Inspiration
The inspiration of our project came from the fact that a lot of people in non developed countries still manually adjust traffic by appointing traffic polices or guards as they don't have the funds for the traffic light posts. Our creation can be purchased by government programs managing traffic guards and incoorporated into their uniforms so that less human error will occur, and intersections are made safer for pedestrians, drivers, and the traffic-guards themselves.
What it does
The vest/jacket is very similar to pre-existing uniforms that traffic-guards use, except for our addition of programmed LEDs. The LEDs will be programmed with traffic lights' sequences, and will change automatically so that the traffic-guards don't have to rely on waving hands, and violation of traffic rules in remote areas will occur less. A manual change to the LED color is easily implemented with the click of a button from a traffic guard, should there be the need for it. Chargable batteries save on cost-effinciency, making the implementaiton of our jackets cheaper then installing automated traffic lights (which can cost up to $500,000 to implement). The LEDs also add extra safety features, lighting up the traffic guards at night, where they were previously vulnerable.
How we built it
The Programmable LED system has been built into the typically used Polyester fibers of Traffic-guard vests and jackets with Arduino Embedded Systems.
Challenges we ran into
It has been difficult to get the coding perfect- we would need to consult with experts on traffic timing.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It's many of our member's first hackathon and we learnt time management and teamwork. We've given our best to do it though it is very beginner friendly.
What we learned
We learned how to manage time properly and fianlly finishing a project with equal effort. We also learned new skills in areas that we were not familiar with before. We've certaintly come out of this knowing more about traffic light prices and statistics concerning traffic-guards in non-developed countries.
What's next for Traffic Jacket Team#8
In the future we would like to link these vests with the automatic navigation system of vehicles so that maps can usually identify these vests as traffic lights. As autonomous vehicles are becoming a future, machine learning models can identify those vests in future and can stop the car or make it slow according to the instructions. One goal we have with our vests is to keep the manual workers at these intersections in their jobs, but we want to keep them as safe and as consistantly accurate as possible. With the help of our LED vests, their jobs will become easier without becoming obsolete or replacable.
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