Smart Traffic Light Using Raspberry Pi and Digital Image Processing

Congestion is one of the problems in traffic, especially at intersections with traffic lights. In this study, a traffic light management system was developed by utilizing image processing that can adjust the duration in the queue depending on road conditions. The system is developed using Raspberry Pi 4 as the controller. The system will capture the image of the traffic conditions via cameras and then perform the image processing using OpenCV and Tensorflow to calculate the number of vehicles. The number of vehicles will be sent to the webserver database to be processed as the input for traffic system settings. The testing shows that the system can set the timing of the traffic lights. When there are 3 vehicles in the queue with traffic light is red then the system set the timing for the green light to 10 seconds. Additional of 1 vehicle in the queue will increase the duration of the green light by 4 seconds.