Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research (IC&SR) , IIT Madras

Technology Category/ Market

Category –Automotive

Applications – Transport systems, Automation, Automobiles 

Industry –Automotive/ Transportation Systems

Market -The global intelligent transportation system market is projected to grow from $22.91 billion in 2021 to $42.80 billion in 2028, at a CAGR of 9.34%

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Problem Statement

  • Manual toll collection has limitations such as  human error, missed record of vehicle details, slow process, customer irritations, misbehaviour by the driver or the toll attendant, theft, other disturbances
  • Tag based system on the other hand needs participation and associated issues
  • These can be resolved with a toll system that can accurately classify the vehicles with an automated system that does not need participation by keeping a tag in the vehicle

Technology

A method and system for robust classification of vehicles under heterogeneous traffic condition, comprises of:

  • Hardware-executable components for execution
  • Inductive classification loop sensors
  • A smart inductive loop
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Microprocessor
  • Display Module
  1. Smart inductive loop is positioned between the classification loop array and the payment summit, it employs time series techniques and machine learning algorithms to process the collected data
  2. The inductive classification system is designed to classify heterogeneous traffic flow, with one loop per lane of a modified shape with inner and outer loops having specific dimensions.
  3. The said  microprocessor enables signal de-noising using DWT technique; signal segmentation with moving standard deviation technique; feature extraction with DWT and vehicle classification using SVM classifier
  4. Display Module displays information related to accounts associated with the operation and classification of vehicles

Key Features/ Value Proposition

Technical Perspective:

  • A robust mechanism in classifying vehicles under heterogeneous traffic conditions, which the regular loop designs and algorithmic methods cannot classify
  • Signal De-noising using DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) technique helps to remove noise from the collected signal data
  • Vehicle Classification using SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier that classifies vehicles based on the extracted features.

User Perspective:

  • Enhanced, efficient and improved inductive loop for vehicle classification
  • Accurate in obtaining the vehicle signatures from the de-noised data

Questions about this Technology?

Contact for Licensing

sm-marketing@imail.iitm.ac.in
ipoffice2@iitm.ac.in

Research Lab

Prof. LELITHA DEVI V

Department of Civil Engineering

Intellectual Property

  • IITM IDF Ref. 1802
  • IN201941013771

Technology Readiness Level

TRL- 5

Technology validated in relevant environment

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