It is important to know the road traffic density real time especially in mega cities for signal control and effective traffic management. In recent years, video monitoring and surveillance systems have been widely used in traffic management. Traffic control is a very difficult task for traffic control department, especially in metro cities. The Project is designed to check the density of traffic in particular place and the information is conveyed to traffic control station. This project is designed with AT89S52 microcontroller. The module consists of a IR emitter and TSOP receiver pair. The high precision TSOP receiver always detects a signal of fixed frequency. Due to this, errors due to false detection of ambient light are significantly reduced. This project uses regulated 5V, 500mA power supply. 7805 three terminal voltage regulator is used for voltage regulation. Bridge type full wave rectifier is used to rectify the ac out put of secondary of 230/12V step down transformer