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Given the plethora of individual preferences and requirements of public transport passengers for travel, seating, catering, etc., it becomes very challenging to tailor generic services to individuals’ requirements using the existing service platforms. As tens of thousands of sensors have been already deployed along roadsides and rail tracks and on buses, and trains in many countries, it is expected that the introduction of IP networking will revolutionise the functionality of public transport in general and rail services in particular. In this paper, we propose a new communication paradigm to improve rail services and address the requirement of rail service users: the Rail Internet of Things (RIoT). To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work to define the RIoT and design an architectural platform that includes its components and the data communication channels. Moreover, we develop an assured requirements model using the situation calculus modelling to represent the fundamental requirements for adjustable decentralised feedback control mechanisms necessary for the RIoT-ready software systems. The developed formal model is applied to demonstrate the design of passenger assistance software that interacts with the RIoT ecosystem and provides passengers with real-time information that is tailored to their requirements with runtime adaptability.
An efficient vehicle tracking system is designed and implemented for tracking the movement of any equipped vehicle from any location at any time. The proposed system made good use of a popular technology that combines a Smartphone application with a microcontroller. This will be easy to make and inexpensive compared to others. The designed in-vehicle device works using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global system for mobile communication / General Packet Radio Service (GSM/GPRS) technology that is one of the most common ways for vehicle tracking. The device is embedded inside a vehicle whose position is to be determined and tracked in real-time. A microcontroller is used to control the GPS and GSM/GPRS modules. The vehicle tracking system uses the GPS module to get geographic coordinates at regular time intervals. The GSM/GPRS module is used to transmit and update the vehicle location to a database. A Smartphone application is also developed for continuously monitoring the vehicle location. The Google Maps API is used to display the vehicle on the map in the Smartphone application. Thus, users will be able to continuously monitor a moving vehicle on demand using the Smartphone application and determine the estimated distance and time for the vehicle to arrive at a given destination. In order to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the system, this paper presents experimental results of the vehicle tracking system and some experiences on practical implementations.
Wireless sensors can sense any event, such as accidents, as well as icy roads, and can forward the rescue/warning messages through intermediate vehicles for any necessary help. In this paper, we propose a smart vehicular ad hoc network (SVANET) architecture that uses wireless sensors to detect events and vehicles to transmit the safety and non-safety messages efficiently by using different service channels and one control channel with different priorities. We have developed a data transmission protocol for the vehicles in the highway, in which data can be forwarded with the help of vehicles if they are connected with each other or data can be forwarded with the help of nearby wireless sensors. Our data transmission protocol is designed to increase the driving safety, to prevent accidents and to utilize channels efficiently by adjusting the control and service channel time intervals dynamically. Besides, our protocol can transmit information to vehicles in advance, so that drivers can decide an alternate route in case of traffic congestion. For various data sharing, we design a method that can select a few leader nodes among vehicles running along a highway to broadcast data efficiently. Simulation results show that our protocol can outperform the existing standard in terms of the end to end packet delivery ratio and latency.
In recent years, the range of sensing technologies has expanded rapidly, whereas sensor devices have become cheaper. This has led to a rapid expansion in condition monitoring of systems, structures, vehicles, and machinery using sensors. Key factors are the recent advances in networking technologies such as wireless communication and mobile ad hoc networking coupled with the technology to integrate devices. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used for monitoring the railway infrastructure such as bridges, rail tracks, track beds, and track equipment along with vehicle health monitoring such as chassis, bogies, wheels, and wagons. Condition monitoring reduces human inspection requirements through automated monitoring, reduces maintenance through detecting faults before they escalate, and improves safety and reliability. This is vital for the development, upgrading, and expansion of railway networks. This paper surveys these wireless sensors network technology for monitoring in the railway industry for analyzing systems, structures, vehicles, and machinery. This paper focuses on practical engineering solutions, principally, which sensor devices are used and what they are used for; and the identification of sensor configurations and network topologies. It identifies their respective motivations and distinguishes their advantages and disadvantages in a comparative review
This paper examines all the disparate technologies and techniques capable of smoothing the integration of public transport modes and services at both the urban and interurban scale. The paper focuses on the application of information technology and telematics solutions which have been designed to create as seamless a journey as possible from the point of view of the transport system user. The scope of the paper is therefore deliberately wide-ranging and includes an examination of measures as apparently unconnected as smartcard ticketing, bus priority systems, automatic vehicle locationing, trip planning and on-board information systems as well as new public transport services offering demand responsive travel and integration with taxi services. The paper intends to show how such technological solutions can be used to increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of fixed public transport networks in comparison to the door-to-door flexibility of the private car.
