International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056 Volume: 04 Issue: 05 | May -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 5.181 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 3137 SMARTIBLE: Smart Ticketing Based On Bluetooth Low Energy Roomana Hasan 1 , V. L. Kolhe 2 1 MTech. Scholar, Computer Engineering, D. Y. Patil College of Engineering, Pune (India) 2 Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering, D. Y. Patil College of Engineering, Pune (India) ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has been adopted by many metropolitans in the world to meet the growing demand on public transportation system. Implementation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has greatly improved mass transportation, yet there is scope available to further improve experience of daily commuters and increase overall efficiency of the system. In this paper, a novel approach of bus ticketing system has been proposed that will significantly reduce the number of in- vehicle cash based ticketing and eventually convert it into fully automated system. The solution is based on latest advancement in low power wireless technology called Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Low cost, reliability and longevity makes it very attractive option as compared to RFID. The proposed solution aims to ease life of daily commuters and in-bus staffs. Furthermore it will support the digitization of the system and help in becoming truly smart city. Key Words: RFID, BLE, BRT, IOT, Mobility, Transportation, Rasberry Pi 1. INTRODUCTION Human population is growing day by day and hence the number of travellers who depend on public transportation is also growing at almost similar pace. This continuous growth in commuters requires developing fast and very efficient public mass transportation infrastructure which can sustain for a few decades. Existing ticketing system used inside bus is not very commuter friendly and involves cash transaction which requires cash collectors. A crowded bus makes the ticketing process even more difficult and annoying for commuters. To improve the situation, a commuter friendly automated system is proposed in this paper. The proposed system will automatically detect identity of commuter on boarding event, calculated the distance travelled based on de-boarding event and then automatically calculate fare and deduct from commuter’s account. Proposed system will also take care of fraud detection by detecting a commuter who travels without card balance and notify to enforcement department in real time. The proposed bus ticketing system is based on new Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology [1]. BLE is the power version of Bluetooth that was built to enable Internet- of-Things (IoT). It uses 2.4 GHz frequency band for communication. The new standard promises range upto 100 meter but the battery powered BLE device has range of about 15-20 feet which makes it ideal choice for short range personal area networks (PAN). Several wearable devices and mobile phones are available in the market which is based on this new standard. 2. RELATED WORK Various automated wireless technology based ticketing system has been proposed in the past. A comparative study is presented in this paper [2]. RFID tag based bus ticketing system has been popular topic among researcher community and several papers have been published. Ahammed Aslam et.al[3] presented a fully automated, reliable, transparent and convenient system for ticketing in PTS. Saurabh Chatterjee et.al [4] suggest a commuter friendly automated traffic control system which will automatically detect a vehicle using the RFID tag installed in the vehicle and as soon as the vehicle passes by a reader, this process would lead to identification of each vehicle leading to better scheduling and efficient utilization of the resources. Md.Foisal Mahedi Hasan et.al [5] describes about the public transport ticketing system, dominating in the megacity Dhaka (Bangladesh) which leads severe fault in the system, hateful argument among community, dishonesty and most of all traffic blockage. This paper actually suggests a much more passenger friendly, automated system of ticketing as well as the credit transaction with the use of RFID based tickets. Varun Krishna K.G et.al [6] suggests the use of RFID technology to provide an efficient and enhanced automated ticketing system. One of the key issues associated with RFID solution is reliability in automatically detecting the passenger’s presence and identification. Sriharsha Kuchimanchi [8] proposed Generic Atrribute (GATT) based ticketing profile which requires Bluetooth smart devices. The proposed solution requires connectivity between detector device and passenger handheld. Inspiration has been taken from these works in order to propose a low cost yet reliable system that can be implemented in BRT to save capital expenditure and deliver automated ticketing service. 3. PROPOSED SOLUTION In this paper, BLE has been proposed as core wireless technology to implement automatic bus ticketing. There are two major components of the solution-IOT sensor and BLE tag. Buses in the BRT system will be fitted with two IOT sensors, one at entrance and one at the exit in order to quickly identify the commuter. Location of the bus can be identified either using in-built GPS device or alternative method presented here. One high range BLE node will be installed at each BRT stop and IOT sensor installed inside bus