A survey on IoT based road traffic surveillance and accident detection system (A smart way to handle traffic and concerned problems)

Abstract

Road Traffic is one of the most vital problem in our hastily developing world. This paper presents of study of different aspects and issues related to the problem. This paper emphasizes on using prominent technology — Internet of Things (IoT) for developing smart system to monitor various parameters related to road traffic and using it for effective solution. The survey of the existing systems and concerned techniques related to the problem area are discussed. Different issues like vehicle detection, occlusion detection, lane projectile detection, accident detection and related methods to solve these issues are explored. We propose our “IoT based traffic monitoring and accident detection system” consisting of Raspberry pi, and pi camera as hardware which will use live video as input and process it for gathering information about the live traffic. The system generates information regarding the traffic such as number of vehicles, emergency accident situations, and improper projectile of vehicle. The generated information can be used to handle and divert the live traffic as needed to avoid the problems related to road traffic.