Accident Detection and Emergency Alerting System for Road Safety

Abstract

On road accidents is a key issue for road safety and is a major source of loss of lives both of the drivers and commuters. Even with all modern developments in the field of vehicle design, road lane design and management, accidents are still more common. Timely accident detection and the concurrent action in providing emergency health care to the victims are necessary to ensure road safety. This may be ensured by informing an emergency healthcare and administration units like hospitals and police stations about the accident on priority. Road traffic accidents contribute to large number of deaths world-wide every year. In these cases it is necessary to inform the family members in time and seek healthcare assistance at the earliest. Unfortunately, in many cases either the family members are communicated very late or the emergency services reach the spot at a delayed time. The delay in attending the accident victims, informing the concerned authorities and family and in mobilization of ambulance services for relocating the victims for immediate healthcare lead to casualty and many a times to fatal injuries. This paper proposes real-time accident detection and alerting system that uses smartphones. Every smartphone has number of sensors embedded in its design. Our system makes use of few of these commonly available sensors across all smartphones to build a web application for remote monitoring. The system will provide faster response time in locating and mobilizing the emergency services for the victims. When the system detects an accident it alerts the nearest emergency station like police administration, healthcare service and ambulance operators of the same. It also provides real time tracking for these emergency service providers.