Cloud assisted Internet of things intelligent transportation system and the traffic control system in the smart city

Abstract

Presently, most smart cities face massive traffic issues every day. The smart cities’ significant challenge is the traffic control system, wherein some places are automated and cost-effective. In this manuscript, cloud-assisted Internet of things Intelligent Transportation System (CIoT-ITS) is proposed to overcome traffic management’s challenges. Here, the IoT sensor integrated camera is installed in every traffic signal corner to monitor the vehicle’s flow. Further, the optimised vehicle flow data is sent to the cloud processes. The data from the various signal corners runs an algorithm to detect traffic direction and controls the signal lights. The alert notification is sent to the nearest traffic control room during traffic congestion using IoT sensors. Simulation analysis proved that the proposed CIoT-ITS could monitor and manage the vehicle flow successfully and automatically. The proposed system has been validated based on the optimisation parameter, which outperforms conventional methods.

KEYWORDS:

• Cloud
• Internet of things
• sensors
• traffic management
• vehicle transportation

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Chenchen Liu

Chenchen Liu, male, was born in August 1981. His title is associate professor. He obtained a bachelor's degree in computer science and technology from Chengdu University of technology in 2004 and a master’s degree in software engineering from University of Electronic Science and technology in 2009. He has worked in Xichang College since 2009 and was promoted to associate professor in 2013. Now he is the Principal of mechanical and electronic engineering, School of mechanical and electrical engineering, Xichang College, and team leader of provincial application demonstration course “single chip microcomputer principle and interface technology”. His research interests are embedded system software algorithm application, design and implementation of Internet of things system and information teaching integration. Since taking office, he has published more than 20 academic papers in authoritative journals and conferences at home and abroad as the first author, including 3 in EI, 2 in ISTP and 7 in Chinese core journals. He has been cited more than 200 times and participated in 17 project studies, including 4 projects at provincial level and above.

Li Ke

Li Ke, female, was born in August 1982. Her professional title is lecturer. In 2006, she received a bachelor's degree in Tourism English from Sichuan Normal University. Now she works in Xichang Minzu Preschool Normal College. Her research fields include curriculum information construction and so on. She has published 3 academic papers and participated in 4 research projects at the same time.