Smart traffic sign boards (STSB) for smart cities

Ubiquitous nature of smart cities requires multiple technologies to be implemented in this area. To develop the smart cities in practice, there is huge need of “Smart Traffic Management”. Smart Traffic Management is a system to monitor and control the traffic signals using sensors to regulate the flow of traffic and to avoid the congestion for smooth flow of traffic. Prioritizing the traffic like ambulance, police etc. is also one application comes under smart traffic management. Traffic sign board plays important role to make the traffic in shape and to control and manage the traffic on roads. Many at times the driver misses the sign boards while driving due to various reasons like insufficient light, fog, rain, traffic etc. In this paper, a framework of the Smart Traffic Sign Boards (STSB) is proposed, which can communicate with the system deployed in all the vehicles to make the drivers of those vehicles aware of speed breakers, speed limits, schools, or ‘U’ turn ahead, etc. beforehand, to avoid the mishap due to sudden appearing of such unusual features of the road during the road journey.