Diseño e implementación de una Red inalámbrica para el Control de Reguladores de tránsito programables autosustentables, mediante el uso de Módulos XBEE Pro y Paneles Solares

Abstract

The present degree work seeks the design of a wireless intelligent traffic light that can be connected to a vehicle traffic controller, with the characteristics of efficient and self-sustaining communication through solar panels, achieving a new and innovative equipment within conventional traffic light systems, where the needs of some aspects related to traffic lights can be met, respecting above all basic rules established for vehicular traffic in our country. For the realization of the project, a microcontroller is used as a fundamental element, which performs tasks of acquisition, processing and sending order of data obtained from the exits of the traffic regulator corresponding to each of the traffic lights which operate at the intersection. For the transmision and reception of wireless data corresponding to the traffic light phases, XBee Pro modules are used that are easily accessible devices and that have an excellent acceptance by the industry and designers (modules that have been tested in various situations by experts and that have been successful in their tests), which use them to carry out projects with wireless signals, and in addition to guaranteeing reliability and security against minimal data loss. It should be noted that the equipment has a hybrid power system, capable of being energized with the electricity grid or a self-sustaining system such as solar panels, charge regulators, batteries and inverters that guarantees that the traffic lights always remain on, even if there is a blackout for several hours (protection against any possible situation that arises).