ADDIS ABABA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Department of Electro-Mechanical Engineering

Wireless sensor network project

Wireless sensors to monitor road conditions

Group members
Wolderufael Kasshun………….ETS1148/08
Shamble amare…………………ETS0993/08
Yared bezabih…………………..ETS1168/08
Yerosan tadesse………………...ETS1180/08
Yidnekachew molla……………..ETS1187/08
Yilkal dires………………………ETS1192/08

Submitted to:Mr.Esayas
Submission date: Jan 16,2021
Abstract-Traffic congestion problems are serious Survey of related Projects
problem specially in big cities. In this paper to
Different works has proposed their method to monitor
address this problem we suggest a magnetometer
road condition using wireless sensor networks. In [1]
based wireless sensor networks to detect and count
the effectiveness of a WSN to take real-time traffic
the number of vehicles on the road for effective
information has been studied. A first analysis is done
control of traffic signals. Our aim is to increase the
using a single sensor to detect vehicles approaching to
throughput of a road intersection enabling every
traffic lights. In a second method, two sensors are
car to have a congestion free trip.
positioned on each traffic lane to calculate the queue
Index Terms: traffic congestion, wireless sensor length. The result show that the use of one sensor is
networks, magnetometer not enough to obtain best performance. A new
decentralized TLC based on WSNs is proposed in [2].
Introduction
Its main objective is to improve road monitoring
Traffic systems are large-scale with distributed improving vehicles flow and reducing waiting time at
information by nature. Wireless sensor networks traffic lights. Each of the intersections are
provide effective means for data collecting and characterized by an Intersection Control Agent (ICA)
transmission. This makes them an inseparable part of that receive information from wireless sensors
intelligent transport systems (ITS). WSNs can be distributed along roads and determines the traffic flow
implemented in a very short time and can measure model [3]
several parameters related to vehicular traffic.
In [4] distance measuring sensor is used to get a
Furthermore, sensors nodes have reduced size,
information about the number and type of cars on the
consume low power and can be positioned in various
road, this information is used to minimize the time
places along the road. A wireless sensor network can
vehicles spent in streets and contributes to improve
detect vehicular flow, speed and occupation with high
throughput.
spatial resolutions, come up with a possible solution to
traffic congestion. Problem statement

Large part of intelligent transport systems is focused Traffic congestion is a burning issue in many cities due
on urban transport infrastructure. Inhabitants to the rapid growth of vehicles. There are basically two
accumulation in large cities together with growing types of traffic congestion. The first one is recurring
living standard of common people, which is directly traffic congestion, which occurs at the same place
connected with growing number of vehicles, put during the same time every day. The second one is
highest demands on existing transport infrastructure. non-recurring, which occurs randomly like an
This trend is not only in western developed countries unplanned event. This non-recurring effect can cause
but also in fast growing countries. Significant change an expected traffic volume increase. Congestion is due
of transport infrastructure is usually not possible the inadequate capacity of the roadways to efficiently
because of limited space. Therefore, maximizing of move the number of traveling vehicles on them.
exploitation of existed infrastructure is of highest
interest.
Our contribution is to reducing traffic congestion at Conclusion
road intersections by detecting and counting the
In this paper we have suggested a method to to reduce
number of cars on each of the road using a wireless
traffic congestion at road intersection that can be
sensor network.
implemented on big cities with a low cost and easy for
implementation.

A real-time traffic monitoring system cannot be

guaranteed. Processing of large amounts of real time
traffic data, the run time of the control system and
reliability are the obstacles to be solved to ensure real-
time demand of the urban traffic monitoring system.
There is a need to design an intelligent traffic cloud by
Figure 1 Road intersection making use of cloud computing to solve the problems

Problem solution related to real-time.

Reference

[1] M.Tubaishat, Qi Qi, Yi Shang, Hongchi Shi,

"Wireless Sensor Based Traffic Light Control", 5th
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[2] M.Tubaishat, Y.Shang, H.Shi, "Adaptive Traffic

Light Control with Wireless Sensor Networks", 4th

Figure 2 Sensor nodes on 4 intersection IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking

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