Blue Tooth Traffic Origin and Destination Detection Prototype

David Verma - Information Management Manager -& ICT Manager Auckland Motorways

– Build a commodity bluetooth Traffic Origin and Destination prototype detection

platform for less than $5K NZ Commodity Hardware:

1) EE-Box slim line PC & Windows XP

2) Bluetooth Dongle (USB)

3) Commodity Bluetooth monitoring software purchased off the Internet.

4) IP 65 Cabinet with 240v power supply

The Challenge:- build a non commercial Bluetooth Traffic Origin and Destination Prototype using off the shelf hardware and softwarefor less than $5K NZD

Dave Verma – Information Management Manager & ICT Manager Auckland Motorways

The reasons:

Why Bluetooth?

NZ Legislation now requires hands free kits in cars for people to use mobile phones as of 01 November 2009.

The most effective form of implementing this is via Bluetooth. Either in the form of headsets or in car kits

All Bluetooth devices have a unique identifier which is broadcast and can be captured & logged with a time/date stamp

If this information is captured at different points on the network the time and date stamps as well as the identifiers can be compared – enabling analysis of origin/destination information as well as determinations of vehicle speeds and travel times

Dave Verma – Information Management Manager & ICT Manager Auckland Motorways

The deployment overview

EE-PC

Bluetooth USB Dongle

Bluetooth Enabled Handsfree kit in Car – Legislative Imperative

Dave Verma – Information Management Manager & ICT Manager Auckland Motorways

Installation Approach

Detector Site 3 Detector Site 1

Detector Site 2

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Dave Verma – Information Management Manager & ICT Manager Auckland Motorways

Data Comparison

Data will be manually collected from each site

Data will be compared in Excel and metrics derived

Resulting data will be compared to GPS floating vehicle data collected over the same period

Dave Verma – Information Management Manager & ICT Manager Auckland Motorways