Smart Automotive Black Box System with Emergency Alert
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15662/IJEETR.2026.0802113Keywords:
Black Box System, thing speak, Cloud Monitoring, accelerometer, OBD Interface.Abstract
This paper describes a smart automotive black box system that can monitor in real time, find accidents, and analyze what happened after they happen. The suggested system uses a number of sensors, such as a temperature sensor, an accelerometer, a speed sensor, a camera module, an alcohol sensor, and an OBD-II interface, to gather a lot of information about the vehicle and the driver.An SD card module stores all the data collected on the device itself, and at the same time, the data is sent to the ThingSpeak cloud platform for real-time monitoring and analysis. If there is an accident, the system automatically detects the impact and sends an alert message to pre-set emergency contact numbers along with the live location using GPS and GSM modules.
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