Density Based Traffic Light Control Using IR Sensors and Arduino

Abstract

Abstract: In now day’s traffic congestion consider as a serious issue in all over the world and for the public it become a daily life challenge because they have to face a problem of traffic congestion in their daily life at the time of travelling. In ordinary arrangement traffic problem is solved by traffic police or by the use of automatic traffic light but this arrangements are static and having a fixed time allocation at every side of junction and because of this arrangement they are not capable to perform according to need. And at traffic junction now days we need a dynamic arrangement of traffic lights at the place of static so it can be quickly resolve the problem of traffic if any emergency vehicle is waiting in the queue or as per the need. In this paper we introduced the concept of density based traffic light arrangement which change the colour of traffic light according to density of traffic which is present at a particular side of traffic junction. To know the density of traffic we have to use sensors and IOT technology. In this paper the proposed model is design using IR Sensors and Arduino. IR sensors are used as sensors to detect the density of traffic and Arduino is used as microcontroller. At traffic junction IR sensors are fitted at every side of the junction and sense the number of passing vehicle to each side of junction and interfaced to the arduino. After receiving the input from sensors we know the density of traffic at each side of junction change the traffic light as per the need. So, in this paper we are going to discuss about the density based arrangement of traffic light and the limitation related to it and throw some light related to future work.