• Kalamani P
• Anil Kumar M
• Harsha M
• Guruprasad HN
• Madhushankar C

In recent years, with an ever-increasing rate of development in metro cities around the world, there has been proportional increase in numbers of automobiles on the roads. Although the number of vehicles using the roads has increased, the static road infrastructure is almost the same and is unable to cope with changes like congestion, unpredictable travel-time delays and road-accidents that are taking a serious shape. Traffic congestion has been one of the major concerns faced by the metropolitan cities today in spite of measures being taken to mitigate and reduce it. It has emerged as one of the mainchallenge for developers in urban areas for planning of sustainable cities. In developing countries, like India, traffic is inherently chaotic and noisy. Road Divider is generically used for dividing the Road for ongoing and incoming traffic. This helps keeping the flow of traffic. Generally, there is equal number of lanes for both ongoing and incoming traffic. For example, in any city, there is industrial area or shopping area where the traffic generally flows in one direction in the morning or evening. The other side of Road divider is mostly either empty or under-utilized. This is true for peak morning and evening hours. This results in loss of time for the car owners, traffic jams as well as underutilization of available resources. Our idea is to formulate a mechanism of automated movable road divider that can shift lanes, so that we can have more number of lanes in the direction of the rush. An Automated movable road divider can provide a solution to theabove-mentioned problem effectively. This is possible through IOT. IOT refers to Internet of Things where the actual digitalization comes into picture. Here sensors play a major role. We can achieve this using Arduino board. The sensors placed on the dividers sense the flow of traffic whether flow of traffic is smooth or not? If the flow is smooth on either side then there is nothing to worry but the lane which is having more traffic, the divider is moved to a certain distance to the smoother lane in order to smoothen the busy lane.

"SMART MOVABLE ROAD DIVIDER USING IoT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.334-338, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCJ06076.pdf

"SMART MOVABLE ROAD DIVIDER USING IoT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp334-338, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCJ06076.pdf