Development and Implementation of Embedded Wireless Traffic Congestion System using Wireless Image Mesh Sensor Network Technology

Abstract

Traffic congestion is a problem faced daily in modern life. Efforts to solve traffic congestions would also provide solutions to inter-related problems in social, economic, human resources, environment even involving life and death. One main factor for congestions is the increase of new vehicles used. The problem would escalate year by year. Hence the desperate need for a system that would be able to monitor the situations. One way of solving this problem is to develop a system that would be able to monitor the highway whereby information about impending congestion, i.e., images of traffic situations and their analyses which could be sent to the traffic police. This would be followed by encoding and transmitting the image via WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) to the traffic police control room. The main goal of this work would be to design a model to assist traffic police in their work.

Keywords:

• Car detection
• Congestion detection
• Mesh networks
• Worldwide interoperability for microwave access
• Wireless image mesh sensor network

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Notes on contributors

Ahmed Nidhal Khdiar

Ahmed Nidhal Khdiar (B.Sc. (Hons) Nahrain, M.Sc. (Nahrain)) was born in Baghdad, Iraq on the 15th off August 1982. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) in Electronic Engineering from Nahrain University (Baghdad, Iraq) in 2003. In 2006, he received his M.Sc. in Electronic Circuits and Systems Design (majoring in Image Process) from Nahrain University. Currently, he is Ph.D. Student in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). E-mail: [email protected]

Umi Kalthum bt Ngah

Jmi Kalthum bt Ngah (B.Sc. (Hons) Sheffield, M.Sc. (USM), Ph.D (USM)) was born in Penang, Malaysia on the 11th of February 1959. She received her B.Sc. (Hons.) in Comp. Sc. from the University of Sheffield in 1981. In 1995, she received her M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering (majoring in Image Processing and Knowledge Based Systems) from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and then pursued further degree at the same university where she received her Ph.D. in the same area in the year 2007. She has been with USM since the year 1981, starting her career as a tutor. At the present moment, she is attached to the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, USM Engineering Campus. Her current research interests include image processing particularly medical imaging, knowledge based and artificial intelligence systems and biomedical engineering focusing on intelligent diagnostic systems. Her work has been published in numerous international and national journals, chapters in books, international and national proceedings. E-mail: [email protected]

Widad Ismail

Widad Ismail BEng (Hons) in Electronics and Communications Engineering, University Of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, July 1999. PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University Of Birmingham, United Kingdom,January 2004. At the present moment, she is attached to the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, USM Engineering Campus. Her current research interests include Antennas, RF and Microwave Engineering, Communications. Her work has been published in numerous international and national journals, chapters in books, international and national proceedings. E-mail: [email protected]