Low-Cost and Energy-Saving Wireless Sensor Network for Real-Time Urban Mobility Monitoring System
Open Access
- 6 September 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Journal of Sensors
- Vol. 2015, 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/685786
Abstract
This paper presents a low-cost and energy-saving urban mobility monitoring system based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The primary components of the proposed sensor unit are a Bluetooth sensor and a Zigbee transceiver. Within the WSN, the Bluetooth sensor captures the MAC addresses of Bluetooth units equipped in mobile devices and car navigation systems. The Zigbee transceiver transmits the collected MAC addresses to a data center without any major communications infrastructures (e.g., fiber optics and 3G/4G network). A total of seven prototype sensor units have been deployed on roadway segments in Newark, New Jersey, for a proof of concept (POC) test. The results of the POC test show that the performance of the proposed sensor unit appears promising, resulting in 2% of data drop rates and an improved Bluetooth capturing rate.Keywords
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