Low Cost Data Acquisition System for Road-Vehicle Interaction Using Arduino Board

Abstract

Abstract Roads are used to travel and transfer of goods from one place to another using vehicles like passenger cars or goods carriers. Roads may get damaged due to overloading, weather conditions or end of life. Vehicles moving on the road can be used to access the road condition along with other parameters like driving behavior, presence of traffic, vehicle accident detection, vehicle suspension health monitoring etc. To monitor this, vehicle and road interaction could be acquired by fitting accelerometers on the vehicle. 3-axis accelerometers can provide acceleration data for the vertical, longitudinal and lateral axis of the vehicle. GPS coordinates could be recorded using a GPS receiver along with vehicle speed. Data from accelerometers could be used to detect road anomalies like speed bumps and potholes, braking and acceleration events and turning of the vehicle. GPS receiver can be used to collect longitude and latitude coordinates to mark the location of the event along with speed of the vehicle. In this paper we are proposing an Arduino microcontroller board based low cost data acquisition system for road and vehicle interaction that could be used for various purposes like road anomaly detection, driver behavior detection, road traffic detection and detection of vehicle collision.