Vehicle’s Big Brother: IoT-Based Monitoring System for In-car Safety

To ensure safety in transportation means, several monitoring systems have been proposed to be used in private and public vehicles. In this work, we demonstrate our effort toward building monitoring systems for buckling up seat belts and for keeping the incar air quality in check. Our proposed system, named Vehicle’s Big Brother, is a car safety prototype that is built using sensor devices that communicate with and are controlled by a smartphone in the hand of the driver. This system sends warning notifications to the driver in case one of the seat belts is not fastened. It also gives the driver information about the quality of the air inside the vehicle in terms of the temperature and the concentration of the dust. This working prototype supports four seats, and it can be extended to cover larger vehicles such as public transportation means. The preliminary evaluation results for this system show high acceptance by its testers.