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Accident warning system developed

R. Sujatha

Chennai student's innovation can pinpoint crash site

Abhinand Ramakrishnan

CHENNAI: Abhinand Ramakrishnan, an electrical engineering student of Sri Venkateswara Engineering College, has developed an accident warning system that can be monitored from a control room along the highway.

Abhinand devised the system with the help of his teachers last year while studying at the Mylapore branch of Vidya Mandir.

The project was displayed at the Intel Science Talent Discovery Fair, held last December at Anna University. The fair was open to students from class IX -XII.

According to Abhinand's tabletop model, receivers would be set up at 1 km intervals and connected by cables to a control room. The control rooms would be set up in 50 km intervals. A transmitter gets activated as the airbag in the vehicles inflates during an accident. The activated transmitter trips power supply to two consecutive receivers close to the crash site. On noticing this, control room personnel would be able to mobilise resources to the accident site. The tabletop model cost Rs. 700 to make. "Even if we have telephones, we need passers-by to call and provide information about the accident. As there are many legal problems, people do not call up," says Abhinand.

He says receivers can be fixed on milestones installed on the highways.

Though the basic idea was his, he got help from Pushpa, head of the physics department, on the project.

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