Internet-of-Things Based Smart Local Bus Transport Management System

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a state of art paradigm that makes any electronic apparatus as part of the Internet atmosphere. IoT is about mounting sensors (RFID, IR etc.) for everything, furthermore, interfacing them to web through protocols for data exchange and communications, to attain smart recognition, location tracking, supervising and controlling. In current work, we invented a novel IoT based framework to develop Smart Local Bus Transportation System (SLBTS). The proposed system comprises of electronic device that is located in the moving public vehicle which provides real time data, a cloud server that absorbs this data, application software installed at bus depot and a mobile application for commuters travelling in buses. The devices gather substantial amount of information like number of passengers travelling, vehicle speed, fuel level, engine temperature and being connected to internet the collected information is synched up with cloud server to convert it into some useful data. Passengers in turn can check the status of bus on mobile app by entering bus number. The current work, realizes the full potential of IoT, also discourses its several challenges and advances the conceptual solutions to tackle them.