Driver Sleep Detection and Alarming System
Driver Sleep Detection and Alarming System
Abstract:-
Methods for Detecting Drowsy Drivers:-
In modern -times, owing to hectic
schedules it becomes very difficult to There are various techniques that
remain active all the time. Imagine a can be used to detect the drowsiness of
situation where a person is driving home drivers. These techniques can be generally
from work, dead tired after facing all the divided into the following categories:
challenges of the day. His hands are on the sensing of physiological characteristics,
wheel and foot on the pedal but suddenly sensing of driver operation, sensing of
he starts feeling drowsy, his eyes start vehicle response, monitoring the response
shutting and his vision blurs before he of driver.
knows it, he’s asleep. Falling asleep on the
wheel can lead to serious consequences, Monitoring Physiological
Characteristics :
there may be accidents and people may
Among these methods, the
even lose their lives. This situation is techniques that are best, based on accuracy
much more common then we notice and are the ones based on Human
hence, it is very important to counter this physiological phenomena . This technique
problem. So to address this issue, we have is implemented in two ways: Measuring
come up with a “Driver Sleep Detection changes in physiological signals, such as
Device”. This system alerts the user if the brain waves and eye blinking; and
person falls asleep at wheel thereby, measuring physical changes such as
avoiding accidents and saving lives. This sagging posture, leaning of the driver’s
system is useful especially for people who head and the open/closed states of the
travel long distances and people who are eyes. The first method, the most accurate,
driving at night. is not realistic, since sensing electrodes
would have to be attached directly onto the
Introduction:- driver’s body, and hence be annoying and
distracting the driver. In addition, long
Project motivation and purpose time driving would result in perspiration
The goal of this project is to develop a on the sensors, diminishing their ability to
system that can accurately detect sleepy monitor accurately. The second technique
driving and make alarms accordingly, is well suited for real world driving
which aims to prevent the drivers from conditions since it can be non-intrusive by
drowsy driving and create a safer driving using optical sensors of video cameras to
environment. detect changes.
The project was
accomplished by a Webcam that
constantly takes image of the driver, a
beagle board that implement image
processing algorithm of sleepy detection,
and a feedback circuit that could generate
alarm and a power supply system.
Block Diagram: device and to operate events. Eye blink
detection has to be done, for which we can
avail readily available blink detectors or
we can incorporate it with a special
instruction written in image processing
that, if there is no eye lid movement found
for the certain period of predetermined i.e.
time greater than the human eye blinking
time then consider an event called “blink”,
for which the set of operations will be
followed. Here, in this project we need to
set time as 5 second or above it, as “blink
event” is different from “common eye
blinking”. We need to conduct testing for
Functions and Features:
only blink event, and not to find common
This system has many features that make it blinking of human eye.
unique and functional. These features
include:
IR Sensor:
1. Eye extraction, use open and close
to determine sleepiness
Methodology:
Implementing an automated system
to vehicles that provides high security to
driver and the passengers, by designing an
eye blink sensor which continuously
monitor number of times the eye blinks,
once when the eye blinks count decreases
(that means the driver is sleepy), buzzer
indication will be given and that wakes
driver from sleep.There are two sections in
IR sensor .The IR transmitter is used to
transmit the infrared rays to our eye. The
IR receiver is used to receive the reflected
infrared rays of eye. If the eye is closed
then the output of IR receiver is high
otherwise the IR receiver output is low.
This is to know whether the eye is at close
or open position.