A Destination Notification System for Disembarking Public Transportation using Smart Devices and High Frequencies

As a result of the recent rapid increase in smart technologies, many people now enjoy movies and music content through their smart devices while using public transportation. However, because their concentration is aimed at content on their smart devices, passengers sometimes forget to disembark and miss their destination stations. In this paper, we therefore propose a destination notification system for disembarking public transport using high frequencies based on the smart devices themselves. The proposed application could support automatic debarkation notifications when the smart device approaches the destination station. We tested destination notification with the proposed system and ten smart devices to evaluate its performance. According to the test results, the proposed system showed 99.4% accuracy and was therefore confirmed as potentially very useful. As such, the proposed system could be a useful technology for notifying smart device users when to get off public transport, capable of global commercialization.