Patent ID: 9672732
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G08C,G08G

Claim:
1. An integrated pedestrian access system, said system comprising one or more wireless push buttons adapted to transmit and receive wireless signals and one or more receivers connected to one or more traffic controllers and to one or more pedestrian signal heads, wherein said one or more receivers are configured to at least: communicate with said one or more wireless push buttons through a plurality of wireless messages; communicate among a plurality of said one or more receivers; determine whether a source device from which a signal for registering a pedestrian signal request is received through said communication is said one or more wireless push buttons or said one or more receivers; determine a status of pedestrian signal, when pedestrians proximity to a crosswalk at a time when the request was received by the receiver, based on one or more signals received from said one or more pedestrian signal heads or from said one or more traffic controllers; register said pedestrian signal request if a walk signal of a pedestrian signal is not on in a desired direction as per said status of pedestrian signal; and provide an acknowledgement corresponding to said status of pedestrian signal through said source device.