Smart System to Avoid Car Accidents
Date
2020-12-17
Authors
Saffarini, Muhammed
Saffarini, Rasha
Ishaq, Isam
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Publisher
IEEE
Abstract
Car accidents have different reasons, they are either
caused by external (outside the car) or internal factors (inside
the car). Accidents due to external reasons occur because of
environmental reasons such as obstructed vision of the driver due
to fog or bad road conditions. Internal factors include decreased
amount of Oxygen, and in turn increase the amount of carbon
dioxide, driver sleep, humidity and temperature ratio between
outside and inside the car, which cause condensation on the front
windshield which limits the vision of the driver. To avoid car
accidents, one should minimize both external as well as internal
accident reasons. In this paper, a system consisting of two parts is
proposed to monitor the external and internal driving conditions.
The first one focuses on external accident conditions, which
monitors the road and notifies the driver about any problem
in front of him and take action to avoid it, by reducing their
speed, increase the lights of the car, or by using smart bumps
that come out when needed (the risk of sliding for example) to
enforce the driver to drive slowly and carefully. These smart
bumps are needed also when the sensors detect that the driver
feels sleepy. Activating them will reduce the probability of an
accident. Additionally, if the humidity and temperature of the
environments increased over a specified range, fans are activated
to cool down the temperature inside the car. The other system
works inside the car. If the air conditions pose a danger on
the driver (the temperature, or CO2 increased for example), the
system takes an action by starting the air condition or opening the
windows to balance the temperature or CO2 ratios. The system
will be applied by using sensors to measure factors inside and
outside the car, which in turn tells the cars what to do by the
interaction between both systems via the internet.
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Keywords
IoT , Computer Vision , Sleepy Driver , Smart Car System , Smart Road System , Raspberry PI , Arduino