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Suggestions for Traffic Light Control Project Task: Risk Title of Group Project: Road Guardian Group Index No: IJ115 Name of Candidate: Xavier Quek Jia Jing CG: 1151A Date submitted: 07th October 2011 Name of Approving Supervising Tutor: Mr. Ong Seck Chye

Source: Y. Shang, H. Shi and M. Tubaishat (2007) Suggestion for Adaptive Traffic Light Control With Wireless Sensor Networks (Retrieved 7th July , 2011) http://ece.iisc.ernet.in/ditastec/media/traffic_signal_literature/Tubaishat-etal07-adaptive_trafic_control.pdf

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The source was published in 2007, as the copyright date show the year. The source is current for research needs as they feature sensor systems in the traffic light system and it is explained extensively. There are no republications, however, this source is considered appropriate as it is the one of the more current and appropriate sources to be used for value-adding the project. This source was cited 7 times by various research papers and university projects. All citations are recent from the year 2009-2011. The source is from The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) a prestigious and non-profit organization that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence. Yi has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 1997. He also has a M.S. in Computer Engineering, Institute of Computing Technology, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 1991, and a B.S. in Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 1988.Yi has extensive research experience on nonlinear and combinatorial optimization, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, wireless sensor networks, distributed and mobile computing,. He has published over 140 refereed journal and conference papers, and has been awarded 6 US patents. Many of his works are well received. For example, he pioneered the multidimensional scaling based approach for ad hoc network localization and one of his papers has been cited over 600 times. He has served on program and/or organizing committees of over 40 international conferences. His research projects have been funded by federal and industrial grants and contracts from US Army, Microsoft,

Raytheon, and University of Missouri Research Board. These give him the credentials to write this journal and his sources can be trusted. Usefulness TP#1: Usage of traffic simulators can realistically enhance the work experience, as it allows us to make changes to traffic policies (i.e. the best speed limit to be set by the speed limiters), and determine the optimum distance for the sensors to detect vehicles by observing vehicle deceleration in the simulator which may be dangerous to test in a real environment, as it is crucial to determine the distance for which the speed limiters to be activated for safe deceleration of vehicle. TP#2: Gives the idea of what a transmitter-receiver unit should be consisted of. Therefore, tiny but powerful enough software must be needed in order to retrofit this device into vehicles and traffic lights alike without taking up too much space. The OS or operating system should be provided by ATS Traffic Pte Ltd, a Singapore based traffic engineering specialist contractor. However, note that the unit must be waterproof to prevent any form of system failure if downpour occurs. Collaboration with them would result in a better end product because they are the manufacturers for traffic lights in Singapore, which gives them the expertise and experience in traffic hardware. TP#3: Magnetometer sensors can be used to be retrofitted into the camera to detect not only the receiver fitted in the vehicle, but it detects the body of the vehicle itself in case the receiver does not work. Figure 1 explains where the magnetometer can be placed. It will be installed inside of the camera unit, as the camera utilizes wireless networks to

detect an approaching vehicles receiver, rather than detecting pedestrians as vehicles are easily identified by their size and ferrous make.

Figure 1: Location where magnetometer will be placed on the traffic light to detect large ferrous objects. (Generated Idea)

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Annex A (Yi Shang) (i)Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 1997.

M.S. in Computer Engineering, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 1991.

B.S. in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 1988.

(ii)Experience

9/08-present: Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

9/04-8/08: Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

9/97-8/04: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (On leave 1/01 1/03).

1/01-01/03: Senior Research Staff, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC), Palo Alto, CA.

9/91-7/97: Research Assistant, Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, IL.

9/89-7/91: National Research Center for Intelligent Computing System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

(iii)Publications 1. Ph.D. Dissertation: Global Search Methods for Solving Nonlinear Optimization Problems, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1997. 2. M.S. Thesis: Novel Genetic Operators for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1991. 5. B. Yin, H. Shi, and Y. Shang, A Two-Level Topology Control Strategy for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2009. 6. Yi Shang, H. Shi, Y. Zhang, C. Guettier, Distributed systems of sensors and actuators. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 9(3), 2009. 7. M. Tubaishat, P. Zhuang, Q. Qi, and Y. Shang, Wireless Sensor Networks in Intelligent Transportation Systems. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 9(3), pp. 287-302, March 2009.

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