Abstract

The vehicles have become an absolute necessity in our daily life and with the rapid growth in population, the number of vehicles on the road has also increased. This in turn increases the number of road accidents causing a high loss of lives. One of the main reasons for more than half of the deaths due to accidents is the delay in receiving medical assistance on time. If immediate medical assistance is provided to the accident victims, then their chances of survival may increase. Nowadays, manufacturing companies are designing many accident prevention systems aiming to the reduction of the accidents or lessening its impact. But they still lack the facility of communicating with the emergency services if the vehicle is met with an accident. This paper proposes FlashRescue, a system that addresses these issues by equipping the vehicle with the technology of automatic accident detection and immediate notification to the emergency care services. It is developed using a camera, a GPS receiver, MPU 6050 accelerometer-gyroscope module all integrated with the Raspberry Pi. The system detects the accident using the sensors like accelerometer and gyroscope, finds total number of passengers, gets the location of the accident spot and informs the hospital and police station available nearest to the site of the accident using Google APIs and Twilio APIs. A testbed implementation and experimentation of FlasRescue shows that the system works without human intervention, is user friendly, compact and cost-efficient.