Black Box: An emergency rescue dispatch system for road vehicles for instant notification of road accidents and post crash analysis

Our research has been targeted towards building an integrated system for emergency rescue services in the event of a road accident. The project focuses on building an infrastructure which vehicle safety authorities can implement to enhance the reporting of vehicle crashes, provide post-crash analysis using motion sensors, record of the event in images and reduce the time it takes for emergency rescue to arrive at the crash location. We have achieved this using existing cellular network infrastructure already in place and also using GPS to pinpoint the exact location of the crash and send that data to an emergency rescue authority (such as Hospital, Fire Department, Police) using GSM text service. Our target was to build a low cost device that everyone can afford and use in their vehicles.