Asian Journal of Engineering and Technology Innovation

Accident Locator using GPS and GSM Technology

Ashish Manwatkar, Irfan Patil, Jayraj Tekale, Vinayak Kamble, Nikhil Gotur

Indira College of Engineering Pune

Abstract

 In a large country like India there are many kind of places like hilly area plateaus and due to improper road facilities accidents are more and death rate due to this accidents are more. India faces the highest number of accidents and accidental fatalities in the world. The most or max number of accidents are reported from the transport sector for example road as well as railways. Some approximations claim that Indian roads alone accounted for approximately 105,000 accidental fatalities in 2011. This is almost 15 percent of the global road fatalities when India has just 1 percent of the total global vehicles. The incidents of accidental deaths have shown increasing trend during the decade of 2000-2010 with an increase of 50 percent in the year 2010. Therefore to save lives and give immediate medical treatment to the victim we are designing an embedded system which is used for accident tracking and positioning of any vehicle by using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global system for mobile communication (GSM)

Keywords:

GPS (Global Positioning System), GSM (Global Service for Mobile Applications),SMS (Short Message Service), Micro controller.