I hope you all have learned about various real-time applications on IoT in our previous article. If so, then you have also found that IoT has become the heart of modern technology. It is making its footprints in various fields. Likewise, transportation is also one of those important fields.
Transportation is the backbone of our lives. Starting from wake up till we sleep our life will not run without transportation. Firstly, our basic needs come through transports. Similarly, we go to the office, schools, movies, parks, coffee shop, hospitals using transports. So, the need of transport is increasing day by day. Due to this, the need for improvement in the transportation should have taken to make life easier. Hence the connected vehicles or in other words the smart transport has come into the picture.
Finally, coming to the applications of Internet of Things in transport. These are:
Intelligent Traffic
Since the traditional traffic control system is not being able to solve the real-time problem. So, the need of the intelligent traffic system comes. Here also, IoT plays an important role. As a result, this smart system help cities to control traffic more efficiently. However, the backbone of this system is the 5G, 4G wireless connectivity. Therefore road traffic, infrastructure, vehicles, street lights, pedestrians are well managed. The technologies applied in intelligent traffic system are:
Communication
Firstly, in the field of short-range communication, the radio frequencies UHF and VHF are mostly used. Similarly, Global system for communication using mobile phones are GSM or 3G.
Video-vehicle detection system
Secondly, Videos from cameras are fed into processors that identify the changing characteristics of the video image as the vehicle pass. For this reason, Cameras are situated on the poles, critical zones or adjacency roads.
As a result, the information can be read from the monitored sites. Similarly, decrypts and allows the operator to process. Finally, the outputs are the vehicle speed, lane occupancy, wrong-way vehicle alarm, headway, detection etc.
Sensing System
Inductive loops are placed in the roadbed. As a result, the passing vehicles can be detected from the magnetic loops. Likewise, some sophisticated sensors measure the speed, length and class of the vehicles and distance from each.
Moreover, these sensors work on both high speed and low-speed vehicles. Also, vehicle magnetic sensor detection technologies can reveal the name-plate of the vehicle even at a high speed. Therefore the crime detection are also become easy.
GPS Monitoring
So, we can track the traffic speed, density on a particular road using GPS, smartphones and sensors.
Dynamic Traffic Light
RFID sensors are used to maintain the dynamic traffic light sequences. In addition, a proper algorithm, the database can make the work of RFID easier to detect the real-time data from each lane, road.
Smart Cars
The future modern transport is smart, integrated and connected cars. Firstly, the increasing amount of private cars is the reason behind traffic congestion and pollution. So, to reduce this severe environmental hazard smart car started leaving its importance. Here are some features of smart cars:
Communication
How’s it if your car can talk? Cool right? Meanwhile, it will give you goosebumps if you know that the smart cars can communicate with each other. Therefore, it will give notification to avoid accidents. Moreover, it can reduce fuel consumption by creating road-train.
Solar & Electric Roadways
This is to say, some roadways have already been implemented in some of the countries like Sweden and South Korea. To clarify, a network of electronically powered roads for electric vehicles is made using the open-source project TEV( Tracked Electric Vehicle System).
Self-operating
Now, the driving problem is solved. For example, the smart cars are the self-driving cars.
However, you can know more about smart cars in this article.
Automobile Industry
Firstly, coming to some importance of IoT in automobile industry:
Autonomous vehicle
Today, the hot-topic of the automobile makers is to make a vehicle autonomous. Even though developers have been made in this area, a fully autonomous vehicle still needs to be developed.
However, semi-autonomous vehicles are there. Therefore, it can assists drivers with driving, parking, braking, road changing, congestion of roads, infrastructure of roads and many more.
Automotive Maintenance
The sensors from which data can be collected, shared to a platform and then processed by an algorithm. As a result, predictive analysis can be done. Similarly, alerts are sent to the dashboard of the driver regarding probable malfunctions.
Due to this, drivers can take cost-effective and time-saving steps in anticipation. In conclusion, the driver can confirm of its vehicle condition and repair the parts before they break.
Fleet Management
Here are some of the features which an IoT based fleet management system offers to the manager:
- Real-time location monitoring of the fleet
- Volume tracking of cargo
- Fuel and mileage statistics
- Road-train
- Tracking traffic
- Time and driver management
Connected Vehicles
Firstly, the connected vehicles are using an IoT network called CV2X (Cellular Vehicle to Everything) which connects vehicles and smart transport system with each other. In addition, based on the vehicle connection with different objects CV2X is again divided in following categories.
- Vehicle to vehicle(V2V): This connection allows to share data of each other. For example, the data are related to speed, location etc. As a result, it helps to prevent accidents. Due to this, the emergency vehicles get access to easily move.
- Vehicle to Infrastructure(V2I): This infrastructure contains traffic, lights, lane marking etc. Moreover, it facilitates smooth traffic flows and avoid queues at petrol pumps.
- Vehicle to Pedestrian(V2P): A pedestrian can connect to CV2X by using mobile applications. It locate nearby taxis and monitor estimated time to arrival. Likewise, it can also check the pedestrian walking system and change the traffic signal to cross the road.
Commercial transportation
Commercial transports are used to transport goods whether for paying or not. Now coming to the point what makes a commercial transport smart. Firstly, sensors monitor and communicate real-time status of fuels to operators or the drivers. Similarly, service intervals and saving of money can avoid pulling filters based on industrial recommendation. Likewise, it reduces the breakdown, tow bills. In addition, it also monitors the health status of the driver and avoid accidents. Here are some examples of vehicles where smart commercial transportation have been imported.
In conclusion, the future world is going to move more faster holding the hands of IoT in transportation.
