Design and Prototype of an In-Vehicle Road Sign
Delivery System using RFID
Aritra Paul*
, Nischit Bharadwaj*
, Arjun S Bhat*
, Sameera Shroff*
, VenkateshSeenanna*
, Prof. Sitharam TG#
*Department of Instrumentation Technology, R.V College of Engineering
R.V Vidyaniketan Post, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059, Karnataka, India
#Chairman, CiSTUP, Indian Institute of Science, Malleswaram, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
Abstract— The following paper documents the development of an RFID based system that alerts vehicle drivers about approaching road oddities at an optimum distance before encountering them. The objective is to design a wireless system that delivers road signs (and other road-related information) to the commuter inside his/her vehicle visually and aurally, at an appropriate distance before encountering the corresponding road aberrations. The final aim is to bring about a change in the current road safety paradigm by providing a more efficient and ergonomic electronic alternative to static road signs. In addition to reducing dependency on road signs, the device will also aid in averting accidents and traffic jams, and in better implementing traffic law and order.
Keywords – RFID, Active Tags, UHF, beacon rate, LCD module,
UART, Arduino, road oddities, road signs, traffic safety
I. INTRODUCTION
The hassles of vehicular commuting in crowded metropolitans in developing countries are many – having to wait hours together in traffic jams, taking tortuous
New technology will be equipped in new vehicles. Internet will be plug in into vehicles which is to accomodate current trend among people. Internet connection to computers,smartphone or wireless will increase vehicle sales number. Looking forward, cars may soon be “talking” to each other and to the roadway. Car-tocar information sharing can alert vehicles miles behind that cars ahead have come to a halt, warning drivers to prepare to slow down. “Smart” intersections will allow stop signs and traffic lights to communicate with vehicles, as sensors
Despite offering huge benefits, cell phones have become a grave concern and a major cause of road accidents. Drivers using cell phones are not able to give their complete attention on roads exposing not only
Even though the emergency vehicles have implemented visual device, the visual warning mechanism cannot take effect if the receivers are not facing towards the vehicle. Many collision incidents indicate that drivers did not recognize the coming emergency vehicles with flashing lights and they delayed the reflection of clearing roads in urban area [3]. It is not constrained to elderly or hearing impaired drivers. Therefore, the audible warning siren is important to prevent collisions which are caused by drivers not responding to the sign of warning from emergency travel.
Accidents are one of the most dreaded situations in one`s life, on an average atleast one vehicular accident occur everyday around the world. It has also been observed that the most number of people die as they do not get to the hospital in time after such road accidents in highways or remote locations such as rural villages. This causes unintended loss of life.
Given that the Electronic Control System is the brain in automated and connected vehicles, security of the system is a necessity. But an additional concern is securely locating where the car is in relation to the roadway and other vehicles. While GPS is widely used, there is work to utilize a more accurate technology. Some consider RFID to be the answer. Accuracy is critical in connected vehicles and critical V2V technologies like Crash avoidance, which is already being used by manufacturers like Mercedes Benz. These include advanced radar sensors that can detect other vehicles or variations in driver behavior that could be related to drowsiness (Safety). The origins of RFID come from the British during WW2 who developed a system to identify whether approaching planes were the enemy or allies. The frequency is sent to a transponder through which the frequency is identified with the location of the car (RFID Journal). The data being sent must use the latest encryption technologies and remain updated in order
Active tags require the most power because they can initiate communication to other tags or a reader device. They have a greater range of operation and have been applied to asset control and tracking livestock because of the greater range active tags allow (Weis, 2007, p. 10). Therefore, active tags require more maintenance, but they can broaden the scope in how RFID systems can be used. Some active tags can be equipped with an acceleration sensor that can determine when the tag begins accelerating and then transmit a signal to the reader. One example that this can be useful for is in shipping container transportation. Shipping containers can be lost at sea after falling off a ship and traditional RF technology may not be able to detect it in time. However, active tag RFID systems with an acceleration sensor can notify the system when the container begins falling, making it possible to recover (Weis, 2007, p. 10). Figure 3, below, shows the different characteristics of active and passive tags.
