Next Generation Intelligent Traffic Signal Control: Empowering Electronics Consumers With Edge-AIoT Capabilities

Abstract

Traffic congestion has become a major issue that is being faced by the majority of road users. The increasing vehicle usage, and the lack of space and funds to construct new transport infrastructure, further complicates the issue. In this scenario, it is important to come up with an intelligent and economical solution that improves the quality of road users’ service. The problem with the traffic handling framework is signal timings are fixed which is not adaptive to the density of vehicles. To address this issue we propose an Edge-Augument Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) road user cooperation for traffic management. The proposed system efficiently utilizes electronic devices to learn and adapt to changing traffic conditions in real-time. By optimizing the traffic signal timings based on the actual traffic conditions, adaptive systems reduce delay, improve traffic flow, reduce fuel consumption and pollution, and improve the electronics consumers’ and road users’ experiences. The proposed system has been tested with real-time experiments by integrating Electronic devices like cameras, smartphones, and AGX Xavier (edge device) with Cloud (ThingSpeak). The proposed system is verified by simulating the proposed system in the SUMO traffic simulator and its reliability is concluded by comparing the waiting time, depart delay, running, and halt time with the existing traditional method.