Black Box: An Emergency Rescue

Dispatch System

Aim
The aim of this project is to design a system for emergency
rescue services in the event of a road accident.

Introduction
Life is priceless and we should be doing whatever
possible to make roads safer. The project focuses on
building an infrastructure which vehicle safety
authorities can implement to enhance the reporting of
vehicle crashes, provide post-crash analysis using
accident sensors, record of the event in images and
reduce the time it takes for emergency rescue to
arrive at the crash location.

Existing System
This related work has conceptualized to monitor the
GPS Speed data from the vehicle satellite navigation
system to trigger an accident event if the speed is
below a specified speed and send that data using
GSM network. The concept only depends on Speed.
Many production vehicles on the road such as
Porsche Car Connect System utilizes built in systems
to monitor the airbag as a trigger to send a crash
notification to an emergency service. Such system is
usually available only as an optional extra and is not
available on more general road cars.

Proposed system

Our approach is to design an Emergency Rescue Dispatch

System, in which we can report the accident information (i.e.)
GPS locations to the user. An addition to this will send some
images when abnormal vibration occurs. It will become more
available information for the monitoring unit about the
accident.

Functional Block Diagram

Gas
Sensors

Temp
Sensors

LPC2148
A
D
C

U
A
R
T

Vibration
Sensors

POWER
SUPPLY

GPS

Raspberry pi

Controller 2

USB
Raspberry Pi

From
Controller 1

U
A
R
T
1

U
A
R
T
2

MMS
modem

Block Diagram Description

In our system Vibration sensor, Temperature sensor and Gas
sensor connected with the ADC of ARM7. If any abnormal
condition occurs, it will receive the GPS location and transmit
it to the raspberry pi. An USB Camera is connected with the
USB port of the Raspberry pi. This camera continuously
captures the images for each 2 seconds and stores those
images in the external memory device mounted on the
raspberry pi. And an MMS modem is connected with the
UART of raspberry pi. Raspberry pi receives the GPS coordinates and immediately reacts that it will send those
information and the JPEG images, via an MMS modem, which
are captured just before 4 second and after 4 seconds of the
abnormal occurrence. So that an authorized user can know the
information.

System Requirement

Language

Embedded C

Compiler
OS
XP.

:
:

GCC, Keil IDE

Linux (embuntu), windows

Hardware Requirement

Raspberry pi
ARM 7 (LPC2148)
Vibration sensor
Temperature
Gas sensor
GPS modem
USB camera
MMS modem