Calculating the speed of vehicles using Wireless Sensor Networks

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2016

Publication Date

11-3-2016

Abstract

© 2016 Polish Information Processing Society. Speed measurement is an important issue for some types of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), especially for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs). However, calculating this value is error-prone and costly. This report intends to demonstrate the calculation of speed of an object without the use of any additional devices or sensor boards, only using Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) for localization of the vehicles and time calculation using synchronization. We implemented these methods in actual IRIS motes, and tested them. The results show that, while not perfectly accurate, our method proved to be reliable and close to the real speed. In addition, the results do not have any linear correlation in divergence of real speed and calculated speed, which means the system avoids systematic errors.

ISBN

9788360810903

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

First Page

1043

Last Page

1047

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Ad hoc networks, Information systems, Speed, Systematic errors, Vehicular ad hoc networks, Wireless ad hoc networks, Error prones, Linear correlation, Received signal strength indication, Speed measurement, Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETs), Wireless sensor networks

Scopus ID

85007240937

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Bronze: This publication is openly available on the publisher’s website but without an open license

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