InTraSafEd 5G project - Increasing Traffic Safety with Edge and 5G
Despite advances in vehicle technology and road modernization,
traffic accidents are a huge global issue, causing deaths and injuries,
especially among pedestrians and cyclists. This often happens due
to pedestrians and cyclists in drivers’ blind spots or distractions
delaying drivers’ reactions. For these reasons, timely notification
of drivers about critical situations is important to increase traffic
safety. Recently, new edge computing and communication technologies
have been proposed to reduce latency in critical IoT systems.
However, state-of-the-art solutions either do not focus on traffic
safety or do not consider low-latency requirements in this context.
We propose InTraSafEd5G (Increasing Traffic Safety with Edge
and 5G) to address this issue. InTraSafEd5G performs real-time
edge analytics to detect critical situations and deliver early warning
notifications to drivers. After showing a detailed analysis of
the design choices, we provide a prototype implementation of the
system and evaluate its performance in a real-world setup. The
evaluation shows that InTraSafEd5G is able to (i) detect critical
situations on the chosen intersection in real-time and (ii) notify
affected drivers in 108.73𝑚𝑠 on average using 5G, which is within
expected latency requirements of road safety IoT applications. Our
solution shows a promising step towards increasing overall traffic
safety and supporting decision-making in critical situations.
5G Use Case Challenge City of Vienna