Distributed body sensor network using V2V/V2I communications for safety driving - An overview and a new proposal

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Authors

Farook Sattar¹

1. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Conference / event

International Conference on New Trends in Engineering and Technology (ICNTET’2018), September 2018 (Chennai, India)

Poster summary

As the traffic problem increases, we are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of mentally stressed and angry drivers. Driver is the most important and valuable component of a vehicle. That is why, it is essential to monitor driver’s stress and anger level for safety driving. Physiological parameters such as heart rate, heart rate variability, respiration rate, respiration waveform, will be monitored using a body sensor network consists of multiple physiological sensors placed at the driver’s body. When a driver’s stress or anger level reaches the danger level, an alarm notification will be send to neighboring vehicles, or roadside infrastructure and most importantly nearby traffic police emergency service using V2V/V2I communications for VANETs (Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks) to restrict the vehicle for avoiding collisions. The proposed scheme will be useful for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) to improve the road safety by distributing vital physiological information from a body sensor network.

Keywords

Sensors and ad hoc networks, Safety driving, V2V/V2I communication, ITS, VANET, Driver's emotion

Research areas

Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Science , Bioengineering

References

1. Association for safe international road travel ; URL: https:// www.asirt.org
2. J. R. Francisco, J. A. Martinez, and P. M. Ruiz, ``A survey on modeling and simulation of vehicular networks: Communications, mobility, and tools’’, Computer Communications, vol. 43, pp. 1-15, 2014.
3. M. A. Javed and J. Y. Khan, ``An efficient data dissemination scheme for warning messages in vehicular ad hoc networks’’, In N. Chilamkurti (Ed.), Security, Design, and Architecture for Broadband and Wireless Network Technologies, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013.

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

Data sharing not applicable to this poster as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

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