Real-Time Microservices Based Environmental Sensors System for Hazmat Transportation Networks Monitoring

Abstract

Abstract The transportation of dangerous goods represents one of the most critical risks particularly in urban areas. For example, every day large quantities of hazardous substances are transported by roads or railways inside areas with high density of population. Thus, to ensure urban and public safety the first challenge that we tackle is to find an environmental information system, which is able to provide risk management and monitoring. Moreover, it can capture urban transportation dynamics and offer specific services, visualization, analyses and evaluation of the hazmat risk in various high-risk zones. In addition, due to wireless technologies and real time intelligent sensors, the risk of dangerous goods can be carried out in real time. In this work, we adopt a microservices based architecture to have a real-time environmental sensors system that have highly scalable applications on cloud environment. By definition, this architecture consists of a set of loosely coupled and independently deployable services. In addition, the proposed system is conducted with a smart data collector, visualization abilities and a variety of distributed sensors in order to enhance the hazmat transportation network monitoring. Finally, we show how to integrate efficiently into the system prototype the hazmat routing container embedded microservice, and illustrate the orchestration with other microservices to improve this system with hazmat routing capabilities using various routing algorithms particularly bi-directional A* algorithm. This work constitutes the first step to build the Hazmat planning aid system that provides valuable data and knowledge to urban planner and decision makers