Smart traffic monitoring and control architecture and design

The road traffic volume is the main criteria in the road planning and traffic management. Previous studies have discussed on the smart traffic monitoring, and little attention has been paid to the solution of smart traffic control. The objective of this paper is to propose a smart traffic monitoring and control architecture and also the respective algorithm using sensors. This paper assumed that sensors are strategically placed along the road to detect traffic volume. These information will then be transmitted via Low Power Wide Area Network (LoPWAN) to a dedicated control centre. There will be server in the control centre that controls the traffic lights scheduling at the junctions. The proposed solution can be further developed and tested using hardware.