Accident Detection and Road Condition Monitoring Using Blackbox Module

Road accidents have always been a major cause of mass fatalities all over the world specially in Bangladesh, where the conditions of the roads and the whole traffic infrastructure in general are less than ideal, and collisions in roads tend to occur more often. The influx in road accidents over the past few years has led the researchers to analyze the cause of the accident. In this regard, a smart system integrating recorded information like velocity, acceleration, rotation, position of the vehicle can play a significant role in detecting the occurrence of the accident and can send prompt alerts to first responders. This study aims to introduce an approach with a ‘Blackbox’ module that serves two purposes simultaneously to reduce the number of accidents. The mentioned module equipped with different sensors can record important parameters of road as well as the overall condition of the road while simultaneously being capable of properly detecting the occurrence of a road collision. The ‘BlackBox’ module can map and record the data of a certain road’s condition which can be matched with the available accident data of that particular location saved on a database. Based on the data, alert can be provided to the concerned for accident prone locations. In this way, the number of road conditions taking place each year can be reduced up to 80%.