Abstract
Currently, in Baghdad, vehicles driver still depends on the police of traffic to regulate the traffic system according to the density of traffic. There has been made a lot of researches on making the traffic signals automated by using image processing techniques, infra-Red Sensor, and laser sensors. The cost and complicity are the biggest challenge in these systems.
 So, to avoid the previously mentioned obstacles and with the employing of Machine to Machine M2M Communication, a system of traffic signaling that based ultrasonic sensor has been developed, where only one ultrasonic sensor is used at each road at 500 meters down the street away from the traffic light where there's obvious traffic congestion that needs to be solved. The ultra-sonic sensor would detect the density of traffic and communicate to Arduino that is responsible for acquiring signals from sensors on the roads which in turn will communicate with other Arduino which is responsible for manipulating the traffic light signals accordingly.
 So, as a result, the collected data will help the authorized person in monitoring the roads and change the green light time of each road based on traffic density in a specified date and time also take a report where the analysis will be made on heavy traffic and less traffic.
Highlights
The whole World is technologically growing and Iraq is no exception from that
The proposed system is a smart traffic controlling system where an Ultrasonic sensor installed on one side of road 500 meters down the road and another set of magnetic field senor that detect the presence of ambulance in the road and both of them send signals to the first microcontroller, the one that controls the sensors which in turn communicate to the second microcontroller, the one that manipulates the traffic light to take the appropriate action
Only one sensor will be placed on one side of the road that can sense the assigned degree of the magnetic field that we install at the ambulance all the changes that will be applied to the traffic system will be gathered by a data acquisition software Parallax Data Acquisition tool (PLX-DAQ) software which is an add-in for Microsoft Excel that acquires up to 26 data channels from any microcontrollers and put the numbers into columns as they arrive. (PLX-DAQ) collect the data from all the sensors, the traffic light status along with the date and time, and send a report in the shape of a spreadsheet to the authorized people to make analysis and control the system
Summary
The whole World is technologically growing and Iraq is no exception from that. And by using the huge growth in information technology IT and many other technologies, people used to employ a comfortable way of living like Smart Television, electrically charged Vehicles, etc., transportation is no exception from that, people head to use their cars for stepping out instead of waiting in crowded public transportation. The traffic system nowadays in Iraq still relies on the human for controlling it depends on traffic density. The traffic system currently is old fashioned and sometimes manually controlled where the Traffic police officer is in charge of organizing the passage of cars based on the traffic density. This situation is very unreliable because most of the time you don’t see the police officer personally controlling the traffic which will be the reason for traffic congestion on the roads. For the sake of solving these problems, a lot of researches has been done by using communication strategy and information technology for organizing the system of traffic signaling
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