Desarrollo de un dispositivo IoT en cloud para determinar el tiempo de arribo de un bus de transporte público a la estación en la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

The public transport service in the city of Quito has been subject to various questions in its operation, becoming a concern for the corresponding authorities, and it is crucial to highlight that this service faces several challenges in terms of innovation, such as route redundancy, failure to meet the minimum comfort indicator, and non-compliance with route times.In this context, the following project arises, focused mainly on addressing the time control of urban transport buses in the city of Quito, specifically focused on the company DISUNTRAN S.A. For which we propose the design of a portable device that uses the global positioning system (GPS) in order to collect data, which will be sent through the Internet of Things (IoT) through the implementation of modules such as ESP32 responsible for managing other modules such as GPS and GSM. It should be noted that these modules have been programmed using Arduino software. Subsequently, the information is stored in the cloud via a database, in this case Firebase. The information, presented in string format, will provide relevant variables for the precise calculation of the time elapsed between stations while the bus is running. For the development of the mobile application, a development software called Visual Studio is used. With this tool, it is possible to remotely manage the location of the bus, thus enabling real-time calculation of the intervals between stations. This functionality is integrated jointly with the Firebase platform, in collaboration with other dependencies and compatible libraries, thus guaranteeing a cross-platform application.