Design And Development Of Wi-Fi Mac Address Sniffing And Counting For Reliable UTeM Bus Services

Lee, Yin Hui (2015) Design And Development Of Wi-Fi Mac Address Sniffing And Counting For Reliable UTeM Bus Services. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Traffic congestion issues have always been a concern for this fast growing metropolitans in which more than 90 percent of trips are made entirely by private means of transportation i.e. by car and motorcycle. As Malaysia is actively engaged in infrastructure development especially in the transportation network to facilitate the movements of people and goods, a high demand for better public transportation is needed to reduce the issue of road congestion (RM5.51 billion of productivity lost annually in Malaysia due to the traffic congestion). Therefore, a cost effective Wi-Fi sniffing based bus commuters’ statistic collection system is designed and developed to predict the necessity of scheduling additional bus services which in turn assist in reducing the waiting time as well as improving the quality of commuting experience. Raspberry-Pi 2 which has substantial computing capability and ability of sniffing each of the unique MAC addresses embedded throughout the communication between nearby smartphones with the free Wi-Fi access point is deployed to the busiest bus stop in UTeM. By implementing the sniffing of probe request and data frames, the number of commuters’ device unique MAC addresses are collected and processed. To validate the feasibility of the proposed system, the amount of sniffed unique MAC address is then cross validated with the captured camera video image installed on the Raspberry-Pi 2. The obtained results also show that variation of sniffed MAC address exhibit parallelism to the actual number of commuters waiting at the bus station as observed in the bus station video image. Result also shows that the MAC address based counting system can help to alert the bus management for better scheduling when the commuter at the particular bus stop is traveling to the same destination.

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