Construction of Black Box to Detect the Location of Road Mishap in Remote Area in the IoT Domain

Abstract

In recent years, both developed and developing countries have witnessed an increase in the number of traffic accidents. Aside from a significant rise in the overall number of on-road commercial and non-commercial vehicles, advancements in transportation infrastructure and on-road technologies may result in road accidents, which generally result in high mortality. More than half of these fatalities are the result of delayed response by medical and rescue personnel. If an accident site receives quick medical treatment, an accident victim's chances of survival may improve considerably. Based on the IoT-based multiple-level vehicle environment, this study proposes a low-cost accident detection and alarm system. Vehicles are equipped with a "Black Box" board unit and an accident location identification module for the Global Positioning System (GPS), in addition to mechanical sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope) for accurate accident detection. This study has evaluated the proposed system with average packet delivery ratio (PDR) vs. relay nodes. Our simulation results have evaluated the evolution of relay nodes in the mobile / sensor node through internet gateway. It has also been demonstrated that the packet delivery ratio is inversely related to the incremental number of relay nodes.