This Helmet Not Only Saves Your Life But also Doesn’t Allow You to Ride Drunk?
Mangaluru: Nowadays we have seen many road accident and drunken driving cases in our day to day life, especially for two wheelers riders. And the main reason behind this is not wearing helmet. Many people could save their life in accident cases if they were wearing the helmet at the time of accident. So to avoid these accidents a helmet is designed which consists of a limit switch and an MQ3 gas sensor. This project is undertaken to ensure road safety among two-wheeler riders.
It consists of an RF transmitter, RF receiver, Encoder and Decoder IC. The bike will not start if the rider is not wearing the helmet and it also does not get started if the rider consumed alcohol. When the rider wears the helmet an RF signal is transmitted which is received at the receiver end consisting of RF module receiver in the bike engine which ensures that the rider is wearing the helmet and also about the alcohol consumption by the rider. If any of the conditions are false, then the bike will not get started.
In today’s modern life, the craze of motorbikes is increasing in a day to day life. The craze of bike among youngsters is increasing day-by-day, especially among college going students. The different sports bikes are introduced by many companies in today’s competitive environment. The bikes are increasing on roads heavily, and due to this traffic on the roads is increased. And also the road mishaps are increased day by day, due to which many deaths occur, most of them are caused due to common negligence of not wearing helmet.
This motivated a group of students, namely Amal Varghese, Ajith Paul, Antony K Prince, GT Aswin and Arun K Babu, all class 11 students of St. George Higher Secondary School, Kochi in making a system which ensures the safety of bikers, by making it necessary to wear helmet and no consumption of alcohol as per government guidelines. And they say that their smart helmet can reduce number of road accidents. The project aims at the security and safety of bikers, against road accidents. Refusal to use of proper motorcycle helmets is a main factor contributing to the death from road crashes. The circuit is so designed that the bike won’t start without wearing helmet. The helmet described here once installed with any of the bikes forces the rider to wear it while riding, so whether there is any law or not biker will have to wear the helmet ensuring his/her own safety.
This smart helmet, which was showcased at the Bengaluru Civic Fest at Freedom Park on Thursday, 14 February is embedded with sensors that are linked to the two-wheeler’s engine and speedometer and sends out alerts when the rider is drunk or violates traffic rules. The helmet comes with two modules i.e. one receiver and one transmitter. The transmitter being embedded in the helmet, and the receiver module can be installed on any bike. At the transmitter end, the helmet consists of a limit switch and a gas sensor.
The helmet also beeps when the rider does not wear it properly and has a distress alarm system which sends automatic alerts to nearest police stations and hospitals in case the two-wheeler is involved in accidents. Amal speaking to media had said they are working on installing a GPS. The students had been working on the helmet in their laboratory since last July, but the Kerala floods affected their project. “Our houses were flooded and we had to stop our work for one-and-half months. We are hoping to complete it by April. Police in Kerala have encouraged us and shared our prototype video on their Facebook page, which received much appreciation,” said Arun speaking to reporters
With inputs from TOI