To monitor a highway or a certain road, there have been multiple methods and techniques developed and applied all over the world . For instance, traditional monitoring Systems depend on radar devices placed at determined parts of the road that aim at the first place to enforce drivers to slow down their vehicle speed and not to exceed a predetermined limit. Whether anyone reading this sees that su
ch technique is effective, you will find another one that finds the opposite. Truth is that such technique isn’t obligatory enough to ensure that a driver would listen and slow his/her vehicle a little bit and give commitment to the speed limit of the road. For further identification, imagine a drunk driver who can cause a big miss that leads to a catastrophic disaster and an accident that leaves behind dead-innocent people. In civilized countries, high ways are divided into 4 lanes-typically- for each of the four classes of the available vehicles, and from a distance to another, a clear traffic sign shows the maximum allowable speeds of each class in each lane. There also might be a number of IP Cams that are fixed at certain parts of the way to be a reference if any urgent incident occurs. The main objective of the monitoring system developed here is not –of course- a replacement of traditional ones, but to add some strong and quality features to them. Our Smart Highway Controlling System or simply ‘SHCS’ aims to build a strong network consisting of nodes that are distributed all over areas of roads in an efficient and organized manner. The whole traffic areas are divided into sectors. In each sector, a central control computer _with a privilege access to the whole nodes of the roads related to that sector_ is responsible for giving the appropriate maximum speeds for each class of vehicles by dealing with a pre-configured GUI. Those are then translated into control messages sent to a certain node(s). Once that sms control message is received, each node transmits the appropriate control context to all vehicles in its range. Each vehicle then is pre-equipped with A device connected to its main control system_ECU_, which is the core of our system. Through a numerous of specified steps, maximum speed value of each class of vehicles is extracted and applied by a smart technique aiming at the first place to increase safety rates on highways. Basically, Such an idea of monitoring and controlling highway speeds won't be achieved 100% in a short amount of time as it mainly depends on enhancing modern classes of vehicles (i.e. > year 2000) Other than that, our future scope is going to include
an important chapter of how to deal with various models of any latter vehicle classes with the aid of specialists in car mechanisms.
