Road Safety Using Android Based Smartphone

Past few years, almost the whole world has seen a tremendous growth in the accidents occurring on roads. Developed and developing countries all around the world and mainly India has experienced increasing number of injuries and deaths due to unawareness of road conditions, unhealthy driving behaviours and increasing traffic. We cannot ignore the important contribution of science made in road safety by introducing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), warning systems, in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) and other such safety systems for minimizing occurring road hazards. Yet existing and new innovations feel the need of more improvements for tackling the road anomalies. Mobile devices or say mobile phones are found to be one of the reasons for road accidents, but in this paper we wish to present a multi-purpose Smartphone as an innovative remedy for preventing road accidents. Most of the safety systems that have been developed are formed by studying different accidental situations after they have occurred. By using a Smartphone mobile device, working on android, we try to provide a pictorial representation of road conditions with different road anomalies on routes shown by Google map. By implementing such an idea we try to make the vehicle operator aware of safe driving behaviours and different road problems on routes to be travelled.