ARM BASED AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROLLING SYSTEM USING WEB CAMERA

INTRODUCTION In modern world everyone wants their job to be done as soon as possible, no one is ready to wait for no one. As population increases the need also increased. As of transportation plays main role in daily life, it is very hard to find people who not use vehicle. So most of the roads are flooded with car, lorry, bus, bike... etc, which results in heavy traffic. This project is to overcome the drawbacks of manual traffic signaling system.

DESCRIPTION In this project we use camera to detect the density of the traffic which results in the operating time of traffic signal, camera will be placed on the stepper motor. Stepper motor is used to rotate the camera 360 degree rotation. Controller will send signal to capture the image of the particular road in circular order it will send the request then camera has to capture that particular road image & process that image through dot net to get the number of vehicles in that captured image, based on the number of vehicle system will send signal timings for that particular road. According to number of vehicles the time duration of the respective road signal will change For ex if there is any 10 vehicles means signal time can be send as 10 seconds. After receiving the time value controller will check among 4 road timings & finds which road has got more vehicle & traffic signal will be switched on to green to that particular road for the received timings. Here the whole thing will be controlled by a microcontroller (LPC 2103). So there wont be any human interface in this project, the change of signal and the time duration will be controlled by microcontroller using Timers and Interrupt concept. To display the time duration of a particular road we use ALCD where the people can monitor the time of change. To control stepper motor through microcontroller we use stepper motor Driver Circuit (ULN2803) For traffic signals we use RED & GREEN color

LED. And we use DOTNET (.NET) as a front end software to monitor the complete operation using PC. ARM7TDMI-S architecture based LPC2103 microcontroller from NxP is used to implement this project. This is a 32-bit microcontroller acts as the heart of the project, which controls the whole system. It contains 8k RAM, 32k Flash, 2 Timers, 4 external interrupts, 2 UARTs, 46 GPIOs, I2C communication, RTC, ISP programming, JTAG debugging support etc.

BLOCK DIAGRAM

7 SEGMENT DISPLAY CAMERA

COMPUTER

MICROCONTROLLER ARM7(LPC2103)

TRAFFIC SIGNALS (RED & GREEN)

DC MOTOR

DC DRIVER (L293D)

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COMPONENTS USED
1. Microcontroller

ARM7(LPC 2103)

2. PC 3. DC Motor Driver(L293D) 4. DC Motor 5. 7 Segment Display. 6. LED (Red & Green). SOFTWARES USED 1. Embedded C 2. Keil

3. H Flasher
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