Impact of Image Processing in Saving the Human Life by Automating Traffic Signals

International Journal of Sensor and Related Networks (IJSRN) ISSN 2320-5571, Volume.1,Issue.2 , April 2013

Impact of Image Processing in Saving the Human Life By Automating Traffic Signals

Manoj Prabhakar, Manoj Kumar, Dhilip Narayan

manojkrishs@gmail.com manojkumars.msec@gmail.com dhilipnarayan@gmail.com

Abstract- Time is of the essence when it comes to saving

something as valuable as the human life. In the modern congested cities of today, the difference between life and death could very well be the few minutes of delay in getting appropriate medical attention. Each second an ambulance spends waiting in the piled up traffic increases exponentially the threat to the patient's life. This paper explains about a novel Image Capturing System (ICS) based traffic routing approach to address the serious issue of saving human life which otherwise would be lost during the transferal to a hospital by means of an ambulance. The ICS will be used to trigger the connected traffic signal on recognizing an ambulance coming towards it by means of changing the signal automatically to green in favor of the ambulance. This in-turn will significantly reduce the time spent by them near the intersections thereby saving precious human lives which otherwise would have been lost. Key words: Image Processing, Trigger, Ambulance, Human Life I. INTRODUCTION An image is nothing but the subset of signal. Generally a signal is used to convey the information form one end to other end. These sort of signals can be used in many ways. Electrical signals are used in television, radio, etc, which is transmitted by electrical quantities. Here the digital processing is the process of extracting information from the signals. Every signals will have certain information which is to be transmitted to the other end. The digital signal processing is mainly related representing and processing of the numbers (sequence) and symbols. The signals have many characteristics such as its shapes, time...