A Smart/Efficient Method to Facilitate Highway Pedestrian Protection

Background/Objectives: To ensure pedestrian safety in highways predominantly at night. Application: By introducing piezoelectric sensors embedded on highways, which automates the notification lamps that help both pedestrian and drivers to know each other’s presence. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The basic method we implement is getting the feed of digital HIGH and digital LOW from the piezoelectric crystals. The state of the pedestrian cross decides the output signal of the notification lamp. This helps the fast drivers on the highway to adjust their acceleration with prior alert of movement on the road. The prototype result with few minutes delay of glowing, the notification lamp can be set in real time with little more depending on the length of the cross. Findings: The night time travelers on the highway have the difficulty of vision due to optical problems of the front vehicle glass. The irritation due to high beam of the opposite vehicles distract the proper vision of the road. The pedestrians from local area are becoming a casualty of this situation. And the speed at which the drivers come is not possible to reduce in small period of time. Prior alert is required for this.