ECE3003
Microcontrollers and it’s
Applications
Fall Semester 2020 – 21
IR BASED TRAFFIC
DENSITY DETECTION
FACULTY:- Dr. SUMIT KUMAR JINDAL
ABSTRACT:
The project is a traffic signal controller system which reacts to traffic
density. The time taken to modify the signals dynamically varies
based on the traffic level. Well issues with traffic amount to a big
challenge in many cities and often raise fuel usage and emissions.
Traffic signals operating on fixed signal timing delays do not adjust to
the changing traffic density. When the traffic density increase more
than a limit at one particular side, it needs a longer green light
duration to ease traffic flow.
Our system uses the 8051 microcontroller. IR sensors are used for line
of sight object detection using which the system gets an input of the
traffic density. Traffic density is measured as “low, medium and
high”. Based on this density reading the system adjusts and varies the
traffic signal duration for that particular way.