This paper presents a research work that was carried out to resolve challenges of traffic light system. This work employs the use of a microcontroller, an inductive loop which acts as the vehicle detector and LED’s (light emitting diodes) for simulating the red, yellow and green light in a traffic light. The inductive loop is embedded in pavement along the road which senses the presence of vehicle. When a vehicle passes across the loop, the magnetic field changes and the inductance of the coil is decreased resulting in a frequency change of the oscillator which is detected by the controller. The interrupt is set to make the traffic light allow the movement of vehicles on the lane with many vehicles on it according to information on the counter. This means that when the system discovers the lane with many vehicles by the number on the counter, the interrupt function comes into operation by interrupting the counting process and allowing the system to allow movement in that lane. Then the system resumes back to counting after this process is done. The test results show that the system can be physically and successfully implemented.
Developed Automated Vehicle Traffic Light Controller System for Cities in Nigeria
2018-04-30
doi:10.37121/jase.v1i1.6
Journal of Advances in Science and Engineering; Vol 1 No 1 (2018); 19-25 ; 2736-0652 ; 2636-607X
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC: | 629 |
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