Focal design issues affecting the deployment of wireless sensor networks for intelligent transport systems

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Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are a target technology for intelligent transport systems (ITS) because they offer benefits of low-cost, simple installation and ease of deployment. In order for WSN to achieve trademark performance in traffic monitoring, and compete effectively with present day traffic surveillance systems, certain design requirements must be met. In this study, the authors identify vital design issues that must be considered to facilitate deployment of WSN for traffic monitoring. The authors classify these design issues into four different categories namely, sensing modality, power conservation, network reliability and security. The authors conduct their investigation via extensive study of the recent literature and comprehensive survey of existing WSN-based ITS technologies. The authors conclude each discussion by presenting open research issues. The authors then discuss two promising application areas for traffic monitoring WSN namely, active traffic management and integrated traffic management.

Inspec keywords: wireless sensor networks; road traffic; security of data; automated highways

Other keywords: focal design issue; intelligent transport system; traffic surveillance system; security category; active traffic management; power conservation category; WSN-based ITS technology; integrated traffic management; traffic monitoring; network reliability category; wireless sensor network deployment; design requirement; sensing modality category

Subjects: Wireless sensor networks; Data security; Traffic engineering computing; Sensing devices and transducers

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