WiDRIVE Safety Innovation: Wireless Device for Regulation and Information on Vehicular Events

Abstract:

Private and public transportations are use as common mobility of people, making it important to know where traffic congestions, car accidents and other related vehicular activities that may ruin your way to office works or to your destinations be avoided. Philippines is known to be one of the most traffic congested in the world due to uncontrollable volumes of cars running in major streets every day. In this paper, a proposed wireless device that can be attached to a vehicle was developed to track the route using global positioning system, perform geo fencing and perform controlling mechanism to help the driver locates a shortest path, avoid traffic jams, and do messaging and traffic advisories based on contacts and information stored in the software utilities. Based on initial testing, the software is capable of recording and reading vehicle logs, activating GPS route, reading accelerometer log, and reading compass log as bases of controlling mechanism while the device is activated, WiDrive. Result shows that WiDrive is reliable as it successfully mapped to the GPS, and passed the crash accelerometer test at different distance. If given a chance to improve and implement in a wide scale testing, an exponential benefits can be achieved.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 835)
• Pages: 781-787
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.835.781
• Online since: May 2016
• Authors: Russel Dela Torre, Wenald Lopez
• Keywords: Geo Fencing, Global Positioning System (GPS), Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), Vehicle Alarm, WiDrive

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