The Conceptual Approach of System for Automatic Vehicle Accident Detection and Searching for Life Signs of Casualties

摘要

The European eSafety initiative aims to improve the safety and efficiency of road transport. The main element of eSafety is the pan-European eCall project-an in-vehicle system which idea is to inform about road collisions or serious accidents. As estimated by the European Commission, the implemented system will reduce services' response time by 40%. This will save 2,500 people a year. In 2015, the European Parliament adopted the legislation that from the end of March 2018 all new cars from the EU should be equipped with the eCall system. The limitation of this idea is that only small part of cars driven in UE are brand new (about 3.7% brand new cars were sold in 2015). This paper presents the first concept of an onboard eCall device which can be installed at the owners' request in used vehicles. The proposed system will be able to detect a road accident, indicate the number of vehicle's occupants, report their vital functions, and send that information to dedicated emergency services via duplex communication channel.