Implementation Of Vehicle Collision Avoidance System By Tracking Using Wireless Technology

Abstract

The motorcycle accident is a major public problem in many countries, particularly Thailand. Despite awareness campaign, this problem is still increasing due to rider's poor behaviors such as speed driving, drunk driving, riding with no helmet protection, riding without sufficient sleep, etc. The numbers of death and disability are very high because of late assistance to people who got the accident. These cause huge social and economic burdens to people involved. However, good safety device for motorcycle is difficult to implement and very expensive. Alternatively, intelligence schemes such as fall or incident detection with tracking system have also recently been devised to notify the accident to related people so that quickest assistance can reach people who got the accident. Presently, tracking system is only installed in some high end motorcycles because these systems are still too expensive for most motorcycle's riders [5-6]. Thus, fall detection and accident alarm system for motorcycle has recently gained attention because these systems are expected to save life by helping riders to get medical treatment on time. In this work, wireless black box using MEMS accelerometer and GPS tracking system is developed for accidental monitoring.