Intelligent transportation system for accident prevention and detection

Abstract

In a developing nation like India, with advancement in the transportation technology and rise in the total number of vehicles, road accidents increases rapidly. This advancement in technology also increased the traffic hazards. Two wheelers accounts for 25% of total road crash death. Hence the ratio of road accidents that take place frequently increases causing immense loss of life due to poor emergency facilities. Main causes behind these road accidents are lack of training institutes, unskilled drivers, poor road conditions, use of cell phone during driving, consuming alcohol while driving, over loading and poor governmental plans in this regard. Plenty of solutions have been applied to prevent these road accidents, like designing stringent rules and regulations. But most of them failed to prevent accidents. This paper provides an intelligent system for two wheeler accident prevention and detection for human life safety. The prevention part involves, Smart Helmet, which automatically checks whether the person is wearing the helmet and has non-alcoholic breath while driving. The relay does not ON the engine if these two conditions are not satisfied. The microcontroller controls the function of relay and thus the ignition. The system also enables detection of an accident at any place and reports about the accident to predefined numbers with GSM module. The Microcontroller continuously records all the parameters of automobile for prevention and detection of accident.