An Automatic Accident Detection System: A Hybrid Solution

Over the past few decades, the world has undergone rapid progress in the fields of technology as well as the transportation system. Moving vehicles are not just modernized and efficient but unfortunately cause the number of causalities in road accidents. Unidentified crashes and late rescue create more edgy situation, particularly on unpopulated highways. To lessen accidental mortality rate, a permissible low-cost automatic accident detection system is proposed that automatically detects the crash and sends notification through Short Message Service (SMS) to the emergency services and concerned family member with precise location. The proposed system consists of hardware and software modules. The hardware module is based on the Arduino board with vibration sensor and accelerometer is deployed in vehicle whereas the software part is an Android application that is installed on users mobile. The experimental results indicate that the presented system functions well as intended.