Smart helmet operated ignition and emergency alert system for bike

Project Title

Smart helmet operated ignition and emergency alert system for bike

Project Area of Specialization Internet of ThingsProject Summary

The use of motorbike in this part of the world is increasing day by day, as it is easy for travelers to reach the destination and at the same time very economical. However, the occurrences of accidents using motorbike is also increasing and can cause serious damage or even deaths. The use of helmet is necessary while traveling on this vehicle but in this part of the world, mostly people ignore the use of helmet. Around 65% of the riders do not use helmet that cause major damage in case of accidents. Keeping in view the social responsibility, we got motivation and proposed the idea of smart helmet. The main goal of developing smart helmet is to inform the family members, relatives or friend through alert messages. The system consists of two circuits, one should be placed inside the helmet and the second on bike. Both will be connected with each other wirelessly. The helmet circuit will continuously check, if helmet is put ON or put OFF. On the basis of which it will pass a signal to the bike to make a decision that weather the rider is allowed to ride or not.

If the helmet is put then the system will activate the finger print scanner, the rider will scan his finger and the bike will be started. If bike is started and then the rider put OFF the helmet, the system will be able to detect that rider has put OFF the helmet and will switch OFF the engine. The system waits for a few seconds to put on the helmet otherwise the engine will be OFF. The system is also designed to deal with the situation if accident occurs, in such case the location information will be shared with the near ones through SMS.

Project Objectives

1. To improve the safety of motorcyclists by ensuring the use of smart helmet.
2. To minimize the occurrences of major injuries and deaths.
3. To reduce the bike theft rate.

Project Implementation Method

First step of implementation:

First of all a limit switch will be interfaced with arduino and that switch will placed inside the helmet for the checking that, if the helmet is put on or put off.

Arduino will read the signal from switch, it has nothing more to do just to pass this signal to raspberry pi through RF transmitter. This implantation is in arduino so here Arduino C programming language will be used.

Second step of implementation:

In this step I have to receive the transmitted signal, for that I will interface RF receiver with raspberry pi on bike side circuit. I will store the received signal in a variable and will check using conditional statements, if the condition satisfies components of the bike will be activated.

This and the next all steps will be implanted in python programming language.

Third step of implementation:

As in this step finger print will be activated on the basis of previous step, so the rider will be asked to scan his finger, then after scanning it will check if match occur the bike will be started, if match don’t occur it will ask again the rider to scan the finger.

And if we want to add a new finger to the system, for that there buttons will be used.

• Press button 1 (if I want to add a new finger).
• Press button 2 (if I want to delete a finger).

Fourth step of implementation:

  In this step GSM and GPS module along with ADXL accelerometer will be interfaced with raspberry pi. The ADXL accelerometer will detect if accident occurred, then GPS will fetch the location and will be sent through GSM to relatives or friends.

I will also implement a function that the bike is located in case of theft. This function can be implemented by sending a request to the GPS for location. In response it will send its current location.

First programming languages and IDE’s that will be used for the implementation of this project.

1. Arduino C programming language and Arduino IDE. (for helmet side circuit)
2. Python programming language and Thonny python IDE  (Bike side circuit)omplete implementation methodology explanation through diagram.

Benefits of the Project

• This system encourage the use of helmet, which will minimize head injury in case of accident.
• In case of emergency on time treatment is necessary, an alert message along with location information will be shared, so that exact location can be shared and on-time treatment is done.
• Theft rate of bike will also be reduced.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The final deliverable of this project will be smart helmet system. A dedicated software will be developed which will be integrated with the hardware. The system has two major parts, helmet side and bike. Circuit will be installed on both side.

Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemCore Industry ITOther Industries Transportation , Health , Security Core Technology Internet of Things (IoT)Other Technologies Artificial Intelligence(AI)Sustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for People, Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	61600
Arduino uno	Equipment	2	1300	2600
Raspberry 4	Equipment	1	35000	35000
LCD Display	Equipment	2	800	1600
Finger print	Equipment	2	400	800
Bread board	Equipment	3	200	600
Buzzer	Equipment	2	200	400
Tilt	Equipment	3	200	600
GPS	Equipment	1	3000	3000
GSM	Equipment	1	1500	1500
Buttons	Equipment	5	200	1000
RF Module	Equipment	2	500	1000
Sensor	Equipment	5	500	2500
ADXL	Equipment	2	300	600
Jumper wires	Equipment	10	40	400
printing	Miscellaneous	5	800	4000
Stationary	Miscellaneous	10	400	4000
power supply	Equipment	2	1000	2000