Accident alert System

Inspiration

    We wanted to build a system that would support All-State and other insurance agencies for better customer experience and reduce their expenses by minimizing the wage for investigating agents.

What it does

   Our vehicle has an accelerometer that tracks the acceleration of the vehicle which finds the situation of an accident and sends the warning mail to them as well as their parents.

How we built it

  We started off with the use of 3 axes digital accelerometer that transmits data using I2C protocol. Using the Arduino IDE we analyzed the data for the De-acceleration of the car and sent the data to raspberry pi for further processing using serial data transfer protocol. Using the SMTP protocol with the support of Google server for email services we sent real-time data(A emergency text with a real-time picture and video clip from the module to the stored email addresses)We used python, C++, shell script and lots of research about libraries.

Challenges we ran into

  1. Issue with Arduino.
  2. We broke our motor so, we couldn't use it in the vehicle.
  3. Integration with the camera.
  4. Our camera's wire tore up at last hour.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

 It worked at last with an excellent result.
 We were successful in managing the sensor and the data base collected by the it.
 We were successful in sending email alert to the users and their parents.

What we learned

Implementation of python in the real world.
Use of Arduino to set the sensitivity of the sensor.

What's next for Accident alert System

We can use I cloud and Google drive to store our pictures and video captured by the camera during the accident.

Built With

Submitted to

HackUTA Fall 2018

Created by

I started off with managing the accelerometer and combining wires as well as did coding for setting the sensitivity of the accelerometer. Apart from that, I fully worked on sending alert warning via email using simple main transfer protocol(SMTP) server and various libraries of python to make it work.

Sujan Pandey
I worked in the integration of accelerometer, arduino and raspberry pi using various communication protocol like I2C and serial. I coded in C++/C ,python and wrote shell scripts and also integrated various libraries in the for both arduino and python environment. I also contributed in the debugging part by doing a thorough debug which took a heck lot of time. Had lots of fun by the way. Felt like a real hacker.

alvinpsh
I dealt with sending emails using SMTP, TLS, host addresses and ports using Python in raspberry pi 3. I also helped to build physical appearance and structure of the Tracking system dealing with some sensor and USB camera.

PuspaRaj Thapaliya

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Sujan Pandey started this project — Oct 07, 2018 12:50 PM EDT

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PuspaRaj Thapaliya posted an update — Oct 07, 2018 12:42 PM EDT

We have built a system for tracking the various condition of a car and sending the information remotely. Basically, it is like a black-box of an aero-plane which is used for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of accidents and incidents. Using raspberry pi, arduino with shield , accelerometer , an usb camera and python.

When your car gets crashed, the accelerometer value changes by high number. This situation alerts the system to take pictures and videos which are then send to customer and customer's emergency contacts by the insurance company. I hope this system helps the insurance company to provide better customer experiences.

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