Fault Monitoring System for Traffic Light

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2020

The IoT (Internet of Things) is a blooming technology that mainly concentrates on the interconnection of devices or components to one another and the people. As the time being, many of these connections are changing as-Device-Device‖ from-Human to Device‖. Finding the faulty street light automatically is become a vital milestone by using this technology. The primary goal of the project is to provide control and identification of the damaged street light automatically. The lighting system which targets the energy and automatic operation on economical affordable for the streets and immediate information response about the street light fault. In general, the damage of the street light is observed by getting the complaints from the colony (street) people. Whereas in this proposed work using sensors these lights working status is easily captured without any manual interaction. So that it reduces manual efforts and the delay to fix problems. So, to reduce such problem we come with the solution wherein automatic detection of street light issues i.e.; whether the street light is working or not will be found at night time and it should send the notification to the authorized person if there is a problem in particular streetlight and also the location of the place where the streetlight is damaged. The street lights are automatically ON/OFF using IoT. In this system, it checks whether the street light is ON/ OFF. The LDR sensor will ON/OFF the street lights automatically, based on the condition of the weather.

International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Research, 2017

The idea behind this project is to design and implement a Portable Traffic Light Controller using embedded system platform. Nowadays, due to increase in the population in cities, the number of automobiles have also increased rapidly. Also, due to large time delays between the traffic lights, the problem of traffic congestion is rising. In addition to thisall smart traffic light projects require expensive sensors and are not practically effective in implementation as in high density country like India most of the cities and towns are unplanned. In order to overcome these problems and for smooth traffic flow, a practical traffic controller is required. The standard traffic light systems follow a set amount of time for all the lights, i.e. red, green, and yellow. However, in case of emergency or high traffic density from one side, the duration of these lights pose a great hindrance in the smooth flow of traffic thus causing highly crowded traffic on the road with very less go ahead time. In order to remove these problems, a smart control system has been designed in order to switch the lights from automatic to manual mode where light delays could be changed as per the traffic density on the roads. This traffic light control system is portable, easy to implement, cost effective and field deployable as compared to other bulky controllers.

In this paper, a self diagnostic system for maintenance of traffic light system is developed. The quality of light produced by the light emitting element of traffic light system at remote site is monitored via graphical user interface (GUI). The remote system’s status report obtained from the GUI helps the maintenance operator(s) to change or repair the traffic light head at appropriate time. The remote site consists of a prototype T-Junction traffic light, controlled by an intelligent processor (microcontroller) which also monitors and diagnoses fault(s) in the system and alerts the central server via GSM modem interfaced to it. The microcontroller emulates the attention (AT) command of the modem and uses it to send fault alert in form of short message service (SMS) to the host server. The server has GSM receiver interface to it through a smart level converter (max 232). The tools used in the development of the prototype T-junction traffic light include proteus Virtual Simulation Module Software Development Kit (VSMSDK) used to develop the GUI and the host server, macro integrated development environment(MIDE) used to edit and assembly the software program. Wellon programmer was used to transfer the assembled program to the microcontroller chip. The results showed that proteus professional, though primarily a virtual development tool can also be used for real time development of a prototype embedded system, reducing design-market time. Keywords: Self diagnostic, graphical user interface, proteus VSM, real time development, prototype embedded system

Present Traffic Light Controllers (TLC) are based on microcontroller and microprocessor. These TLC have limitations because it uses the pre-defined hardware, which is functioning according to the program that does not have the flexibility of modification on real time basis. Due to the fixed time intervals of green, orange and red signals the waiting time is more and car uses more fuel. To make traffic light controlling more efficient, we exploit the emergence of new technique called as "Intelligent traffic light controller". This makes the use of Sensor Networks along with Embedded Technology. The timings of Red, Green lights at each crossing of road will be intelligently decided based on the total traffic on all adjacent roads. Thus, optimization of traffic light switching increases road capacity and traffic flow, and can prevent traffic congestions. GSM cell phone interface is also provided for users those who wish to obtain the latest position of traffic on congested roads. This is a unique feature of this project which is very useful to car drivers to take an alternate route in case of congestion. The various performance evaluation criteria are average waiting time, average distance traveled by vehicles, switching frequency of green light at a junction, efficient emergency mode operation and satisfactory operation of SMS using GSM Mobile. The performance of the Intelligent Traffic Light Controller is compared with the Fixed Mode Traffic Light Controller. It is observed that the proposed Intelligent Traffic Light Controller is more efficient than the conventional controller in respect of less waiting time, more distance traveled by average vehicles and efficient operation during emergency mode and GSM interface. Moreover, the designed system has simple architecture, fast response time, user friendliness and scope for further expansion.

Journal of King Abdulaziz University-Engineering Sciences, 2010

In this paper monitoring and operating light system has been designed. The main idea is to detect the failure of each light within a street or area. It indicates the location of the failing lights and resets the display once the light is fixed and maintained. The system is designed to continuously monitor street lights during operation hours. To perform the proposed task first to design the circuit and then developing software which control, and manage operation of lights. Design of a friendly user window which represents a graphical model in order to monitor the operation of the system is another task. A laboratory size model which represents certain street or zone have been designed. Tests has been performed in order to show the effectiveness of the proposed design

—Vehicle Information and Communication System (VICS) is starting to become practicable. The infrared system of VICS detects vehicles on the road by using optical beacons to control traffic and to supply real-time traffic information. But it needs an enormous budget because the optical beacons must be located on every lane of the road throughout the country. In this paper, we propose a traffic information system using existing LED traffic lights, and focus on its visible rays and power used for traffic control, the number and location of the traffic lights, and the movement toward LED traffic lights. We design the best service area not to interfere with other service areas and analyze its basic performance such as the suitable modulation, required SNR and the amount of receivable information.

IJRASET , 2021

Wise city management, good road management is one of the most important things. Traffic congestion can be effectively controlled, provided that the number of vehicles passing through a traffic junction can be determined in advance. The proposed approach introduces a framework, which has the potential to continuously transmit traffic and generate alarms in the event of a major traffic congestion at the Sangli control station or in similar Indian cities. The number of vehicles passing through the area well before the required road junction can be estimated using the help of image processing techniques. In addition, monitoring information can be shared with a remote control centre near the city via the Internet. The tests performed show the effectiveness of this Internet-based technology (IoT) technology.

Indian Scientific Journal Of Research In Engineering And Management, 2023

This project involves the design and implementation of an automated street light control system and an underground drainage monitoring system using GSM technology. Besides this, it can also check the status of the manhole lid. The system's low maintenance and low cost are some of its main advantages. This system can monitor the status of the street lights and manholes in real time. It can also notify the officials through a text message.

Now-a-days, it became essential for people work during nights and returning back to homes late nights; also increasing crime rate during night times. This can be best achieved by implementing proper solar based lighting system on Streets. The efficient monitoring and controlling of this lighting system must be taken into account. We will get more power consumption, saving money through solar panel. Also saving precious time, decrease the huge human power through from the LDR, IR Sensors. The Street lights are controlled through a specially designed Graphical User Interface (GUI) in the PC. The Zigbee technology can be used for the street lights monitoring and controlling at the PC end.

IJIREEICE

In this paper, Traffic Light Controller using Arduino is designed and experimentally tested. The proposed Arduino Traffic Light Controller Project is simple and can be easily understood. Here we have demonstrated Traffic lights for the 3 ways road and the code glows LED"s on all the three sides in a particular sequence, in which the actual Traffic Lights works.