ABSTRACT
Road accidents are one of the major causes of death in India, and this death rate is increasing every year. Not all accident victims lose their lives on the spot; some victims die due to delayed response times from rescue teams. Hence the main aim of this chapter is to devise a method to minimize the lives lost every year due to road accidents. In current systems, the people who are present at the site of an accident are responsible for informing the hospital about the accident so that an ambulance can be sent to save the victims. But the situation is critical since the time needed to rescue a seriously-injured person is precious.
To improve the current situation, the system developed in this work can be installed in vehicles. It is capable of detecting an accident, acquiring the location of the accident, and informing the control center about the accident and its location. It can also send real-time information about the patient once the ambulance arrives at the accident site, and the victim is transferred to the ambulance. The vibration sensor detects the accident, GPS acquires the location, and this location will be shared through the GSM module. Since prevention 162is better than cure, this system includes a gas sensor which is used to detect the presence of alcohol (in the case of drunk driving). If alcohol is detected, the vehicle’s engine will be turned off. The system includes a manual switch, which is to be pressed by the accident victim if the accident is not severe, and, hence, the victim does not require a rescue team. If the victim does not press the manual switch, the accident location will be sent to the control center. The nearest hospital, with respect to the shared location of the accident, will be contacted and an ambulance can be dispatched to the site of the accident. After reaching the location of the accident, the ambulance can transmit real-time information about the patient to the hospital, like the patient’s heart rate. To reduce the delay of ambulances en route to the hospital, a zero-traffic system is implemented by transmitting the RF signal to the traffic signal controller.
