| dc.description.abstract | The government of Uganda is undertaking various endeavors to improve on the road safety and among
the aspects that is majorly considered is fighting over speeding on roads as for over two decades,
speeding has been the reason for approximately one third of all the motor vehicle fatalities worldwide
(The Consequences of Speeding, 2022). And various efforts are being undertaken like putting up
infrastructure like road cameras for monitoring, equipping traffic officers at check points with speed
guns, legislating and putting up laws to fight over speeding and giving penalties through the EPS and
sensitization campaigns like Tweddeko campaign by Viva energy group encouraging drivers not to drive
at high speeds and many more solutions are welcome.
It is upon this background that we undertook this project with the objective of developing an embedded
system that detects the speed of a moving vehicle and automatically reports to police through SMS in
case the set speed limit is exceeded to aid in the campaign of fighting over speeding in a more effective
manner using ICT.
During the system requirements elicitation phase, data was collected through studying documentation,
interviews, observation, focus group discussions and online questionnaires. The system was
implemented using a number of components and modules such as GPS module, GSM module, Arduino
Uno microcontroller, speed sensor, dc motors, motor driver, jump wires, breadboard, LCD screen and
the algorithm written using C programming language in the Arduino IDE. Data analysis was done using
python data science libraries like matplotlib, seaborn, and pandas, and the findings showed that
whereas most of the respondents were willing to embrace the culture of curbing over speeding so as to
reduce on road accidents, they showed willingness to have an improved automated system put in place
to curb over speeding.
Some desirable features were suggested for inclusion on the automated vehicle over speeding system
such as displaying the current speed for the vehicle and the current location’s speed limit together on
the LCD screen to keep drivers updated of the current speed limit.
The logical design and physical design were done and the system was implemented with all the
suggested features. An early system prototype was established for user testing and validation. It is
highly recommended that drivers in Uganda embrace the system to make their contribution to this
system, Uganda’s big solution to the over speeding problem. | en_US |
