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Bengaluru students inventdevice to ease ambulancesthrough heavy trafficStudents have created a light sensor of sorts that will detect the light pulse sequenceof the ambulance. With this, traffic police can manually operate signals and letambulances pass.

Published: 27th June 2019 06:42 AM  |   Last Updated: 27th June 2019 12:44 PM

By Express News Service

BENGALURU:  To tackle one of the recurring problems in the city - heavy traffic

disrupting emergency health services - a group of students have come together to

find a solution. They are now patenting their ‘Traffic Control System’, which will be

an innovative solution for traffic police who struggle to make way for ambulances

stuck behind rows of vehicles at signals.

Students of Saptagiri College of Engineering, under the guidance of their professors

Dr Dinesh K Anvekar and Dr Sasmita Mohapatra, created a light sensor of sorts that

will detect the light pulse sequence of the ambulance. With this, traffic police can

manually operate signals and let ambulances pass.

Students from Sapthagiri College of Engineering presending a censor-based traffic signal, in Bengaluru on Wednesday |

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The team of students includes fourth-semester Electronics and Communication

Engineering students Nitin B S, B K Harshit, Prathika V M and Dhanush Bharadwaj

H P. 

“The electronics and communication functions of the system are implemented by

two micro-controller boards in the traffic light unit and one micro-controller within

the torch,” said the students. The traffic lights control system consists of a light code

sequence detector mounted above the red traffic light, and a light pulse sequence

emitting torch. The light pulse sequence is detected by a light sensor interfaced to a

micro-controller.  The torch has a micro-controller that produces a pre-determined

sequence of light pulses,” the group said.

Since the light sensor is placed against a ‘conspicuous black-yellow pattern’ board,

it will aid the ambulance driver in heavy traffic. “The light code sequence detector

recognises light sequences and signals the traffic light control circuit to switch

immediately to green and allow the ambulance to pass,” they added. The invention

has been filed for patent issue by the Indian Patents Office, they added.

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