Collision and overturning detection and alerting system in public vehicles

Abstract

Road transport is the most used type of transport in Uganda where the majority use public means like buses, taxis among others. Security in travelling is a primary concern for everyone. Rising demand for automobile has increased the traffic, thereby causing more accidents on the road. People often lose their lives because of poor emergency facilities in the case of delayed or unattended accidents. Predicting of the accidents taking place on the roads is not possible but at least the after effects can be minimized. The proposed system ensures making emergency facilities available to accident victims as early as possible by letting the police and the vehicle office headquarters know the accident spot with the help of this system embedded in the vehicle. Sensors are attached to the microcontroller. In case there is a collision or over turning is detection with the help of adxl335 accelerometer and vibration sensor, the location of the vehicle is got with the help of a GPS and an SMS with containing the location of the vehicle in form of a google map link is sent to the Police and headquarter offices of the vehicle.