Accidents Detection and Prevention System to reduce Traffic Hazards using IR Sensors

Traffic Hazards is one of the major problems facing across the world. One of the major causes of traffic hazards is increase in vehicles and dense population. Reducing traffic hazards is one the major challenges as majority of the deaths across the world are due to road accidents. Hence there is a need to provide better transportation facilities that can reduce the ratio of road accidents and save life's of people. One of the solution that is proposed in this paper is using IR sensors and Arduino Uno technology. The system has two phases-Accident Detection and Accident Prevention. The detection phase is carried out using IR sensors that could detect and alert the people by sending SMS using GSM module that contains predefined numbers and accident location using GPS module. Second Phase, Accident prevention is carried out using IR sensors by warning the driver about the neighboring vehicles when the distance between them is beyond the threshold value. Simulation results and Prototype is presented in this paper.