IOT Based Traffic Monitoring using Raspberry

Pi
Mr. P.Sivasankar *, B.Brindhavathy
Assistant Professor PG Scholar
Dr.Paul‟s Engineering College Dr.Paul‟s Engineering College
Villupuram, Tamilnadu. Villupuram, Tamilnadu.
sankar.siva12@gmail.com jovialbrindha@gmail.com

Abstract: The design and development of a monitoring and managing system for IOT based
traffic monitor is reported in this paper. By increasing of population in recent years the usages
of vehicles have been increased and monitoring and managing it is one of the challenging
works. In existing traffic management system we use RFID tag in vehicle and RFID reader at
each intersection to control its own microcontroller. With the rise of the Internet of Things
(IOT), embedded Web technology goes into the mainstream at present, and various web
scripts and servers support the program running on an embedded device. The proposed
system uses Raspberry Pi which acts as a cloud server to collect, manage and monitor traffic
situations through the Web browsers and also to remotely control the vehicles data. My
project is aimed at improving the existing by incorporating better management and monitoring
schemes as well as providing road users with real time information. The handheld device
which has ARM Controller (LPC2148), RFID reader and GPS antenna. Subsequently, the
vehicles Unique ID and GPS latitude and longitude data are transmitted from ARM controller to
the cloud server and updated into the database using IOT. It also consist of a LED light and
Buzzer, if a crime involved or insurance expired vehicle passes the device then the ARM
controller makes the LED light to glow and also make Buzzer to sound which m akes the
nearby police officer alert.

Keywords: Client /server model, Raspberry Pi.

1.0 INTRODUCTION to enable communication among objects. It is

used rather in a broader sense for defining smart
ecology than IOT. For example, applying sensor
I nternet of Things (IOT) is an emerging
research standard and apparently the
discovery of its body of knowledge is still in an
technology to capture data to make a certain
response is Ubicomp but not IOT. The simple
equation to describe IOT is,
infancy stage. So, the exact definition,
architecture, scope, and standard are still not IOT= Physical Object + Controller, Sensor,
concretely defined and many literatures on IOT Actuators + Internet
have been published in recent years. However,
most scholars agree on the idea of expanding From the equation above, the Internet of
and interpreting the pioneering conceptual Things can be compared to the communication
definition of Kevin Ashton who defined IOT as “a of human. For instance, human have biological
standardized way for computer to understand sensors such as ears, eyes, skin, taste buds,
the real world”. With a key feature to create a etc. to perceive what is happening in their
smart environment together with quick response surroundings. Human use body parts to make
to support certain decisions and/or operations of and receive sounds and require a name to
human, IOT based systems have been proposed enable others to get an attention.
in several applications such as supporting Communication can only succeed when the
disabilities, managing diabetes therapy, building communication medium exists e.g. telephony
smart home, improving safety in mining network, mobile network, and air. In order to let
operations, and using IOT for an intelligent things carry the property similar to human‟s,
relationship and is sometimes interchangeably sensors need to be attached to physical objects
used with a Ubiquitous Computing (or being considered. Objects, both sender and
Ubicomp).The term IOT has a strong connection receiver, must have names, and digital

* Corresponding Author
communication is required as depicted in my with the trial and efficiency model since no
project focuses on the communication between means has been proposed in implementing the
traffic lights and RFID technology is applied to model in the present design.
traffic lights for them to act as an „eye‟ to count
identified tags, i.e. vehicles.. Traffic lights name 3.0 METHODOLOGY
each other by calling RFID Reader name. One
In this project, Raspberry pi is used as a
of the contributions of IOT to human operations
in this scenario is that it can replace human in server by connecting to laptops as clients in the
same network. The work was explored in
doing tedious exhaustive work. For example,
different scenerios,
traffic data can be collected and sent out
persistently, which is nearly impossible when i. client server communication using Wi-Fi,
manual communication is applied.
ii. Client-server communication within localhost
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW for remote file sharing facility. Router is used
to create a wireless network communication
IOT- RFID testbed for supporting traffic light between the devices. In order to carry out the
control[1] The paper investigates a prototype research, several hardware and software
development of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms were required as shown below. The
application for traffic management. The hardware requirements are Raspberry Pi , SD
retrofitted traffic light control solution is proposed card, router, computer. Software
and developed to support decision making of requirements are Any Internet Browsers,
police officers. This paper discusses the on Filezilla, Window 7.
going research on the building of a smart traffic
management system. The advantages of The
practical problem is defined, the solution is
proposed, and the initial test-bed system is
prototyped successfully. The system can figure
out the congestion level of each road at a
specific intersection with the help of R FID
technology. A copy of information is also
concurrently sent to the neighbors to support
decision making at adjacent sites as well.
Another feature of the system is the ability to
track vehicles that are involved in crimes as well
as illegal vehicles. Disadvantages of the project
is the number of issues to be addressed before
the solution can be tested and applied to real-life
problems such as heterogeneity of devices,
concurrency of the services, responding times,
data volume, human factors, and intelligence
recommendations. Controlling of traffic lights
using RFID and neural network[2] In this paper, Fig.1: Implemented model
the new technology of RFID has been used in
order to identify vehicles and also three 4.0 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
significant parameters including the average
speed of vehicles at any side of access point,
the average time for waiting and the queue
length. They have been used based on the data
from neural network for making the best decision
throughout the process of finding out duration of
the cycle and percentage of green time for each
of the access point. Advantages of this project is
Implementation of the system is possible in the
shortest time. It has a better function in any kind
of weather condition, time or place compared to
similar systems. In this control unit, data is
classified and the best decision will be made
based on the received data. Disadvantages of
the project is problems arising due to adverse
weather conditions have not been considered. Fig.2: Raspberry pi connection with different
They system has to be implemented in stages components
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Engineering Work shops (ICDEW), 2013.

[5] R. M. Cardoso, N. Mastelari, and M. F.

Bassora, „Internet of things architecture in the
context of intelligent transportation systems–a
case study towards a web-based application
nd
deployment,‟ presented at 22 International
Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Fig 3: output (COBEM 2013), 2013.

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factors, and intelligence recommendations. In
this project the above parameters are tested by
using small module. In future the same project Author’s Biography
can be made available in Smart device likes
Tablet and mobiles so that it can be easily used B.Brindhavathy received the
anywhere. Upon the success of solving further B.E .degree in the department
issues, the results will be reported in the near of ECE from SRI ARAVINDAR
future. Engineering College
SEDARAPET in 2013, and
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