Accident Alert System Using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Road accidents are grooming in India day-by-day. Over speeding, poor quality of roads, insufficiency in light etc. are the highlighted reasons for this. These reasons eventually lead to the loss of life. Studies shows that approximately 1.3 lakhs of lives were fallen on roads every year. Among this figure, a considerable percent is due to the delay in getting the patient right treatment. Accident alert system using Raspberry Pi is an automatic accident detection device which alerts the closest hospitals in the accident spot without any human aid. The accelerometer senses the shock exerted on the vehicles and the measured value is given to the Pi, where a threshold voltage value is set. When the measured value is greater than the threshold, it is considered as a major accident and the camera gets on and pictures of the vehicle’s interior are taken. GPS continuously takes the location details. Both pictures and location details are stored on the server, which is sent as an e-mail to the registered mail IDs.

Keywords: global positioning system (GPS), accelerometer, Raspberry Pi (Python language), server, e-mail to the hospitals

Cite this Article: Dinesh U. V., Jijo Johnson, Sreesankar S, Vipin Augustine, Priya Thomas, Eugene Peter. Accident Alert System using Raspberry Pi. International Journal of Information Security and Software Engineering. 2019; 5(2): 1–23p.