A train is a complex and dynamic environment. Coaches couple and decouple many times during the day, the direction of travel changes often, as do the scheduled duties and the corresponding needed passenger information. To support the on-board systems in such a dynamic environment, there is a need for a strong and robust management infrastructure. The train management system. As the development of train management systems evolves towards an IP-based approach, a strong connectivity management platform supporting the train management system is needed. We designed and implemented such a connectivity management platform, maintaining and controlling the configuration of the IP-network in the train, and this platform is detailed in this paper. Also, a service layer on top of the IP-network, providing facilities for a logical addressing scheme and event-based asynchronous communication, is presented. It will be shown in the paper that, by using such a connectivity management platform and overlaying service infrastructure, a lot of repetitive, low level programming is avoided. Moreover, the design details are presented to provide a robust and self-healing connectivity management system
We present a survey of approaches for providing broadband Internet access to trains. We examine some of the barriers that hinder the use of broadband Internet on trains and then discuss some of the opportunities for broadband deployment to trains. This survey considers some of the basic concepts for providing broadband Internet access and then reviews associated network architectures. The review of network architectures shows that we can subdivide networks for providing broadband Internet access to trains into the train-based network, the access network-for connecting the train to the service provider(s)-and the aggregation network-for collecting user packets generated in the access network for transmission to the Internet. Furthermore, our review shows that the current trend is to provide Internet access to passengers on trains using IEEE 802.11; however, a clear method for connecting trains to the global Internet has yet to emerge. A summary of implementation efforts in Europe and North America serves to highlight some of the schemes that have been used thus far to connect trains to the Internet. We conclude by discussing some of the models developed, from a technical perspective, for testing the viability of deploying Internet access to trains.
The art of state of onboard metro Passenger Information System is introduced. The structure and main functions of onboard metro Passenger Information System are described. The Main Controlling and Remote Connected, Audio Communications, Video Display, Content Management, CCTV Surveillance Subsystem and Communications Interface are designed in this paper. The onboard metro passenger information system can also operate in a variety of public mass transit transportation modes.
This paper presents our research towards smart camera networks capable of carrying out advanced surveillance tasks with little or no human supervision. A unique centerpiece of our work is the combination of computer graphics, artificial life, and computer vision simulation technologies to develop such networks and experiment with them. Specifically, we demonstrate a smart camera network comprising static and active simulated video surveillance cameras that provides extensive coverage of a large virtual public space, a train station populated by autonomously self-animating virtual pedestrians. The realistically simulated network of smart cameras performs persistent visual surveillance of individual pedestrians with minimal intervention. Our innovative camera control strategy naturally addresses camera aggregation and handoff, is robust against camera and communication failures, and requires no camera calibration, detailed world model, or central controller.
This article is focused on data transmission scheduling in V2I communications, where a central station, the roadside beacon, decides how to allocate system resources among the vehicles under coverage. We consider non-safety applications whose commercial appeal is expected to accelerate the deployment of VANETs. In this case the main objective is to deliver as much information as possible during the connection lifetime of the vehicles, which is limited by their speed and the length of the road sections under coverage. In this environment the contention free poll-based access mechanism of the 802.11e standard included in current VANET specifications is especially suitable. The design of a scheduling mechanism is addressed in this article from a control theory point of view with the additional novelty of using an optimal control formulation comprising resource constraints. This design strategy allows QoS differentiation, assuring a fixed amount of bandwidth for each QoS class. The resulting algorithm not only maximizes the amount of data delivered, but also reduces performance differences between users traveling along different roads.
The use of wireless communication technologies to increase road safety is rising within the automobile world. Vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications is a very promising field but the slow vehicle renewal rate combined with the current world economic crisis turns V2V into a distant scenario. A more viable solution relies on Infrastructure to vehicle communications (I2V) and the use of the wireless access for vehicular environment (WAVE) standard, specifically tailored for delivering safety and multimedia messages in a highly dynamic communication environment. This work-in-progress paper addresses an open issue in a previous presented infrastructure based solution: the beacon coordination between adjacent road side units (RSUs) and also a safety message retransmission mechanism performed by such RSUs.
IEEE 802.16 standard was designed to support the bandwidth demanding applications with quality of service (QoS). Bandwidth is reserved for each application to ensure the QoS. For variable bit rate (VBR) applications, however, it is difficult for the subscriber stations (SSs) to predict the amount of incoming data. To ensure the QoS guaranteed services, the SS may reserve bandwidth more than the amount of its transmitting data. As a result, the reserved bandwidth may not be fully utilized all the time. In this paper, we propose a scheme, named Bandwidth Recycling, to recycle the unused bandwidth without changing the existing bandwidth reservation. The idea of our scheme is to allow other SSs to utilize the unused bandwidth when it is available. Thus, not only the same QoS guaranteed services can be provided but also the system throughput can be improved. Mathematical analysis and simulation are used to evaluate the proposed scheme. Simulation and analysis results confirm that our proposed scheme can recycle 35 percent of unused bandwidth on average. By analyzing factors affecting the recycling performance, three scheduling algorithms are proposed to improve the overall throughput. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm can further improve the overall throughput by 40 percent when the network is in the steady state.
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