Development of a Vehicle Speed Monitoring and Reporting System

Abstract

Speed monitoring and reporting system is one of the major systems required to curb the issue of sudden accident due to reckless driving and over-speeding. Traffic surveillance has become crucial in this day and age where the number of vehicles on the road has risen considerably. To preserve the safety of motorists, traffic law enforcement assign speed limits at different locations throughout the country. However, irresponsible motorists still exceed the speed limit, since they know it is unlikely that they will get caught. In this project, a system is developed which is capable of detecting moving vehicles in a video and displays the vehicle's speed as it goes. Should a vehicle exceed the allowed speed limit, it will snap the vehicle and extract the plate number region of the vehicle so it can be sent to the traffic law enforcer to take necessary action. The system uses MATLAB as a simulation platform since it provides comprehensive toolbox such as image processing toolbox and techniques; background separation, feature extraction, edge detection and morphology operations used with the advantage of web services to send mail to the required authourity.