Wireless monitoring and tracking system for vehicles: A study case in an urban scenario

This paper describes the application of a Wireless Traffic Monitoring and Tracking system in the Spanish city of Granada, as an approach for addressing important tasks in the field of Smart Traffic. To this end, several nodes of the so-called MOBYWIT system have been deployed at important urban points. They collect real-time vehicles' movement information based on Bluetooth signals detection. The gathered data have been processed in several ways, showing some of the applications that the system has, such as the composition of Origin/Destination matrices, the computation of accurate displacement times, or the estimation of real traffic in short terms by means of Time Series Forecast. The obtained results validate the system and proves its value as a tool for the urban traffic flow monitoring, analysis and prediction, which could be used as a part of an intelligent transportation system.