Smart Traffic Monitoring System with Data Sharing in Internet of Things

Abstract

In recent years’ traffic congestion is a major problem in India, which affects modern city’s daily life routine and environments. Traffic monitoring and controlling is the biggest challenge on traffic management authorities. Traffic management is largely governed by traffic police and signal lights that contribute to the exorbitant long wait for vehicles due to an inefficient configuration. In many urban areas, most of the traffic signals are based on a fixed cycle protocol, which is a reason for the inefficient controlling. Thus, there is an immoderate need to enhance and automate these traffic systems. However, some automatic traffic signals present that require costly machines. Proposed work uses IoT technology to identifies the traffic conditions based on vehicle numbers on road and makes decisions for a control system with sharing their data synchronously with each other. In addition, the proposed system can send traffic signal data to cloud server by which people can retrieve traffic situation anywhere. Real-time traffic retrieval can help people to reduce travel time. Proposed system uses different sensing devices to count vehicles, RFID sensor to detect emergency vehicle and cloud technology to share data between signals and people. Use of sensing devices makes this system more efficient and cost-effective.