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DENSITY BASED TRAFFIC CONTROL

SYSTEM USING ARDUINO UNO
SWETHA.B.R 1, YUVASRI.D2, KARTHIGA.M 3, PADMA.S 4
Department of Electronics And Instrumentation Engineering
1,2,3
UG Students , Assistant Professor 4, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai 066

ABSTRACT: I. INTRODUCTION:
Transportation has always a crucial part
Due to rapid rise in automobiles and because of of human civilization. As there is a huge
large time delays between traffic lights, controlling increase in number of vehicles ,
the traffic becomes a major task. This becomes a
managing the traffic becomes a smart
severe problem in many cities across the world. So in
order to rectify this problem, we go for DENSITY task. This paper provides results in
BASED TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM. avoiding excess delays, promote safety
and reduce environmental pollution.
Normally ,a conventional traffic light works on a
fixed time concept allotted to each side of the
junction which cannot be varied and junction timings II. BLOCK DIAGRAM:
allotted are fixed. In some cases , higher traffic
density occurs at one side of the junction which
demands longer green time as compared to standard
IR MODULE
allocated time. This system is done using a LED
ARDUINO UNO
ARDUINO UNO interfaced with sensors at the DISPLAY
junctions. It changes the junction timing
automatically to accommodate movement of vehicles POWER
smoothly avoiding waiting time at junction. The IR SUPPLY
sensors are used to detect the density at the traffic
signal. Figure 2
KEYWORDS: ARDUINO UNO, IR sensors
,LED’S HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION:
A. ARDUINO UNO:

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The Arduino UNO is a microcontroller board
based on the ATmega328. It is made of 14
digital input output pins in which 6 can be used
as PWM outputs. And also it has 6 analog inputs
,a 16 Mhz ceramic resonator, a USB
]connection, a power pack ,and a reset button. It
has everything needed to support the
microcontroller. It is so simple that it is to be
connected to computer with a USB cable or
power it with a AC- to DC adaptor or battery to
get started.
B. IR SENSOR:
Figure 4
III. SOFTWARE AND
A . ARDUINO SOFTWARE
Figure 5
In order to program the Arduino board, we need
to use IDE provided by Arduino. The Arduino
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IR sensor is an electronic device which senses
the objects present around the surroundings. The
principle is it transmits an infrared signal , this
signal strikes the body of an object and the
signal is bounced which is received at the
infrared receiver.
The system is less cost and efficiency is more
because the IR sensors are used for counting the
number of vehicles at each way of the junction.
The Arduino UNO used is a simple prototype
model which works more efficiently. As the IR
sensors emits the IR radiations ,when an object
crosses this sensor it will start to count the
number of vehicles in each way and proportional
output is given by the Arduino UNO board. In
this Paper, it shows the density measurement is
done with the help of IR sensors.
ENVIRONMENT:
IDE is based on Processing programming
language and supports C and C++.
IV. CONCLUSION:
This paper may help in the future to be free from
traffic problems. As the components used in the
system is less cost and efficiency is more
because the IR sensors are used for counting the
number of vehicles at each way of the junction.
The Arduino UNO used is a simple prototype
model which works more efficiently.
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the number of vehicles in each way and

proportional output is given by the Arduino
As the IR sensors emits the IR radiations ,when UNO board.
an object crosses this sensor it will start to count
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