Mobile Application for Automatic Accident Detection and Multimodal Alert

Author

Fernandes, Bruno ; Gomes, Vitor ; Ferreira, Joaquim ; Oliveira, Arnaldo

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Univ. de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

fYear

2015

fDate

11-14 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents HDy Copilot, an Android application for accident detection integrated with multimodal alert dissemination, both via eCall and IEEE 802.11p. The proposed accident detection algorithm receives inputs from the vehicle, via ODB-II, and from the smartphone sensors, namely the accelerometer, the magnetometer and the gyroscope. The Android smartphone is also used as human machine interface, so that the driver can configure the application, receive road hazard warnings issued by other vehicles in the vicinity and cancel countdown procedures upon false accident detection. A prototype implementation was validated via laboratory tests.

Keywords

accelerometers; gyroscopes; hazards; magnetometers; man-machine systems; mobile computing; road accidents; road traffic; road vehicles; smart phones; traffic engineering computing; wireless LAN; Android application; Android smartphone; HDy Copilot; IEEE 802.11p; ODB-II; accelerometer; accident detection algorithm; automatic accident detection; eCall; gyroscope; human machine interface; magnetometer; mobile application; multimodal alert dissemination; road hazard warnings; smartphone sensors; Accidents; Androids; Humanoid robots; Roads; Sensors; Universal Serial Bus; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2015 IEEE 81st

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCSpring.2015.7145935

Filename

7145935