IoT-Enabled Smart Bike Helmet with an AI-Driven Collision Avoidance System

Abstract

This paper presents a system design for a smart bike helmet with multiple safety features that are intended to empower bicycle riders to proactively avoid potential sources of danger or injury. A Smart Sensor/Actuator Node (SSAN), driven by an Arduino Uno single-board microcontroller, contains input sensors and actuators to provide riders the ability to send and receive warnings promptly on their helmet. A Vision Node, driven by an NVIDIA Jetson Nano and a cable pin-connected camera, executes AI object detection algorithms for any dangerous objects that are out of sight of the rider and sends alerts to the SSAN as needed. By combining safety features of the SSAN and Vision Node while continuously sending data to an IoT-enabled backend web server, the safety operation of a typical bike ride can be substantially improved.