An arduino based system provided with GPS/GPRS shield for real time monitoring of traffic flows

In the past, few Public Administrations provided traffic monitoring services in real time due to the high cost of the car traffic monitoring system. The paper aims at proposing a low cost system based on the GPS signals coming from Arduino based systems to collect the traffic measurements needed to compute colored traffic map and the minimum path to the destination depending on the current position. The comparison carried between the performance of the proposed system and the one based on GPS signals coming from the user mobiles points out a higher accuracy of Arduino based tracking system. Also the system may send the user data to the main information center as anonymous messages thus satisfying the privacy requirements needed for a wide activation of such a monitoring methodology.