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Welcome to Smart Roadside Indicator!


As we stroll down the streets, we see frequent roadside indicator boards with specific messages on them- like the speed limit, or speedbreaker ahead, Do not blow horn and so on. But when we are busy driving, we can miss these signs, and sometimes, the result is disastrous. So we thought, why not take this to another level? So here we are, with our audible traffic signs, which will tell you whatever the indiator board is trying to say.


This project was done by six students of batch 07, Department of CSE, BUET as a term project for Digital System Design(CSE-404) Course.

About Our Project


What we are going to do??

We are going to aware the drivers about the roadside signs while they are driving.

What do we have in real life??

We have some indicator-boards on road side with helpful information . Like these

                                          

A Little Improvement!!

Lets make the indicator-boards audible . Now, you will hear what an indicator board is trying to mean.

How Is It Possible??

Let the indicator board shares some data with the running transport. Now the question is, what will be the medium of sharing data? From the scenario described above it is quite obvious the medium is wireless. We are placing the transmitter at the board and attaching the receiver with the cars.

           

the transmitter continuously transmits a particular bit stream which acts as an encoding of the indicator board. Receiver receives the bit stream and decodes it to find the corresponding audio file to play. Thereby using a Digital-to-Analog Converter(DAC), we will produce sound from the sound file stored in an SD/MicroSD card.

What have we used to physically implement the Idea??

To add wireless support to the project, we used KST RX806E as receiver and KST TX01 as the transmitter. Both of them are cheap, and that's one of the main reasons we used them. It does not support UART very well. so we used encoder-decoder pair for an error free wireless communication. Encoder(TX2C) is used at transmitter end and decoder(RX2C) is used in the receiver side. To get an analog flavour of digital data we used DAC0808. We used a microSD card and an SD card Adapter from Sandisk to interface it with the micro-controller. Finally, we used Atmega16 micro-controller to manage all the proceedings at the receiver end.

                                   


Block Diagrams


                   

Transmission

           

Receiving


Cost of Implementation

Equipments Price
ATMega16 250 BDT
RXTC TXTC pair 150 BDT
KST RX TX pair 850 BDT
DAC 200 BDT
Speaker 50 BDT
SD Card 300 BDT
IC 7805(5 piece) 50 BDT
Breadboards(2 piece) 500 BDT
Capacitors, resistors, LEDs and etc. 200 BDT
Other costs 500 BDT


Challenges We Faced

  • wireless communication using UART was a pretty big challenge.
  • Reading from SD Card and transmitting the sound using DAC was difficult
  • A mapping had to be introduced for retrieving sound file from the encoded bitstream

Developers


Sayeed Salam

Samin Yasar

Farig Yousuf Sadeque

Dipon Lal Shaw

Md. Lisul Islam

Tanveer Mahmudul Hasan

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