IOT Based Real-Time Drowsy Driving Detection System for the Prevention of Road Accidents

At present time, drowsy driving has become one of the major issues of the traffic collision. According to statistics, a large number of road accidents occur due to drowsy driving which results in severe injuries and deaths. For this reason, various studies were done in designing systems that can examine the driver fatigue and alert him beforehand, thus preventing him to fall asleep behind the wheel and cause an accident. Some traditional approaches used vehicle-based measures to design their system, however, such measurements are highly influenced by the structure of the road, type of vehicle and the driving skill. Other approaches used psychological measures for their system that tend to provide better accuracy in monitoring the drowsiness of the driver.…