A Collection of Contemporary Research Articles in Electronics, Communication & Computation- Book ISBN- 978-81-948050-7-6

Authors: Mrutyunjay Rout, Kilaru Sai Venkata Raaman, Cheerla Ganesh

Abstract: The Vehicle Tracking and Accident Alert system uses GPS and GSM electronic modules to track and send the location information to the vehicle over a mobile phone. It also sends alerts via messages to emergency contacts, Ambulance and police with a detailed location of the accident that occurred on Google map. This system can detect three types of accidents. They are accidents due to external impact on the vehicle, accidents due to the toppling of the vehicle and accidents due to unexpected fires. This project provides real time updates of the vehicle location by sending an SMS of the coordinates through the GSM module. This SMS contains the latitude and longitude of the vehicle coordinates. We are using the Vibration sensor, Accelerometer and Fire sensor is for Accident detection. If an accident occurs, the latitude and longitude of the vehicle are retrieved by Arduino with the help of a GPS module, and then it sends this information to the user in Text SMS using the GSM module. The pre-programmed contacts will receive a text SMS.

Keywords: Vehicle Tracking; Accident Alerts; GPS module; GSM SIM900A module; Vibration sensor (SW-420); Fire Sensor; Accelerometer(ADXL335).