Vehicle and passenger protection through cooperative sensor based vehicular networking

Abstract

India has vast diversity of flora and fauna, as it is a sub-continent therefore surrounded by mountains, seas, forest etc. Due to this India faces a variation in weather patterns across different places. As India is doing good in enhancing its economy due to which it has raised the living standards of people in India, so most of the people prefer to travel through their car and not by public transport. This has increased the chances of road accidents, jams and traffic imbalance. Along with this, as cars are the closed cabinet which traps air and not allows fresh air to get inside on excessive usage of AC and blower. It makes car environment suffocating due unburnt hydrocarbons and release of harmful gases from AC and blower. This leads to death when trapped inside the car for longer duration, as in state of suffocation mental power retards. There are instances of brake fail that increases the car speed or sudden fire that increases car temperature, leads to threatening situations. Our project is a solution to these problems; we are monitoring the real-time environment conditions through different sensors and updating it to user on an android app with environment specific action taking notification. If at a point, when person does not take any action after getting notification an auto generated message is also be sent to important people or nearby hospital and police station by the help of GPS and GSM technologies. Along with this by the help of vehicular networking, we are also passing on the information to other vehicles on-board to update them with traffic details to avoid accidents (GPS to calculate speed level of different cars). This will also help when any other car passengers are in emergency and need urgent help in case of sudden fire or brake fail etc. We have checked the performance of the prototype by testing it on the testbed located in NIIT University, Neemrana.