A Distributed Emergency Vehicle Transit System Using Artificial Intelligence of Things (DEVeTS-AIoT)

The advent of the 4th industrial revolution has realized smart environments composed of cloud and fog. These have been improved to enable intelligence at the fog, where numerous, inexpensive devices communicate with each other and provide computation capabilities to solve domain-specific problems in a distributed fashion. One of these domains is smart traffic flow with a focus on emergency vehicle (EV) transit. The increase in traffic congestion in third-world countries is a hindrance in EV transit to save human lives. This paper proposes an Artificial Intelligence of Things– (AIoT–) based, distributed, EV transit system developed on Raspberry PI as a rule-based system with minimal sensors. The sensors include an infrared sensor to detect emergency light and directional microphones to detect siren. The departure direction of the EV is shared with adjacent intersections to further reduce the transit time.