The design of intelligent auto accident alarm system

Abstract

Road accidents are one of the major causes of mortality around the world and over 1,300,000 people are killed annually in the road accidents. Most of fatal accidents occur on the roads outside the city. Some of the casualties are killed in the crash moment and the others after the accident, mostly due to late arrival of rescue groups. The late arrival of rescue groups is mostly because of the lack of rapid and timely notice from accident. For this reason, this paper proposes the employment of location-based service to develop a system that can be used easily to locate an accident more quickly and inform emergency service to accelerate the transfer of victims to medical centers. This system is composed of two parts. The first part of the system is activated when something hits the impact sensors embedded in the vehicle and then it captures the location of vehicle via GPS. Employing GSM, the first part of the system sends an SMS which contains the location and other necessary information of vehicle to the second part of system which is situated in the emergency center. After the SMS is delivered, the system is able to locate the accident on the map and dispatch the rescue groups to the place of accident. © Gi4DM 2011 - GeoInformation for Disaster Management.All right reserved.