A study of Wireless Sensor Network Architectures and Projects for Traffic Light Monitoring

Mohamed Amine Kafi (1) , Yacine Challal (2) , Djamel Djenouri (1) , Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah (2) , Lyes Khelladi (1) , Nadjib Badache (1, 3)

1 CERIST - Centre de recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique
2 Heudiasyc - Heuristique et Diagnostic des Systèmes Complexes [Compiègne]
3 LSI - Laboratoire des Systèmes Informatiques

Vehicular traffic is increasing around the world, especially in urban areas. This increase results in a huge traffic congestion, which has dramatic consequences on economy, human health, and environment. Traditional methods used for traffic management, surveillance and control become inefficient in terms of performance, cost, maintenance, and support, with the increased traffic. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is an emergent technology with an effective potential to overcome these difficulties, and will have a great added value to intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In this survey, we review traffic light projects and solutions. We discuss their architectural and engineering challenges, and shed some light on the future trends as well.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Mohamed Amine Kafi, Yacine Challal, Djamel Djenouri, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Lyes Khelladi, et al.. A study of Wireless Sensor Network Architectures and Projects for Traffic Light Monitoring. The 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, 2012, Canada. pp.543-552, ⟨10.1016/j.procs.2012.06.069⟩. ⟨hal-00726010⟩