The computed data from Raspberry pi is
infrastructure is in danger of crumbling. Gadgets out then transmitted to the controller through Wi-Fi
in the open can monitor for changing environmental connectivity. The controller makes use of the
conditions and warn us of impending disasters. collected data to perform the Intelligent Traffic
routing.
III. SYSTEM ANALYSIS
In this system, the primary aim is to gather the
information of moving vehicles and provide them a
A. EXISTING SYSTEM
clear path till their destinations and traffic signals
The existing traffic system is generally controlled by
should switch automatically to give a clear way for
the traffic police. The main drawback of this system
these vehicles.
controlled by the traffic police is that the system is
not smart enough to deal with the traffic congestion.
In this proposed system, the traffic lights are LEDs
and the cameras. Both blocks are connected to a
The traffic police official can either block a road for
raspberry Pi using physical wires. The Node MCU is
more time or let the vehicles on another road pass by
the traffic light controller which receives the
i.e. the decision making may not be smart enough
collected camera data and manages the traffic lights
and it entirely depends on the official’s decision.
by switching between green, yellow and red. The
Moreover, even if traffic lights are used, the time
raspberry pi computes the number of vehicles in the
interval for which the vehicles will be shown a green
street of the intersection it is monitoring based on the
or red signal is fixed.
distances measured by the camera and the timing
between those measurements. The raspberry pi then
VI. CONCLUSION
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