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      <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2583-7214</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>TMP Universal Journal of Research and Review Archives</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2583-7214</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Ms Ashvi Jain</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.69557/ujrra.v2i4.61</article-id>
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        <article-title>FAULTS AND SOLUTIONS FOR SMART TRAFFIC LIGHTS</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ahmad</surname>
            <given-names>Muhammad Baballe</given-names>
          </name>
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          <name>
            <surname>Musa</surname>
            <given-names>Umar Farouk</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ohiani</surname>
            <given-names>Yakubu Abdulkareem</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Abimbola</surname>
            <given-names>Mustapha Babatunde</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="aff-1">Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Nigerian Defence Academy (N.D.A), Kaduna, Nigeria</aff>
      <aff id="aff-2">Department of Architectural Technology, School of Enviromental Studies Gwarzo, Kano State Polytechnic, Nigeria</aff>
      <aff id="aff-3">Aircraft Engineering Department, Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna, Nigeria</aff>
      <aff id="aff-4">Department of Electrical Engineering, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-01-08">
        <day>08</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2024 Muhammad Baballe Ahmad</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">
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            This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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      <self-uri xlink:href="https://tmp.twistingmemoirs.com/index.php/ujrra/article/view/61"/>
      <abstract>
        <p>Ambulances, fire departments, and police cars are examples of emergency vehicles (EVs) that greatly benefit communities by saving lives and deterring theft and criminal activity. Automatic control systems are a novel kind of advanced system that functions as a driving system using hardware controllers and computers. We require automatic adaptive controllers to manage the traffic light system's open and shut functions since an increase in the number of cars while maintaining the same infrastructure led to a significant traffic issue. In addition to the difficulty emergency vehicles have reaching their location due to traffic congestion caused by heavy cars, traffic problems also include red-light traffic violations, which typically result in accidents on the roadways. Traffic conditions worsen as a result of more cars on the road, making it more difficult to make room for emergency vehicles like ambulances, rescue fire engines, and emergence vehicles. An IoT sensor-based system that detects the arrival of an ambulance at the hotspots using the signals the ambulance sends out can be built to prevent problems waiting for traffic signals in an emergency. The system would then maintain the signals appropriately.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Automatic Control</kwd>
        <kwd>Sensor</kwd>
        <kwd>Accidents</kwd>
        <kwd>Traffic Problems</kwd>
        <kwd>Congestion</kwd>
        <kwd>Vehicles</kwd>
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