Accident Detection and Reporting System using GPS, GPRS and GSM Technology
Md. Syedul Amin, Jubayer Jalil
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 UKM, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
M. B. I. Reaz
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 UKM, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia email: mamun.reaz@gmail.com
Abstract— Speed is one of the basic reasons for vehicle accident. Many lives could have been saved if emergency service could get accident information and reach in time. Nowadays, GPS has become an integral part of a vehicle system. This paper proposes to utilize the capability of a GPS receiver to monitor speed of a vehicle and detect accident basing on monitored speed and send accident location to an Alert Service Center. The GPS will monitor speed of a vehicle and compare with the previous speed in every second through a Microcontroller Unit. Whenever the speed will be below the specified speed, it will assume that an accident has occurred. The system will then send the accident location acquired from the GPS along with the time and the speed by utilizing the GSM network. This will help to reach the rescue service in time and save the valuable human life. Keywords-accident monitoring, GPS, accident detection, GPRS, GSM.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a popular technology which was developed by American Department of Defense (DoD) for military use. Later on it was available for civilian use. It is utilized for wide range of applications such as location, direction, speed, timing, surveying, logistics, traffic management, security etc. Nowadays, it has become an integral part of a vehicle system for tracking and navigation system. It can provide accurate time, location coordinate and speed. On the other hand, Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is a digital mobile