After analyzing all the IoT-enabling technologies, e.g. Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). We came to a conclusion that RFID and WSN are the best available technologies for the development of a smart parking system. RFID holds major advantages over others as it is low-cost, consumes low-power, and consist of passive devices called tags. These tags enables the user to transmit data when power is supplied to them via electromagnetic field generated by a reader. They usually have a long life span which makes them a strong contender for the development of a variety of useful applications. But RFID also have its limitations, due to their reduced operating range (i.e. Up to 10 m) we cannot use it for object identification and tracking within quite
RFID innovation developed a while back however wasn 't utilized that regularly because of absence of standardization and its high costs. RFID is a standout amongst all the most recent advances and has most encouraging progressions for the future years and in different commercial enterprises. We assemble a lot of practical information and verifications to support the new suggested techniques. Health care industry i is exceedingly esteemed all through the world; applying the forefront innovation in health awareness industry to enhance understanding human services has been the regular objective sought after by the hospitals everywhere throughout the world. The introduction of RFID as medical application is likewise being excitedly
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Vehicular Communication System plays a major role in the development of Intelligent Transportation System(ITS) which enable the users to make safer, and 'effective ' use of transport networks and aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management.In
7: Experimental setup RFID (NFC MODULE) tag at checkpoint 01 with a hex code, further the code is read again at the checkpoint 02. If the code reads the same tag at the checkpoint 01 in a certain interval of time. The vehicle is termed as “SAFE”. Else in all other cases such as the reader reading a different code or the time interval specified in the algorithm to read the code is exceeded etc. leads to the conclusion that the vehicle is “MISSING” or has encountered a “FAULT”.
In order to cope up with the growing problem of traffic congestion several means and methods have been implemented.For reducing this problem,an efficient method for traffic monitoring can be implemented by providing the availability of the parking spaces in advance. Since there exist no such system we intend to develop one using sensors and RFIDs.In proposed system, we consider car park equipped with sensors(IR) which checks for the availability of parking slots and updates the information periodically.This updated information is provided to the user via an android application. Using this application user gets directed towards the parking slot by using the shortest path algorithm(Dijikstra 's). Also to avoid traffic congestion due to parking charges, car is associated with a unique RFID tag for the wallet parking.
Abstract— Road accidents cause a severe threat to human lives from both an injury as well as a financial perspective. Given that vehicles are designed to provide a smooth means of transportation, manufacturers have long been in the process of designing the vehicles that are based on principles of efficiency, reliability and safety. However, due to reasons such as human-error, circumstantial error, poor vision and negligence, accidents occur. Today, special attention is focused on the technologies that can reduce traffic collisions. Hence, Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology is proposed which are simple to implement. The main objective of this paper is to alert the driver when he closes to the front vehicle by using camera and ultrasonic sensor and to communicate mutually for information exchange by using Xbee.
Abstract-This paper presents review on the accident detection techniques and some future possibilities in this field. Now-a-days lots of accidents happen on highways due to increase in traffic and also due to rash driving of the drivers. And in many situations the family members or the ambulance and police authority is not informed in time. This result in delaying the help reached to the person suffered due to accident.Road accidents constitute the major part of the accident .The purpose of the project is to find the vehicle where it is and locate the vehicle by means of sending a message using a system which is placed inside of vehicle system Most of the times we may not be able to find accident location because we don’t know where accident will happen. Our project Real Time Vehicle Tracking and Accident Detection with GPS is designed to avoid such situations.
Now-a-days, it became very difficult to know that an accident has occurred and to locate the position where it has happened. It’s very difficult for the lives of victims until anyone noticed and informed it to the ambulance or to any hospital and if it occurs in remote areas there will be no hope to survive. To overcome these, GSM and GPS technologies are used. The GPS based vehicle accident identification module contains a vibrating sensor and a GPS modem connected to the microcontroller. When an accident occurs, the vibration sensor gives the signal to the microcontroller, which sends the information to the LCD display through GSM network. The vehicle is tracked for every five minutes using GPS