Abstract:
Traffic accidents are now one of the main causes of death and economic loss in most of the developed
countries. Noncompliance with traffic laws is severely impeding the safety of the road traffic system. In this
paper a system for monitoring and reporting incidences of red light violations at the traffic intersection has
been proposed. A prototype of the system was build and verified experimentally. The system comprises an
infrared (IR) transmitter and receiver unit for detection of red light violation whereas for identifying the
vehicle, microcontroller triggered wireless mobile network has been used. The microcontroller was
programmed to automatically send message containing the car license no, date and time of breaking the rule
to the numbers of traffic control units stored previously to the cell phone directory. Upon detection of the
offender, the corresponding action can be performed by the traffic monitoring system. The proposed system
is simple, cheap, reliable, and exempted from the effects of bad weather conditions, improper lightings etc.
and thus more suitable for detection of a violation and identification of the vehicle involved.
