An Internet of Things based Intelligent Transportation System

With the emergence of the Internet, a large quantity of data is generated by the communication network, largely triggered by the human activity. Adding to this, emerging technology like Internet-of-Things (IoT) wherein a large number of devices are getting connected to the Internet, thereby accelerating the rate of data generation. There are also future predictions that the number of devices connected to the internet is going to exceed the number of people connected to the internet. So there occurs the necessity to harness this large amount of data (mostly sensor data), convert them into useful information, make intelligent predictions and use this knowledge to build robust systems. In this paper we demonstrate the idea to build an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) using the Internet of Things (IoT) platform. The system has three components; the sensor system, monitoring system and the display system. The sensor system has Global Positioning System (GPS), Near Field Communication (NFC), Temperature and Humidity sensors, which are always connected with the internet via a GSM network to track the location, commuter and ambience inside the bus. The monitoring system is used to extract the raw data from the sensors database, convert it in to a meaningful context, triggers some events with in the bus and provide information to the bus driver. The display system is used to show the context data (bus and travel related information) to all the commuters in the bus stop. We describe our prototype and show how this can be used as a fundamental component to build the ITS.