Abstract

Smart helmets as a subsequent step to human safety, are one of the great challenges in the area of active safety for two wheelers. With the proliferation of two wheeler road accidents, in India the total annual deaths has crossed 1.98 lac, according to the report of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Through our project we aim to mitigate the probability of the deaths caused in two wheeler accidents. In this project, we proposed a WSN based solution which restricts the driver to wear helmet while riding a two wheeler. Unlike the current solutions i.e. the expensive smart helmets that use high level Artificial Intelligence and also rely on heavy infrastructure, in our vehicular safety solution only tiny low cost sensor are deployed, which will be used to detect the presence of helmet on the rider’s head. The communication between the sensors and vehicle will be achieved using Bluetooth connectivity and through a simulator called Arduino. For pairing the correct helmet, authentication will be done using NFC tags. It can also serve as an alternative solution for unsophisticated vehicles that are not equipped with onboard computers and cannot take advantage of the current Intelligent Transportation System and Services. To illustrate the basic idea of our system, we primarily focus on authenticating the helmet in order to start the vehicle.