Remotely controllable wireless road stud network
Date
2013-10
Authors
Le Roux, J. H.
Barnard, A.
Booysen, Marthinus J.
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Publisher
IEEE -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Abstract
Developing countries face many infrastructure
related challenges, one of them being road safety. This paper
proposes a novel system introducing a network of wirelessly
connected road studs that are remotely controllable from an
online platform. In this proof-of-concept demonstrator, a smallscale
set-up was designed and constructed to assist in the
analysis of the requirements for such a system, which will form
part of a greater ITS system. The system consists of three
functional parts, namely the online SMART platform which is
used to transmit commands to the road studs in the field via
a GSM connection; the coordinator unit, which receives the
commands through a GSM modem from the platform and then
transmits the relevant data to the road studs through an IEEE
802.15.4 based wireless network; the road stud units, which
receives commands from the coordinator and reconfigures its
settings in terms of colour, brightness and flashing frequency
accordingly. In this paper we review the design process and
highlight some key results from the constructed model.
Description
Intelligent Transportation Systems - (ITSC), 2013 16th International IEEE Conference on 6-9 October 2013, The Hague, Netherlands.
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Keywords
Informal public transport, Road safety, Road studs
Citation
Le Roux, J. H., Barnard, A. & Booysen, M. J. 2013. Remotely Controllable Wireless Road Stud Network. Intelligent Transportation Systems - (ITSC), 2013 16th International IEEE Conference on 6-9 October 2013, The Hague, Netherlands.