| dc.description.abstract | Motor vehicle accidents are frequent incidents with disastrous results. The methods used to detect and report the accidents are slow and cumbersome, leading to avoidable losses and casualties Accurate, reliable and electronically accessible motor vehicle accident data is unavailable in many developing countries Instant GPS based motor vehicle accident detection and reporting solution has been developed using existing technologies to overcome these deficiencies. With the improvement in transportation infrastructure and in-vehicle technology in addition to the increase in the total number of cars on the road, traffic accidents may occur, which usually causes a high death toll. More than half of these deaths occur due to a delayed response by medical care providers and rescue authorities. We have designed, constructed, built and tested the functionality of a device. the system utilizes a GPS and GSM module, Noise and Accelerometer/gyroscope module. The device is mounted onto the vehicle, once an accident occurs, it’s detected and the system generates an alert message. It then sends the message along with the accident location to all the available hospitals or ambulance teams in our database. We, believe that our device provides a more improved alert notification system and user-friendly engagement as the coordinates provided do not in any way need any decoding as they are provided as a google maps link. It as well saves response search as once the device is connected to the car, it will connect to the satellite and obtain the location coordinates i.e. the latitude and longitude. Once the accident occurs the values are then sent to the response teams in a user- friendly format. Our project design is developed into two subsystems, the main components in our device are the GPS, GSM modules, gyroscope and noise sensors. The sensors are responsible for the accident notification part of the device as the modules are responsible for the communication part of the system. We have been able to meet all our project objectives despite several challenges we faced due to the lockdown. Notable among these challenges is that we could not access the laboratory to draw a PCB for final circuit completion given the time scope presented to us. | en_US |
