IMPLEMENTATION OF 3G BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK AMONG NODESS OF THE TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM

Abstract

Traffic congestion is a challenging problem today because of increasing number of vehicles day by day. To overcome this problem, an economical solution is to administer the traffic flow. Traffic Modeling is a technique that is used to manage and control the flow of traffic. A distributed camera network based traffic model has been designed that extracts video based features and processes the same to classify the road condition as open, slight congestion, heavy congestion or traffic jam. The work successfully monitors traffic conditions across a road; however it does not include a communication module to transfer traffic statistics to the server. This traffic system involves extracting the features (SIP and STIP) from the video frames generated by the camera. The number of SIP is indicative of number of vehicles on a road and ratio of STIP to number of SIP is suggestive of percentage of moving vehicles. To enable sharing of traffic statistics among nodes, we need to establish a wireless network. Also, we intend to upload traffic status of roads to the server over the internet, so that any user can access the same to know about present traffic state at a particular road. This project intends to implement this wireless network using 3G network. The same 3G network can be used to upload the data over the server, the server then processes the received data from various local traffic monitoring systems using suitable algorithms and based on the results it issues traffic statistics, which can be utilized to administer the traffic flow.