Development of a Real Time Road Accident Location and Emergency Alert System
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The fatality rate as a result of road accidents will be greatly
reduced if the relevant response agencies are alerted as soon
as these accidents occur and also given the location of these
accidents. Interstate trips often include several hours of
continuous driving on long and lonely roads and often times,
accidents are only responded to by other road users who are
not equipped to provide the required emergency assistance.
This is further compounded by trips undertaken during the
night as the number of other road users is much fewer and the
chances of any other road user stopping to offer assistance to
the accident victims is almost nonexistent. This work presents
the design and development of a system to be installed in the
car for generating automatic alerts in the event of a road
accident. The system is designed to automatically transmit the
GPS location of the vehicle to the controller station in the
event of an accident. The controller collates this information
and transfers the location, date, the phone number and other
details of the registered uses to the emergency response teams.
To facilitate a rapid response, the city is grouped into cells
with dedicated emergency response teams and trauma
hospitals for each cell. The controller sends the accident alerts to the emergency response teams and the trauma hospitals
covering that area. In the event that the ambulance is
unavailable, the ambulance of the nearest cell receives the
message and moves to locate the accident victims. This
system provides an opportunity to minimize the fatalities of
road transport accidents due to the late deployment of
emergency response teams and lack of information on the
accident location.
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T Technology (General), TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering