WSEAS Transactions on Communications
Print ISSN: 1109-2742, E-ISSN: 2224-2864
Volume 12, 2013
Mobile Communication Safety on Road Transport
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Abstract: Telecommunication industry is the world's fastest growing industry with 5.3 billion mobile subscribers (that's 77 percent of the world population) around the globe. This significant rise in cellular phone use has served as the catalyst for major road accidents. They can be extremely distracting and cause careless and unavoidable accidents. Many people have been injured and even killed because of wireless customers and their over-bearing cell phones. With the aim of preventing such types of accidents, we propose a highly efficient automatic electronic system for early detection of incoming or outgoing call, an antenna located on the top of driver seat used for detecting when the driver uses mobile phone and an safety application named (Profile Changer) has developed using J2ME that will automatically loaded on the drivers cell phone which helps in reducing the risk of accidents from occurring, while also ensuring the user need not worry about missing urgent calls. We have extended our research by evaluating the outcome obtained with 2010 study from the US National Safety Council and we have also shown the extent to which this application helps to reduce economic losses in India.
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Keywords: Mobile application to prevent accidents, cell phone while driving, Indian Economic loss due to cell phone accidents, Driver detection, Distraction