Anti-drowsiness Helmet Using Heartbeat Sensor and Thermoelectric Cooler to Help Reduce Accident Rate

Abstract

The high number of traffic accident cases in Indonesia is very alarming. This is caused by various factors, namely, the condition of vehicles that are not worth using, lack of driver alertness, traffic light violations, and sleepy drivers. According to Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi, some of the dominant factors collected in Lebaran 2017 National Transportation Posts stated that the human factor contributed 61% of road accidents, the remaining 30% were environmental and environmental factors, and 9% were due to vehicle factors. Figures 61% that includes negligent, less proficient use of vehicles and drowsiness. Safe helmet, is a tight helmet, closed so that the driver sometimes feel sultry when driving, causing the driver in a hurry to get to the destination. The purpose of this program are: 1) to understand how to design anti-drowsy helmet that can prevent the rampant accident cases caused by sleepy driver; (2) understand how helmet works, and (3) know the superiority of our helmet product compared with other helmets so that the ultimate goal of making this helmet can be useful for society and able to give solution to accident problem especially accident on motorcycle. Due to the problem, we provide anti-drowsy helmet solution which is equipped with Themoelectric cooler to make the driver more comfortable driving. The results of this program is the creation of cold and anti-drowsy helmets as a solution to reduce the number of traffic accidents, especially accidents caused by drowsy motorcycle drivers, works 100% according to its function.