Open AccessPRIORITY BASED TRAFFIC LIGHTS CONTROLLER USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Author(s) -
K. Shruthi,
K Vinodha
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of electronic signal and systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2231-5969
DOI - 10.47893/ijess.2013.1100
Subject(s) - floating car data , computer science , controller (irrigation) , traffic congestion , wireless sensor network , traffic signal , real time computing , advanced traffic management system , computer network , wireless , network traffic control , traffic optimization , vehicle information and communication system , intelligent transportation system , traffic bottleneck , engineering , transport engineering , telecommunications , road traffic , agronomy , network packet , biology
Vehicular traffic is continuously increasing around the world, especially in large urban areas. The resulting congestion has become a major concern to transportation specialists and decision makers. The existing methods for traffic management, surveillance and control are not adequately efficient in terms of performance, cost, maintenance, and support. In this paper, the design of a system that utilizes and efficiently manages traffic light controllers is presented. In particular, we present an adaptive traffic control system based on a new traffic infrastructure using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). These techniques are dynamically adaptive to traffic conditions on both single and multiple intersections. An intelligent traffic light controller system with a new method of vehicle detection and dynamic traffic signal time manipulation is used in the project. The project is also designed to control traffic over multiple intersections and follows international standards for traffic light operations. A central monitoring station is designed to monitor all access nodes..