An On-Road Wireless Sensor Network Approach for Urban Traffic State Monitoring

Wireless sensor networks are expected to be deployed on urban roadways to monitor the traffic continuously. One of the requirements of traffic monitoring is displaying the traffic states of the front roadways, which can guide the drivers to choose the right way and avoid potential traffic congestions. In this scenario, the information of traffic state changes should be refreshed as early as possible. The authors propose an adaptive segmentation of the traffic flow based on discrete Fourier transform, which responses timely to traffic state changes without inducing large error. On the other hand, considering the limited power of wireless sensor networks, the authors propose a novel algorithm for in-network aggregation of the traffic flow time-series, which reduces the communication cost between the sensor nodes and base station significantly. The proposed algorithm scales well with the size of the sensor networks. The authors’ methods are computationally efficient and suitable to be implemented on sensor nodes. The primary experiments on PeMS data demonstrate the effectiveness and energy efficiency of their approach.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2008.4732675
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• Authors:
  • Meng, Shuai
  • Kunqing, Xie
  • Xiujun, Ma
  • Guojie, Song
• Conference:
  • 11th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2008)
  • Location: Beijing , China
  • Date: 2008-10-12 to 2008-10-15
• Publication Date: 2008-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 1195-1200
• Monograph Title: 11th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2008)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Time series analysis; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow; Traffic surveillance; Urban areas; Vehicle to infrastructure communications; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01576812
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781424421114
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 2015 6:18PM