Cloud IoT-Based Mobile Agent Framework for Real-Time Traffic Information Acquisition, Storage, and Retrieval

Abstract

Traffic is an inevitable problem for metro cities around the globe. Intelligent traffic management system helps to improve the traffic flow by detecting congestions or incidents and suggesting appropriate actions on traffic routing. A new and dynamic internet-based decision-making tool for traffic management system was proposed and implemented in authors' previous works. The tool needs weather, road, and vehicle-related integrated information from different data repositories. Several online web portals host real-time weather data streams. However, road and vehicle information are missing in those portals. In addition, their coverage is limited to city-level congregate information but precise road segment-based information is necessary for real-time TMS decision. Internet of things (IoT)-based online sensors can be a solution for this circumstance. As a consequence, in this chapter, an IoT-based framework is proposed and implemented with several remote mobile agents. Agents are securely interconnected to the cloud, and able to collect and exchange data through wireless communication.

Design and Development of An ASP.NET Based ITM Data Center To Support Open Data

“…Thus, it is common that road traffic-related data are stored in a cloudbased server or multiple computers-based data centers. We have already implemented our low-cost flexible and reliable ITMS [1][2][3][4][5] into public cloud-based architecture in [6]. However, to include the public services or provide the Open Data framework needs private storage facilities like a data center with limited budget commodity hardware.…”

“…Each agent is an integrated embedded device with different sensors and controllers namely DHT11, Raindrop's sensor, Arduino microcontroller, and GSM/GPRS/GPS/Bluetooth enabled modules. Our designed devices are securely interconnected with an authenticated data center using GSM/GPRS-based HTTP protocol, and able to collect or exchange encrypted data among themselves through GSM/GPRS/Bluetooth wireless communication [6]. Devices can collect specific data with a degree of autonomy and interact with the data center without human intervention.…”