IMilePost: Embedded Solution for Dangerous Road Situation Warnings

Safety is an important aspect of transportation systems for both, the drivers and pedestrians. Significant part of road accidents are related to driver inability to react in time on sudden hazardous situations, such as pedestrians or wild animals on the road, a car stopped in case of emergency, or a slippery pavement segment. In this paper we propose an embedded system for driver visual notification in case of a hazard. The system can be unobtrusively added to existing road infrastructure, it is solar-powered and can function autonomously without human intervention. The evaluation shows, that proposed solution is able to detect several types of hazardous situations and report them to drivers.