Abstract
An accident is an unexpected, unintended, and unusual external action that occurs at particular place and time which leads to a marked effect on human life. Most of the countries have rules for motorcycle users to wear a helmet for their safety purpose where the rate of two-wheeler accidents increasing day by day. Smart helmet automatically checks whether a person has undergone any accident and sends messages to the emergency numbers. This system finds the impact with which the head hits the ground when an accident occurs. It makes use of a low power MSP430 processor which receives the analog value from the piezoelectric disk sensor based on the impact of helmet and compares with critical value. Once the critical value is obtained, GSM transmits a message to emergency numbers. As an additional feature, there is a temperature sensor which senses temperature in helmet and checks the temperature at every instant based on the variations of temperature in helmet control cooling system when temperature is high.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Cho MH, Lee CH (2010) A low-power real-time operating system for ARC (actual remote control) wearable device. IEEE Trans Consum Electron 56(3)
Vijayan S, Govind VT, Mathews M, Surendran S, ME MS (2014) Alcohol detection using smart helmet system, vol 8. Issue 1. ISSN: 0976-1353
Chverton J (2011) Helmet presence classification with motorcycle detection and tracking. IET Intell Transp Syst 6 (3)
Rasli MKAM, Madzhi NK, Johari J (2013) Smart helmet with sensors for accident prevention. In: International conference on electrical, electronics and system engineering
Manjesh N, Sudarshan Raju CH. Safety measures for Two wheelers by smart helmet and four wheelers by vehicular communication. In: National conference on developments, advances and trends in engineering sciences and Int J Eng Res Appl (IJERA). ISSN: 2248-9622
Thakre K, Waskar P, Sawant P (2015) Smart helmet. Int J Adv Res Comput Sci Softw Eng 5(2)
Bhandari D, Solanki D. i-bike—a smarter way to safeguard bikers. www.Academia.edu
Das A, Das P (2014) Smart helmet for Indian bikers. Int J Adv Sci Eng Technol 2(4)
http://extremeelectronics.co.in/datasheets/gsm_shield_sim900a.pdf
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my project guide Prof. K.Venkatasubramanian for sharing expertise, sincere, and valuable guidance and encouragement extended to me. I would also thank the anonymous reviews for their comments for improving the paper and I also extend my gratitude to VIT University, Chennai, for their support.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Indupuru, Y., Venkatasubramanian, K., Umamaheswari, V. (2018). Design and Implementation of Smart Helmet Using Low Power MSP430 Platform. In: Thalmann, D., Subhashini, N., Mohanaprasad, K., Murugan, M. (eds) Intelligent Embedded Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 492. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8575-8_22
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8575-8_22
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-8574-1
Online ISBN: 978-981-10-8575-8
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)