Biker Accident Detection and Alerting System: Analytical Essay

Abstract:

Emergency never comes with prior intimation. In real world scenarios, detecting such emergency and reporting them is a real challenge. This project contains the detail survey of existing systems and proposed system to overcome common problem of having manual intervention while reporting accidents. In this current research, we proposed an idea which will automate the different processes imposes in a real time accident situation. Inside the model, it uses electronic sensors in the smart phone such as Accelerometer and gyroscope to get acceleration and angular velocity to detect the accident. The developed model works in three steps such as: detection of accident, data collection and reporting it to outside world. Accident will be detected by sudden rise of acceleration and angular velocity in all three directions. This application triggers emergency if there is a sudden rise in acceleration and angular velocity and will send the alert with current location tracked by GPS in the smart phone, incident time to phone numbers which are registered in the application as emergency contacts. Hence the accident spot can be located using data received from the victims phone.

Keywords: Accelerometer, Emergency, GPS, Gyroscope, Location, Smart Phone

I.Introduction

There are many road accidents occur every day in every part of the world. Road accidents are one of the major causes of death, injury and disability in all over the world both in developed and developing countries. With a broad estimate, in every 1 min, 2 people are killed and 95 people are severely injured or permanently disabled in traffic accidents worldwide. Traffic accident related deaths and injuries result in not only substantial economic losses but also serious physical and mental sufferings. Developing countries are much more affected from traffic accidents than developed countries. According to the world health organization (WHO) statistics, 75% of deaths resulted from traffic accidents occurring in developing countries, although they own only 32% of the motor vehicles in the world.

Every person who is involved in an accident is to be charged under section 279, 337 and 338 of the Indian penal code and the person if found guilty in this regard, is fined by the court a maximum amount of 2500 rupees. It is to be noted that the Indian penal code was enacted in the year 1860 and the fine above mentioned was prescribed that year and has not at all been modified till date. Another reason is that almost all the

vehicles are insured and the driver is aware that he is not at all liable for any compensation against the injured. It can be compensated by levying a portion of the burden on the part of the driver and the owner by the courts strictly.

However, if the accidents involve a motorcycle, the chance of survival of the motorcyclist is minimum compare to that of a car driver. Therefore, motorcyclists need special attention for their safety. The motorcycles small stature and moving speed make it difficult for the driver to see them while they make a turn or change a lane or cross an intersection.

II. Literature survey

Ashish Kushwaha et al. in [1] have proposed GPS And GSM Based Accident Alarm System.The purpose of this work is to find the vehicle accident location by means of sending a message using a system which is placed inside the vehicle system.Author has used assembly programming for better accuracy along with GPS and GSM. In this project,whenever a vehicle meets with an accident immediately vibration sensor will detect the signal and send it to the micro-controller. Micro-controller sends the alert message through the GSM to an authorized mobile no. An alternate condition can be allowed by pressing a switch, in order to interrupt the flow of sending the message in case of no casualty.

Hu Jian-ming,Li Jie, Li Guang-Hui et al. in [2] proposed an stolen vehicle recovery system. The system ensured increased safety and credibility.It used C8051F120 micro-controller and a vibration sensor. The vehicle owner gets the message regarding the vehicle location at specific intervals through GSM.

C.Prabha et al. in [3] have presented Automatic Vehicle Accident Detection and Messaging System Using GSM and GPS .In this paper An accelerometer can be used in a car alarm application so that dangerous driving can be detected. This paper is useful in detecting the accident precisely by means of both vibration sensor and Micro electro Mechanical system (MEMS) or accelerometer. In this project GPS is used for tracking the position of the vehicle, GSM, ARM controller is used for saving the mobile number in the EEPROM and sending the message to it when an accident has occurred.

T. Krishna Kishore et al. in [4]emphasised on a system that is cost effective and also inculcates the modern internet facility for networking purposes.Linux operating system has been used along with General Packet Radio Service(GPRS).Advancements include more exact identification of the vehicle location at all times,data transfer facilitation,and freedom from software monitoring.

NiravThakor et al. in [5] have presented Automatic Vehicle Accident Detection System Based on ARM &GPS.The system detects the vehicle accident with the help of vibration sensor or MEMS sensor. GPS module captured the location of vehicle accident and a message is transmitted with the help of GSM modem. which contains the co-ordinates values.One more facility is also provided which can be very handy during the critical times. If a person requires help due to other reasons like having symptoms of heart attack.in such a situation all he has to do is to press a single switch provided in the system. By pressing this switch a message is transmitted by the GSM module to the help centre which contains the location of car provided by GPS with the information of the user.

III.Methodology

The prototype of this Bike accident detection and Alerting system uses the following steps:

• Sensors such as accelerometer and gyroscope detects the collision and rollover of vehicle.
• The latitude and longitude are detected using GPS.
• Once the accident or rollover is detected by the sensors an alert will be sent to registered mobile numbers automatically.

IV. Proposed system

The system consists of an accident detection and alerting system along with an Android application. The proposed system deals with an automatic accident detection system involving vehicles which sends information about the accident including the location, the time of the accident to friends and relatives. This information is sent in the form of an alert message. But in the cases where In there are no casualties a switch is provided which can be turned off by the driver to terminate sending the alert message. A smart phone is used to send the alert message and GPS in smart phone is used to detect the location of the accident. The decision of whether an accident has occurred or not will be done on the basis of an algorithm using sensors. Gyroscope sensor in smart phone also helps in measuring the speed of angle of roll. In case of an accident the accident detection system will send an alert message to the phone numbers registered in the application as emergency contacts stating that an accident has occurred along with the message the current location of the vehicle.

Bike accident alerting application detects the accident using sensors in the smart phone. Our application sends the alert with location of the victim tracked using GPS in the smart phone to the phone numbers registered in the application as emergency contacts. Hence the accident spot can be located using in location sent by the application in victims phone.

V. Results

On turning drive mode on the application sends request for the location updates to the Fused Location provider and the received location is displayed on the Google maps on the maps activity. The current location is displayed as dot with circle around it which represents the accuracy of the location. The following is the maps activity.

When the acceleration and angular velocity reaches the threshold the collision is detected and a dialog box with beeping sound and vibrating according to the user’s setting and it says collision is detected and it will wait for specified time before sending alert. On clicking on send now or when count down time reaches zero it sends the alert.

The alert message is sent to all the emergency contacts with message containing Google maps location link and also initiates call to them one after another.

VI. Conclusion

This system provides the optimum solution to poor emergency facilities provided to victims in road accidents in the most feasible way. With the help of this technology immediate action can be taken when an accident occurs by alerting the respective people by sending a message. The drawback with this system is that it does not work without network. So in areas where no network is available the system will not be able to send the alert message.

The proposed method is highly beneficial to the automotive industry. This will help the medical teams to reach the accident spot in time and save the valuable human lives. There is always scope for new improvements by interfacing it with different systems.

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