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Abstract – As travelling is a necessity for humans in order an accident has occurred, the most important thing is
to meet their requirements but now it has turned to be to pass information of occurrence of accident. Many
dangerous. Accident threatens human lives and road people lost their lives due to improper facility of
accidents are increasing day by day. Victims mostly lose
medical services. In this paper we incorporated a
their lives due to delay in arrival of emergency medical
MEMS accelerometer for vehicle accident detection
services. Proper information of accident detection should
be acknowledged by the family members and alerting the and developed a wireless system for smart rescue
surrounding areas. In this paper, an efficient wireless operation using GPS/GSM.
system is incorporated with MEMS accelerometer and
implemented for vehicle accident detection and a smart The MEMS accelerometer identifies any tilt or
rescue system is employed using GPS and GSM. MEMS vibration of the vehicle and communicates with a
accelerometer sensor is used in tilt sensing of vehicle controller and an automated is sent to the family
resulting from motion or shock. If any accident is members via wireless system. This automated
detected by accelerometer, it sends an automated message message contains the location or the co-ordinates of
to the programmed mobile numbers like the EMS, family the vehicle accident area and immediately we can
members and immediate action can be taken by the police
track down the vehicle via google maps. Also,
via GSM module.
immediate medical services can be employed and
Keywords: Accident detection, Wireless system, prevent the victim by fatal death. This entire system
MEMS Accelerometer, Arduino, GPS device, GSM is controlled by Arduino which controls all the
module activities in the system. The IR sensors are used to
monitor the obstacles continuously.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
In this modern world as the population has
reached to 753.04 crores, the number of accidents is To protect people from accidents and to keep
on high due to increase in number of vehicles. Well, continuous tracking of vehicle, so many technologies
this might lead to traffic jams, pollution and other are available now-a-days. In olden days, the
problems. But the major thing is that people are technology is not that improvised as today and
highly prone to accidents due to the over speeding of accident area cannot be identified, only the
vehicles and reaching out to the maximum speed information of accident is transferred.
where one should never do it. This may lead to lose a
life and put other passengers in danger. Now-a-days, In any vehicle airbags are designed and are
accidents occur on roads and highways, due to more used for secure and safe travel [2]. The air
number of vehicle drivers driving beyond speed bag system was introduced in the year 1968.
limits, drunk driving, riding without helmet, and
taking up a phone call while driving. So attention TPMS is system designed to control the
must be given to road safety which is an issue. When pressure inside the pneumatic tires on
vehicles that provides different operating
conditions such as a lower tire pressure is Arduino.cc. The arduino is the major control unit to
desired in order to maximize traction, detect or alert when an accident occurs. It collects the
maneuvering through challenging terrain, data from MEMS accelerometer, GPS and GSM
pulling a heavy load out of an incline at modules and reflects the output either in display
slow speeds, crawling out of soft dirt. The system or through a message. Here accelerometer
pressure ranges from 15 to 45 PSI.
sensor plays a major role. This accelerometer will
detect tilt in the vehicle which in turn acts as a
The other existing system uses IOT and
cloud computing system. The vehicle accident detection module. Arduino gathers the
detection id is obtained through SVM information from all other modules and sends the
(support vehicle machine) that is developed message to the receiver through GSM module.
by Ant Colony Algorithm (ACA). Here IOT
will monitor the vehicles using magneto II.MEMS ACCELEROMETER
resist sensors. The main aim of this project
is to differentiate the accidents which took An accelerometer is electromechanical
place in traffic and at no traffic place. device that measure acceleration forces. These forces
may be static, like the constant force of gravity
Existing system also provides the location pulling at our feet, or they could be dynamic-caused
of the accident using Atmega 328 by moving or vibrating the accelerometer.
Microcontroller and RF transmitter and Accelerometers are sensor or transducers that
receiver. The information is send to the
generally measures acceleration forces applied to
saved mobile numbers [3].
body by being mounted directly on to a surface of the
accelerated body. Accelerometer in terms of ‘g’ (‘g’
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM is acceleration measurement for gravity which is
equal to 9.81 m/s2). It is useful in detecting motion of
The Hardware framework for vehicle accident the object. The MMA7361L is 3-axis accelerometer.
detection and smart rescue system is shown in fig 1. It is low profile capacitive MEMS sensor featuring
The hardware consists of Arduino, MEMS low pass filter, temperature compensation and g-
accelerometer, GSM module, GPS module, IR Select which allows for the selection among two
sensor, buzzer, LCD display. sensitivities (1.5g / 6g). MMA7361L mostly used for
free fall detection, car crashes detection, tilt and
motion sensing, text scroll, image stability etc.
V. LCD MODULE
IV EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
D. Location tracing through Google Maps The hardware has the following units such as
Arduino UNO, MEMS accelerometer, GPS/GSM
Here the link of the co-ordinates received can be module, power supply and LCD display.
clearly viewed through google maps. This is shown
in fig 7. VI CONCLUSION