VADet: An Arduino based automated vehicle accident detection and messaging system

With the advancement of technology and rapid overpopulation, people are constantly trying to ease their daily life by adapting with newer technology. Transport is one of the daily amenities for us to depend on, yet not sufficient enough for the growing population. This is one of the common issues which people try to solve with vehicle purchasing. The increasing amount of vehicles create mismanagement in controlling traffic leading to accidents. Although accidents happen due to various factors other than traffic management, such as unstable weather, reckless driving, faulty vehicles or maybe road conditions. But the most important part after an accident is to detect the accident and take immediate action upon detection. Bangladesh has registered a significant increase, 19.58%, in road accidents in 2018 compared to 2017 and 3,472 accidents in 2017, where there were 4,317 deaths in 2018. All this time we overlooked the fact that immediate aid to an accident scene can reduce the number of people getting traumatized, disabled or lose their precious lives due to lack of emergency facilities. Also, delayed action can lead to criminal activity of the accident doer as the person gets enough time to flee from the scene. We built this system to solve these issues by detecting and confirming the accident using the MPU6050 module, and notifying the proper authorities by sending the location of the incident using SIM808 module.