International Journal of Scientific Research Engineering & Technology (IJSRET), ISSN 2278 0882

Volume 4, Issue 3, March 2015

Survey on Rash Driving Detection Using Acceleration

And Orientation Sensors
P.THARANGAI THAMIL1, S.VANITHA2
1. Department of Information Technology, IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram
2. Assistant Professor Department of Information Technology, IFET College of Engineering, Villupuram

AbstractRash driving is most dangerous for

people. Risky driving primarily includes heavy
either rudely or driving under the power of
alcohol, is a major grounds of traffic accidents
throughout the world. They provide an early
detection to alert the dangerous vehicle
maneuvers related to rash driving. There are lots
of sensors used in various techniques to detect
the rash driving. Such techniques and sensors
are being discussed a in this survey.
Keywords Acceleration, Detection, Embedded
device, Orientation sensors, Rash driving.
1. INTRODUCTION
Todays life many people are intentionally or
unintentionally driving rashly so many accidents
is occurring driving. In order to monitor the
driver behavior smart phone sensors are used
[1]. This paper provide the survey on determine
the rash driving detection using acceleration and
orientation sensors. Number of accidents caused
by impairment of alertness in vehicle drivers
pose a serious danger to people, not only the
drivers who are driving their vehicle but also to
the general public pose a serious threat due to
unsafe
driving[2].
Driving
style
can
characteristically considerate and recognize
driving events that reduce into category can
support in medium security systems [3].

2. LITERATURE SURVEY
In this section we focus on different types of
sensors used in driving and how to work in
drunk and driving, immature person who drives
the vehicle on the road. In 2012 and also 2013
nearly 10,322 people were died by alcoholimpaired rash driving. Nearly one third (31%) of
traffic related deaths in United States. Numbers
of accidents caused by injury of awareness in
vehicle drivers create a stern hazard to people,
not only the drivers who are powerful their

vehicle but also to the general public pose a

serious threat due to insecure driving[1]. More
than a million people have died in traffic crashes
in the United States drunk driving is one of the
main causes. Camera performance and position
is determining the proper work of creature or
system [1]. Vehicle infrastructure includes the
communication between vehicles, vehicles and
the transportation and ensures highway safety
[4].
Focus on the cues of problems of lane
location continuation and pace power. We map
these cues into lateral acceleration and
longitudinal acceleration of Vehicles [1]. Real
time on board accident prevention sysem with
major on public transport vehicles. The contextawareness based approach is used to detecting
the behavior of driver. Driver's behavior is a
combination of different factors such as the
driver, the vehicle and the environment [4]. If
motivating pattern spray predefined rash driving
criteria, system indicate driver a propos it and if
circumstances continues, speed limiting is
applied to vehicle at the same time text message
is send to nearest police station [5]. Driving
technique can naturally be divided into two
category: typical (non-aggressive) and
aggressive. Understanding and recognizing
driving events that fall into these categories can
aid in vehicle safety systems [3].Camera (often
multiple), Microphone (often multiple), 3-axis
Accelerometer, 3-axis Gyroscope, Proximity,
Ambient Light, PWM, Magnetometer, GPS,
These devices are powerful, inexpensive and
versatile research platforms that make
instrumenting a vehicle for data collection
accessible to the general public as well as
academia. For the system, focus will be with the
rear-facing camera, accelerometer, gyroscope
and GPS [3]. Dedicated short range
Communication is used to allow vehicles in
close nearness to converse with each other, or to
communicate with pavement apparatus [6].

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New way of monitoring driver performance

using an electronic unit with two sensors,
namely a GPS and accelerometer, and
theoretical models, which include both
acceleration and speed data, to detect and report
erratic driving of a minibus taxis [7].
2.1) Global Positioning System:
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a
space-based satellite navigation system that
provides location and time information in all
weather conditions, anywhere on or near the
Earth where there is an unobstructed line of
sight to four or more GPS satellites. The system
provides critical capabilities to military, civil,
and commercial users around the world. The
United States government created the system,
maintains it, and makes it freely accessible to
anyone with a GPS receiver.
2.2) PWM:
Pulse-width
modulation (PWM)
or pulseduration modulation (PDM), a technique used to
encode a message into a pulsing signal. It is a
type of modulation. Although this modulation
technique can be used to encode information for
transmission, its main use is to allow the control
of the power supplied to electrical devices,
especially to inertial loads such as motors. In
addition, PWM is one of the two principal
algorithms used in photovoltaic solar battery
chargers, the other being MPPT. Maximum
power point tracking (MPPT) is a technique that
grid connected inverters, solar battery chargers
and similar devices use to get the maximum
possible power from one or more photovoltaic
modules.
2.3) Context Aware Computing:
Context-aware computing refers to a general
class of mobile systems that can sense their
physical environment, and adapt their behavior
accordingly. Context-aware systems are a
component of a ubiquitous computing or
pervasive computing environment. Three
important aspects of context are: where you are;
who you are with; and what resources are
nearby. Although location is a primary
capability, location
2.4) Zigbee:

ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high-level

communication protocols used to create personal
area networks built from small, low-power
digital radios. ZigBee devices can transmit data
over long distances by passing data through a
mesh network of intermediate devices to reach
more distant ones.
2.5) Driver behavior:
Behavior is frequently studied in conjunction
with accident research in order to assess causes
and differences in accident involvement. Traffic
psychologists distinguish three motivations of
driver behavior: reasoned or planned behavior,
impulsive or emotional behavior, and habitual
behavior. Additionally, social and cognitive
applications of psychology are used, such as
enforcement, road safety education campaigns,
and also therapeutic and rehabilitation programs.
2.6) Acceleration:
Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity
with time. In everyday English, the word
acceleration is often used to describe a state of
increasing speed. Acceleration, in physics is the
rate of change of velocity of an object. An
object's acceleration is the net result of any and
all forces acting on the object.
2.7) Magnetometers
Magnetometers are measurement instruments
used for two general purposes: to measure
the magnetization of a magnetic material like
a ferromagnetic, or to measure the strength and,
in some cases, the direction of the magnetic
field at a point in space.
2.8) Ambient light:
Ambient light refers to any source of light that
is not explicitly supplied by the photographer for
the purpose of taking photos. The term usually
refers to sources of light that are
already available naturally (e.g. the sun, moon,
lightning) or artificial light already being used
(e.g. to light a room).

3. CONCLUSION:
The rash driving detection techniques
can be provided along with the sensors and the
techniques can be useful along in the road side
units. They can even be detecting along the

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minimum coverage area of over one kilometer

up to three kilometer. These techniques can even
be extended along to even further more coverage
area and enhance the security features to the
common people.

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