Smart Movable Road Divider and Clearance Ambulance Path Management Through IOT

Abstract

Divider is generically used for dividing the Road for ongoing and incoming traffic. This helps keeping the flow of traffic; generally, there is equal number of lanes for both ongoing and incoming traffic. The problem with Static Road Dividers is that the number of lanes on either side of the road is fixed. Since the resources are limited and population as well as number of cars per family is increasing, there is significant increase in number of cars on roads. The existing Road Dividers consists of equal number of lanes. Usually, in morning and evening peak hours the opposite side of the Road Divider is generally underutilized. To overcome this, Smart Movable Road Divider is implemented where the divider is moved based on the density of the traffic using IR Sensors. If the density of the traffic is high on one side, the divider is moved to the other side. This calls for better utilization of existing resources like number of lanes available. Our aim is to formulate a mechanism of automated road divider that can shift lanes, so that we can have number of lanes in the direction of the rush. Each ambulance will be equipped with GPS and GSM modem which in case of emergency will send its GPS coordinates to the cloud server, which will then mark the shortest distance from its present location to the hospital viathe place from where the emergency call has been raised.