Intelligent Traffic Signal Control System Using Embedded System

Abstract

A development of an intelligent traffic signal control (ITSC) system needed because present traffic light controllers are based on old microcontroller such as AT89C51 which has very less internal memory and no in-built ADC. These systems have limitation because they will use the predefined program that does not have the flexibility of modification on real time application. The present traffic system have fixed time interval for green and red signal which does not provide the flexibility to the system. The ITSC system consist of high-performance, low power AVR_32 microcontroller with 32kbytes of in-system programmable flash memory and in-built 8-channel, 10-bit ADC which is required to process the IR input from sensor network. The ITSC system will able to deal two basic problem of traditional traffic light system: i) Detection of traffic volume by using genetic algorithm.  ii) Emergence vehicle detection such as ambulance, police etc by using wireless sensor network (IR) embedded at the signal intersection.

Keywords: Traffic Volume Estimation, Genetic Algorithm, wireless sensor network, Vehicle detection, Intelligent Traffic Signal Controller, embedded system.