DAR ES SALAAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

BACHELOR IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
PROJECT TITLE: DESIGN A REAL TIME DATA SYSTEM FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR AT BAGAMOYO ROAD

NAME: NICO I SIMEO

ADM NO: 190330323006
CLASS: BENG20-EE
SUPERVISOR: DR MWAKA
YEAR: 2023/2024
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
Current road construction projects lack a sophisticated real time data system for
collecting data essential in road construction .This is due to the use of a person to
count the passing vehicles manually and not including the weight of respective
vehichiles ,resulting in not getting complete data.The absence of such a system
hinders effective construction planning , maintenance and the ability to assess
potential impacts on the road surface.
 MAIN OBJECTIVES
 The main objective is to design a real time data system for road
construction and repair
 SPECIFIC
OBJECTIVES
• To design a robust system for measuring weight of passing vehicles
• To design system for vehicles counting
• To interface the control unit with input and output devices
• To build and test the prototype
 METHODOLOGY
I. Literature Review
II. Data collection
III. Data analysis
IV. Designing the circuit
V. Construction and testing prototype
VI. Report writting
EXISTING SYSTEM(LITERATURE REVIEW)
EXISTING SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM

Vehicle Operator
PROPOSED SYSTEM (LITERATURE REVIEW)
PROPOSED SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM

Power supply

Weight
sensor Display

Vehicle
Signal
Control unit
conditioning
Count Data base
sensor
DATA COLLECTION
 Total vehicles
09:00-12:00

12:00-15:00

15:00-18:00

18:00-21:00

21:00-23:00
06:00-09.00
MWENGE
INTERSECTION
(MWENGE TO
TEGETA)
Vehicles types

Mini bus<= 32 155 150 145 151 132 120 853

seat

Large bus >=40 5 5 3 7 4 4 28

seat

Car(small, 385 345 320 354 355 315 2074

medium large

Light truck 47 30 20 10 8 5 120

Medium truck 45 54 39 57 45 35 275

Heavy truck 40 74 34 25 15 17 205