IoT in automobiles application (example)

Automobiles in IoT

Accident rates are tremendously increasing day by day due to reckless driving. It has become a necessary to implement a system which ensures safety. An electronic system which can be designed to monitor over speed conditions and seat belt status of the driver. It also provides a button, named as Ladies‟ One Button Help”, which can be used in emergency conditions for the security notion. It uses Arduino Uno as the controller. It uses GPS and GSM modules for sending over speed notification and ‘Help’ messages to police control room and also helps to reduce accidents due to over speed as it forces the driver to keep the vehicle speed in the predetermined range. This device thus helps to provide a safe and secure driving environment.

To be precise, extension of this system would be an integrated database that would track, communicate, store and provide intelligent feedback on critical vehicle performance and safety parameters like Location, Vehicle status(Lock and unlock, acceleration, air bag deployment, Excessive vibration or failure of parts, suspected location change ).

This is also useful for intelligent maintenance. Local analytics could be applied on thousands of on-board sensors to flag abnormal events and take corrective action. The data may then be sent to automakers for deeper insight into trends across entire vehicle fleets. Intelligent cars could collect and analyze data from each other and also provide the right information about the transportation infrastructure to keep drivers safe, reducing vehicle wait and travel time. These have the potential to prevent accidents by exchanging information about location, speed and direction. As a result cars take proactive measures to move safely and efficiently.

Integration of smartness and intelligence with IoT creates safe, unique, high value user- automotive interface experience .

This article gives an real world application how IoT can be implemented in automobiles to increase safe and secure driving. There are lot of things can be done in IoT in every industry. Based on ROI (return on investment), feasibility, security, energy- efficiency, quality etc have to take proper decision whether to implement IoT is needed or not. Thank you. I hope you like this article. Suggestions, queries always welcome. :)