Technology convergence for smart transportation and emergency services in health care

Abstract

Smart Transportation is a model to provide multidimensional advantages such as efficient resource allocation, real-time monitoring of traffic, automatic payments and remote patrolling of highways. Many more advantages of Smart Transportation can be derived due to the convergence of technology used in Internet of Things. Using IoT modules this paper proposes to make intelligent vehicle-roadway communication that can in turn improve transportation efficiency save lives and even positively protect the environment from noise- and air-based hazards. Internationally, the roadways used have remained the same for centuries and has seen no drastic technological change. This technology can pace up the development of the highways and roadways networks by acquiring enormous amount of data that can help analyze the flow of traffic. This Big Data enabled application can also act immediately in the favor of authorities in the form of e-ticketing leading to safer travel. IoT enabled roadways can lead to safer travel along with saving time in critical scenarios such as health-related emergencies. All of these combined have unseen possibilities to make this sector much quicker, safer, and efficient with the use of IoT. This paper also proposes two architectures that can be implemented in emergency services for critical help in healthcare domain.