An Ultrasonic Sensor System for Vehicle Detection Application

This study develops an ultrasonic sensor system that can be used to determine the number, type, and speed of car vehicles passing a point over some specified time period. The proposed system consists of two ultrasonic sensors and a microcontroller equipped with data logging shield. The data were recorded and then analyzed using a computer program written in Java. Actual experiments that have been conducted indicates that this system can give a correct number of vehicles in a given interval of time.