Image processing for driver's safety and vehicle control using raspberry Pi and webcam

摘要

This paper gives real time approach for detection of driver drowsiness due to fatigue or intoxication. According to survey made by government, 22% accidents are due to drowsiness and 33% accidents are due to alcohol drinking. Actually to develop such a technique in car which can detect the drowsiness of driver is a big task. To complete this task image processing technique can be more useful. The camera is supported by embedded system in which Raspbian OS is used. This embeddd system is serially interfaced with another micro controller with RS232 protocol via serial communication, which will detect the real time siuation of the driver and switch on the alarm when drowsiness is detected the system switches off the car ignition power source by microcontroller based signal. A GSM module is introduced in the system which sends sms to the person whose contact is saved in the system.