SEnTINEL - INtELligent Transport SystEm for Urban Mobility Management in Smart Cities

Abstract

Applications for intelligent transportation systems are springing up to bring many benefits to users during their journey through the use of vehicle traffic monitoring. However, testing and experimenting with real-world environments still poses a challenge for these applications since a realistic scenario of mobility is required. Typically, simulation tools use mobility trails to construct the network topology based on the mathematical formulation of a city mobility model, which attempts to emulate the real mobility of a given city. Another strategy is to use the real route of vehicles traveling to generate the model of mobility of a certain city; however, many studies available in the literature do not use the entire flow of vehicles that circulate in the city, acquiring data only of a small group of vehicles. Thus, in this work we intend to develop an infrastructure that would allow the extraction of the information of mobility from the vehicles of the countryside cities, in real time. This enables not only real-time vehicle monitoring but also the generation of traceability of real-time mobility. The results showed low battery consumption, as well as a low amount of mobile data usage.