A distributed measurement system for smart monitoring of vehicle activities

Focus of this paper is to present an ITS used to certificate the correctness of vehicle activities. Due to the growing importance of transport system for the sustainability of the human society development, nowadays various intelligent transport systems (ITS) have been developed. In this work flexible ITS designed to handle various aspects of the hazardous material transport is presented. This system is able to monitor some vehicle's activities starting from the measurement of parameters such as accelerations, positions, etc. A fuzzy inference system (FIS) was implemented to test the possibility of using the proposed system as a certifier of the correctness of these activities. In particular, the loading and unloading activity of a vehicle fleet used for the rubbish collection was monitored. The proposed system was developed and tested in the framework of a research project funded by Apulia Region (Italy).