A Novel Approach for Smart Ambulance using Intelligent Traffic Control System

One of the major issues for highly crowded metropolitan cities is road traffic congestion. Road traffic congestion causes traffic jams, which affects major services like ambulance service. As a solution, this paper has come up with "Intelligent automatic traffic signal control for ambulance". To implement the intelligent traffic signal control system, it makes use of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology. The proposed system uses an android app that connects with an ambulance as well as the traffic signal station using cloud. The idea behind the proposed system is, whenever an ambulance halts on its way to the hospital due to traffic congestion, the RFID reader installed at the traffic signal reads the RFID tagged ambulance and sends its data to the microcontroller. At the microcontroller, the app command is verified and the particular signal is changed to green until the ambulance passes by. It then regains its normal flow. It acts as a lifesaver project as it saves the time in emergency period to control the traffic lights.