Vehicle To Vehicle Communication for Mountainous Region

 If we gaze around the top dangerous roads in the whole world, they are mountainous roads. The top of them is Fairy Meadows road in Pakistan. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, about 2.69 percent of total Pakistanis die due to road accidents. Accidents in mountainous areas

Project Title

Vehicle To Vehicle Communication for Mountainous Region

Project Area of Specialization

Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Project Summary

 If we gaze around the top dangerous roads in the whole world, they are mountainous roads. The top of them is Fairy Meadows road in Pakistan. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, about 2.69 percent of total Pakistanis die due to road accidents. Accidents in mountainous areas are increasing day by day. For instance, when we surveyed our testbed 'Abbottabad' City, we realized that many people lost their lives in steep turns road accidents. On 29 April 2017, four people died, and 12 injured in a tragic accident when 22-wheeler struck with another vehicle going in the opposite direction. The accident took place in a mountainous turn referred to as 'Langra More’.

Pakistan has made significant progress in highways construction in recent years. Different cities are being interconnected now by the optimal routes. At the same time, Pakistan is facing challenges to overcome the accidents happening in mountainous roads. Thus, to ensure safety in steep curves is one of the important topics of research and engineering today.

 The motivation of this project is mainly to give a cost-effective solution to accident reduction in steep curves using the modern technology present today.In mountainous highways, most accidents result in fatal deaths. Furthermore, one can survey the highly risky roads which often face road accident situations, most of them are mountainous ranges. Most of the road accidents which occur in priorly mentioned highways are due to sharp turns and very low clearance. In these sorts of circumstances, the vehicle-drivers cannot see vehicles approaching from the opposite side. This issue increases the fatality rate in road accidents, which obviously causes loss of human life. The remedy for this issue is cautioning the driver about the vehicle originating from the opposite side.

Project Objectives

This project is aiming to achieve this objective by building a module that can detect vehicle position and speed, and it may provide this relevant information to the driver. Following are the three main objectives:

Fast V2V communication

Reliable V2V communication is highly required to prevent accidents in the narrow mountainous curves. The goal is to achieve communication between the two vehicles approaching the blind turn in that is when they are in non-line of sight. Based on V2V communication, it can be understood that how far is the approaching vehicle and with what speed the vehicles are approaching each other.

Cost-Effective System Design

Reducing manufacturing costs is one of the crucial aspects to consider. The module, along with reliability, must be easy to avail. Special attention towards mitigating the manufacturing cost helps in generating an optimal solution to a problem.

Desired Prevention System Independent of Internet

The availability of the internet in the mountainous area is not ensured. The desired system is required to operate even offline. One of the important goals is to have a working device ensuring safety in areas where the internet is limited. The elimination of dependency on the internet for fetching coordinates of a specific area from the satellite is one of the objectives.

Project Implementation Method

To begin this project, we  started working on Arduino mega 2560 on Proteus. The first thing we did was to include the Arduino mega 2560 by doing so we were able to start with the module on the screen. We had to connect this Arduino mega 2560 to Arduino LCD TFT shield to display for this purpose we have to used ILI9341 LCD display on Proteus. The next task was to know and study the pin configuration of both the modules as we were to connect these. We took anology from [1] as it  gave us the idea to connect Arduino UNO and ILI9341 Lcd display but  we had to use Arduino mega 2560 so we took anolgy form it and  connected ILI9341 LCD display with Arduino Mega 2560.

ILI9341 LCD Display:

ILI9341 is a 262,144-color single-chip SOC driver for a-TFT liquid crystal display with resolution of 240RGBx320 dots, comprising a 720-channel source driver, a 320-channel gate driver, 172,800 bytes GRAM for graphic display data of 240RGBx320 dots, and power supply circuit. ILI9341 supports parallel 8-/9-/16-/18-bit data bus MCU interface, 6-/16-/18-bit data bus RGB interface and 3-/4-line serial peripheral interface (SPI). The moving picture area can be specified in internal GRAM by window address function. The specified window area can be updated selectively, so that moving picture can be displayed simultaneously independent of still picture area. ILI9341 can operate with 1.65V ~ 3.3V I/O interface voltage and an incorporated voltage follower circuit to generate voltage levels for driving an LCD. ILI9341 supports full color, 8-color display mode and sleep mode for precise power control by software and these features make the ILI9341 an ideal LCD driver for medium or small size portable products such as digital cellular phones, smart phone, MP3 and PMP where long battery life is a major concern as mentioned in [2].

ILI9341 uses RES, CS, D/C/SCL, WR/DC, SDI/SDA named as TFT_RST, TFT_CS, TFT_SCK, TFT_ DC, MOSI to display data for these tasks. The rest of its pins are connected to input source and ground. Two pins SDO and TE are not connected.

Arduino Mega 2560:

The Arduino Mega 2560 is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega2560. It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 15 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started. The Mega 2560 board is compatible with most shields designed for the Uno and the former boards Duemilanove or Diecimila

We will connect a transceiver to this Arduino. There will be two such modules built that will communicate with each other and will share information between them . Hence the driver will be able to track the incoming vehicle on the lcd and will prevent accident prevention.

Benefits of the Project

Due to the development of the proposed project, many organizations in Pakistan can take the following benefits:

• Public and society will benefit for our project as it will ensure the public heath and safety measures .The indirect beneficiaries are Doctors and Mechanics.
• NHA Authorities of Pakistan can monitor any vehicle on Highways and Motorways

Law Enforcement Agencies (can track any car from crime prespective).

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

We will build two modules for our project testing. The system will comprise of the following four modules:

The HC-12 is a half-duplex 20 dBm (100 mW) transmitter paired with a receiver that has -117 dBm sensitivity at 5000bps. Paired with an external antenna, they can communicate up to 1 kilometer in the open and are more than adequate for reliable data transmission and receiving. There is a PCB antenna pedestal ANT1 on the module. The user can use the external antenna of 433M frequency band through coaxial cable; there is also an antenna solder eye ANT2 in the module, and it is easy for the user in the welding spring antenna to it. The user could select one of these antennas according to user requirements. The module adopts various serial port transparent transmission modes, and the user could select them by AT command according to user requirements. The average working current of three modes FU1, FU2 and FU3 in idle state is 80?a, 3.6mA a 16mA respectively, and the maximum working current is 100mA (in transmitting state).

 

 

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Transportation

Other Industries

Telecommunication

Core Technology

Others

Other Technologies

Robotics

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People

Required Resources

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