Sensor Networks for Automobile Tracking and Routing;Final rept. Jan 03-Mar 04

摘要

Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology that has a wide range of potential applications including environment monitoring, smart spaces, medical systems and robotic exploration. In this report the researcher tried to present the intermediate result on the design of traffic control systems related to automobile tracking based on the wireless sensor networks. This report presents the preliminary implementations of three sub-systems: (1) safe vehicular passing$ (2) traffic violation detection$ and (3) automobile tracking. Safe vehicular passing was developed to serve rural roads where many accidents happen during passing maneuvers. This application allows the users to acquire knowledge of the surroundings to enhance vehicular passing safety. Traffic violation detection was developed to capture traffic violations with minimal costs. In this application light sensors were used to either count traffic or to detect a violation. Many assumptions were made when developing the automobile tracking systems, but these assumptions can be implemented with the sophisticated equipment available. This research offers three theoretical examples of how the device might be used, and even though the researcher realizes that these examples do not have 'real world' applications because of legal, traffic operations and other issues, they do illustrate use of the device.