Driver’s Health and Body Movement Monitoring System for Early Accident Detection

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to save people from accident. Approximately 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day [1]. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that drowsy and careless driving is the cause of an estimated 40,000 injuries and 1550 deaths in car crashes every year in U.S. [2]. Over 90% of all road fatalities occur in low and middle-income countries, which have less than half of the world's vehicles [1]. Following the report of NCPSRR (The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways) 4,284 people were killed and 9,112 others injured in 3,472 road accidents across Bangladesh in 2017 [3]. Road accident is one of the major problems and the number of accident is increasing day by day. Many of these deaths could be avoided if driver drowsiness and carelessness could be properly monitored and drivers are given early warnings. That is why we are making this project so that we can reduce the number of accidents and save few lives. We collected 14 years data of accidents in Bangladesh and then we analyzed it and found a pattern of the accident. And then we build two devices. One device will monitor the physical condition of the driver and another device will monitor the head movement of the driver. The system will keep monitoring the driver’s condition. If the driver loses his focus from the road or driving, the system will alert and help to get back him focused on the road. The system is carefully designed for low-power consumption and the cost of the device is also low.