Smart ITS sensor for the transportation planning using the IoT and Bigdata approaches to produce ITS cloud services

Abstract

Currently, there exist a lot of challenges in the transportation scope that researcher are trying to resolve and one of them can be focused on transportation planning. The main contribution of this paper was the design and implementation of an ITS smart sensor prototype that incorporates and combine the Internet of Things (IoT) and Bigdata approaches in order to produce ITS cloud services for helping transportation planning for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems. The ITS smart sensor prototype is capable of detecting several Bluetooth signals belonging to several devices (for instance from mobile phones) that people uses into the BRT (for instance, in Bogota city) system. As from that information, the ITS smart sensor prototype can create the O/D (origin/Destiny) Matrix for several BRT routes and this information can be used by the Administrator Authorities (AA) in order to produce a suitable transportation planning for the BRT systems. In addition, that information can be used by AA as from cloud services.