Abstract:
Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of fatalities in the world. An important indicator of survival rates after an accident is the time between the accident and when emergency medical personnel are dispatched to the scene. One approach to eliminating the delay between accident occurrence and first responder dispatch is to use in-vehicle automatic accident detection and notifications systems which senses when traffic accident occur and immediately notify emergency personnel. These in-vehicle systems, however, are not available in all cars and are expensive to retrofit for older vehicles. The problem is that no such system in place for locating or identifying where and when accident is taking place and responding to the ones in charge of road accident emergencies. The time by which police and emergency medical team approaches to accidental place, by that time usually many lives are lost because the time taken by information to approach rescue teams are more enough. Therefore the main objective of the project is to come up with a system that could report the accident, give the actual location of the accident area and respond to emergency responder’s in short time. This project therefore introduces the usage of automatic accident detection and notification systems such as use of mobile phones example smart phones that can be used to indirectly report accidents through the sensors such as GPS and other developed related applications. We are also developing and implementing the combination of the technologies such as GPS/GSM in order to come up with an overall solution of giving a rescue to injuries from road accidents i
