Vehicle positioning system with accident detection using accelerometer sensor and Android technology

Abstract

The population of our present world has raised tremendously which in turn leading to some new changes in the human kind. In accordance with the basic necessities, the comfort living of human life with the luxuries and life styles are also customized in such a way that, instead of using public transportation every individual want to have their own vehicle, which may result in heavy traffic and unnecessary accidents. By this the number of private vehicles increased a lot which resulted in more number of accidents and as well as pollution which is going to be a great loss to this environment. On the other hand there is no security for the vehicles as they are getting stolen by thieves easily. The accident discovery and its identification of exact location is the overall idea of the paper. With a new technology through which one can effectively know about his vehicle conditions. For this, the paper adopted two different technologies namely embedded and android. Embedded technology is used to detect the accident using accelerometer sensor and android technology is used to determine the name of that location instead of latitude and longitude values so that even a layman can understand these values and can know about the vehicle location. An android app that specifies the location name when the mobile receives GPS data plays a major role in the paper. Thus, with this the user could be knowing about his vehicle location and condition through which positioning and locating a vehicle can be done in an easy and simple manner with less cost and more effectiveness. Embedded C programming and android app development are employed to perform the application.