Development of a prototype to detect speed limit violation for better traffic management

Abstract

Due to the extreme fast movement of traffic in the busy localities, the cases of road accidents are increasing day by day. Traffic Control Board made different speed limit for different places to limit the speed, but it is not possible to always monitor the infringements manually due to several factors. This paper proposes development of a prototype by which the Traffic Control Board automatically gets the details of the over speed vehicles in any place. Specifically, a network of Master XBees are installed in every locality that will broadcast the information regarding the speed limit of the region. The vehicle will have a device that has a CPU, a speedometer along with another XBee. This XBee will get the speed limit of the region from the Master XBee and the CPU will compare that with the instantaneous speed of the vehicle. If the instantaneous speed is higher than the speed limit of the region then a warning message will be displayed and a particular time slot is given to check the speed. After the time if the speed is not reduced, then the information regarding the Registration number of the vehicle is transmitted to the master XBee. This information is then stored into a server, from which the data can be accessed anywhere via internet. We have also developed the prototype of the Web Monitoring System by which the data can be accessed from the server.