A rapid deployment wireless sensor network for sustainable urban mobility

Mobility in urban environments is constrained by a steadily growing traffic, while infrastructures usually cannot be expanded. Therefore, improving mobility and sustainability must go hand in hand with a better management of available resources, incorporating traffic control strategies that can be adapted to real conditions at any given time. One of the main obstacles is obtaining the necessary information to implement such schemes, because of either the information these systems provide, or the cost and time they require to be deployed. A feasible alternative is wireless sensor networks, which can provide information about conditions in an area of interest in order to allow more efficient planning and deployment of more sophisticated algorithms control. At the same time, such a sensor network can be deployed quickly and at a limited cost.