The Internet of Things is a network of interconnected devices or objects that are provided with the ability to send and receive data, thereby paving the way for a smarter world. The existing bus tracking system is based only on Global Positioning System and provides the current location of the bus in terms of latitude and longitude. The proposed system uses Global Positioning system and the Radio Frequency Identification Technology to track, locate and monitor the buses. The system uses an android application to list out all the available buses operating between the specified source and destination along with the route and their operating time slots. The estimated arrival time of the bus and the passenger’s reaching time to their destination, is predicted based on the calculated Haversine distance between the source and destination, GPS location of the bus and the average speed of the bus. An automatic passenger counting system is provided to keep in track of the total number of passengers travelling in the bus and the overcrowded buses are intimated to the users through the android application.

Internet of Things, Bus tracking, Passenger count, Arrival Time Prediction, Haversine

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