DAR- ES-SALAAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

SENIOR PROJECT I

PROJECT TITLE: DRIVERS ALCOHOL DETECTION AND VEHICLE CONTROL WITH GSM
PROJECT TYPE: DESIGN/PROBLEM SOLVING
STUDENT NAME: JOACHIM SAMWEL
ADMISSION NO: 150647412615
CLASS: BENG 15 ETE
 Background Information

Life is very important and crucial gift that a human being posses. Deaths or deformity can happen to someone whose
life is not properly protected intentionally or accidentally, so it is our duty to protect our lives and the lives of our
loved ones dearly.
According to the statistics one of the causes of death, injuries or deformity in Tanzania is the road accidents. Road
accidents plays a big role in increasing the number of loss of lives or deformity in our societies. According to the
police reports, road accidents are being caused by many factors, one of them is drunken drivers. We usually come
across drink and drive cases where drunk drivers by the influence of the alcohol ignores road signs and crash their cars
causing damage to life and property.
For Tanzania the acceptable level of blood alcohol content is 0% for professional or commercial workers and drivers
and not more than 0.08% for all other drivers.
 Problem Statement

Alcohol drinking for drivers is one among the major cause of road accidents
 Objectives

• Main Objectives
• Specific Objectives
 Main Objectives

The main objective of this proposed project is to design and develop a system
that will be able to detect if the presence of alcohol to the driver’s breath when
he/she is driving or trying to drive while is drunk and stop the ignition which
will force to stop the engine from keep accelerating and alerting the next kin
or law enforcing officer by an sms with a location that the driver is trying to
drive while is already drunk.
 Specific Objectives

• To design and implement of alcohol sensing detection section.

• To design and implement of switching and control section.
• To program the control system to suitably control the activity and
performance of the entire system.
 Proposed system

The proposed system would be constantly monitoring the driver breath by placing it on the driver
wheel or somewhere the driver breath can be constantly monitored by it. So if the driver is drunk
and tries to drive, the system will detect the alcohol in his/her breathe by using the alcohol sensor.
The output from the alcohol sensing device is attached to a vehicle ignition system that will prevent
the vehicle from starting. In another case if the driver is not drunk while starts the vehicle and the
engines is started but she/he drinks while driving the sensor will detect the presence of alcohol in
his /her breath and stop the engines so that the vehicle would not accelerate any further and at the
same time the GSM module will send the alert notification sms to the next of kin or a family
member of the driver with location where the driver is at so that they can trace him/her easily.
 Block Diagram of proposed system

SENSING NOTIFICATION
UNIT AND DISPLAY
UNIT

SWITCHING
GSM CONTROL UNIT UNIT
MODULE

POWER SUPPLY
 Methodology

• Literature review
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Circuit design
• Circuit simulation
• Prototype building and testing
• Report writing
 Conclusion

This proposed project can immensely decrease the rate of drunken driving
cases which often leads to accidental death, bad injuries or deformity. By
capitalizing on recent technology advancements that will not let the car to be
driven if the drivers ha drunk the alcohol.
Project time frame
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