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

Abstract

Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) helps to solve real-time traffic problems and guides efficient and effective routes to reach a destination. It aggregates information from various sensors located in different places of roads and in vehicles to collect different kinds of data about vehicles, weather, roads, and traffic, etc. These data are filtered and processed to generate results from which ITM generates appropriate communication-related decisions. The full ITM must be able to cooperate by allowing communication with and among vehicles and/or IoT devices. It creates pressure on the network, requiring high data transmission bandwidth, and demands short response time and latency for our time-sensitive traffic applications. Besides these, massive amounts of data also demand faster processing and secure storage. In this context, a data center is deemed an ideal companion for ITM which will be used for storage, processing, and transmission of data and results back to different clients. In this article, we are going to present a data center that is specially built for ITM. Our designed data center uses WebSocket-based bi-directional communication, load balance, fault tolerable module, data replicability, and provides road-vehicle-traffic-related web services and distributes Open Data with API supports.