HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION BASED TRAFFIC

LIGHT SYSTEM

OBJECTIVE: TO DESIGN A PRODUCT PROTOTYPE FOR A

HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION BASED SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC
LIGHTS IN INDIA.

To understand the basic technology behind the holographic projection we need

to know some basic concepts that are going to be used in this product design
such as hologram, lasers, virtual wall technology and the circuitry involve in
this product design that includes the microcontroller, most probably using the
Arduino uno controller, lasers, some basic electronic components like (resistors,
capacitors, diodes and some more).

To design this product we must divide our project into layers or parts

1. Theoretical concept behind our prototype

2. Logic involved in our project
3. Hardware implementation of the project

Before going into layers or parts we must see why this project is required .This
concept is based on the increasing road accidents that are happening in our
country .since traditional traffic lights are overshadowed by large electronic
advertising signs and the focus is lost at the intersections because lights are less
visible.

This is absolutely a new high tech development to control the road traffic –a
traffic light influencing a driver psychologically and making an optical barrier

1. Theoretical concept behind our prototype:

Hologram- A hologram is a photographic recording of a light field, rather than

of a image formed by a lens, and it is used to display a fully 3-dimensional
image of the holographed subject, which is seen without the aid of a special
glasses or other intermediate optics.
Holography is a technique that enables a light field, which is generally the
product of the light source scattered off objects, to be recorded and later
reconstructed when the original field is no longer due to the absence of original
object .

Digital holography refers to the process of holograms with a digital sensor array
typically a GCD camera or a similar device .Image rendering or reconstruction
of data is performed numerically from digitized interferograms. Several
recording and processing schemes have been developed to assess optical wave
characteristics such as amplitude, phase, and polarization state, which make
digital holography a useful method.

2. Logic Involved In Our Project

To run our project prototype apart from theoretical knowledge we require the
strong logic to implement the project for that we require circuit diagrams,
components and various other things.

Now using the virtual wall terminology we will made a repeating pattern of
infrared signal to send on a carrier wave for that using a pulse width modulation
integrated circuit to send signal.

Basically we will use two vertical rods in which a series of number of infrared
laser beams will be there and on the other rod a reception circuit of these laser
beams .It will be basically a page like structure.

For the coding part part we will be going to use a microcontroller which have
the source code of our circuitry which have all the electrical equivalent
instructions of the image or the signs (Stop, Go, Wait) which is going to be
displayed and all the connections of the circuit is made through this
microcontroller only.

Now for the image processing part we will use the MATLAB software to
abstract the colors of the image that are going to be displayed in the holographic
projection and use particular color for the projection

For Ex. For stopping the vehicle we will display a STOP sign with red color and
for allowing the vehicle using the GO sign with green color and same for the
WAIT sign with yellow color and for the other instructions we can use a
different image or different color combinations or we can display some useful
information regarding safety rules and for the monetary purpose we might can
display some advertisement along with signal to make our project valuable for
the image part we will use the division complex methods i.e space division
complex or depth division complex and will able to replicate a image using this
technique .

3.Hardware implementation of the project

To implement the project successfully on the road for a social cause we require
some electronic circuits and software that are mentioned below

-microcontroller (Arduino Uno )

-infrared laser beams

-vertical rods

-signal IC’s (carrier wave and others)

-electrical components (resistors, capacitors, diodes, wires etc. )

-some useful software (Arduino, MATLAB etc. )

Using all this components we will be able to make a product prototype design
for a holographic projection based traffic light system.

It is a complete understanding document stating the understanding of

technology, logic and hardware components that I will be using in the product
design of holographic projection based traffic light.