Cloud Based Intelligent Traffic System to Implement Traffic Rules Violation Detection and Accident Detection Units

The urbanization process has marked an ever increasing growth in the number of on-road vehicles which has led to a decline in the air quality while an increase in the number of road accidents. In this paper an intelligent system called CBITS has been proposed. CBITS follows a holistic approach as it is well equipped with a network of sensors that provide real-time emission levels as well as it alerts the authorities with location in case of an accident. The system has three main functions: emission monitoring; accident detection; and unique vehicle identification (UVID). CBITS is a highly effective, real-time, light weight, reliable, low-power consuming and a cost effective system for the vehicle-owners as well as the monitoring authorities. Emission sensors bank including NO
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, SOx, CO and Temp sensors while Accelerometer and Force-resistive sensors for Accident detection are used. GSM and GPS modules are used for sharing the location to the cloud. Raspberry Pi (B Plus) is the motherboard used, which has 40 GPIO pins and 4 USB slots which makes the interfacing easy. An Analog-to-Digital converter (MCP3008) is used to provide analog inputs directly to the motherboard.