Design and FPGA Implementation of Intelligent Helmet Hardware Chip for Safe Drive

摘要

The research article is based on a very serious issue of number of deaths of two wheelerdrivers in India due to severe head injuries occurred because of not wearing helmets. Statistics data ofIndia shows in year 2015 total 1,44,391 accidents took place with two wheelers and 36,803 deathsoccurred and out of which 19.6 were due to head on collision and most of them due to not wearinghelmet. The Flex sensor based a novel system is developed to address this issue, which is designed in suchway that vehicle will not be ignited unless person wears a helmet which assures the safety of driver. Thepaper focuses on the chip design and implementation of hardware system on FPGA for helmet. The highspeed controller is designed with the help of VHDL programming language in Xilinx 14.2 ISE softwareand synthesized on Virtex-5 FPGA. The function simulation is also carried to test the different test caseswith Modelsim 10.1b. The developed system supports the frequency of 781.250 MHz, which can be anoptimal solution for the intelligent helmet.