An automatic speed violation detection framework for VANETs

Research has shown that the highest rates of road accident are caused by high speed vehicles. In an attempt to mitigate this problem, the authority has specified speed limits on the roads in order to regulate the speed of vehicles. To successfully enforce the speed limit law, a mechanism for monitoring a vehicle speed is required. There are numerous measures in use for detecting and monitoring the speed limit violators. Some of these methods include the use of speed cameras, radar, loop detector, police officers, and many more. These traditional methods are not effective due to their setbacks, which ranges from the cost of acquiring equipment, increase labour and manpower, and inadequacy of monitoring. As such, a simple, cost effective and easily deployed speed detection technique that can overcome the shortcomings of the traditional methods is imperative. In this paper, we proposed an automatic speed violation detection framework, which integrates the RFID and VANETs technologies. The proposed system is cost effective and user centred. The paper concludes by presenting the system implementation via a Graphical User Interface (GUI).