An innovative device for monitoring and controlling vehicular movement in a Smart city

An innovative solution is proposed here to monitor, analyze and control vehicular movement in a city and also in sensitive border areas of the country. Various applications of proposed device are discussed in the paper. The method consists of installing a RF transmitter in a clandestine location along with the vehicle's electronics hardware, compulsorily, by road transport office during registration of vehicle. It is suggested that a particular bandwidth is allocated to these signals. Each and every vehicle continuously broadcasts its own identity through RF transmitter on an allotted frequency (registration number and the speed as obtained from speedometer). Low cost small sized transceivers are planted at various undisclosed locations in city to receive these vital information about of every vehicle crossing the particular transceiver. These locations compulsorily include all the exit points of the city. The transceiver is connected to the main server of police control room where the transmitted data is logged at open source database MySQL. This logging provides the informative data over web for authenticated users. The total cost of such a system which enables real time monitoring, recording and analysis of vehicular movements in a city is comparatively very low and the advantages are very significant. The proposed project serves as next generation proposal for the Smart city initiative of the Government of India. The first application is the generation of data which can be analyzed for constructing flyovers, deciding public transport routes and planning of other infrastructure. The second advantage pertains to online help in traffic control for example the system can be used for diverting vehicles away from congestion zones at peak traffic hours. A third application of this system will be in controlling vehicle theft. This solution may effectively utilized for solving cases of vehicular theft and ‘hit & run’ cases. Last but not the least such data is very valuable and can be sold commercially to real estate developers, vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure planners. This paper provides technical details of such a system and the advantages perceived from it.