SMART SOLAR VEHICLE

This is for the safety of the driver, at adverse conditions such as Fuel leakage, Break failure, Motor failure, etc. At these conditions the driver loses his control on the vehicle which may lead to major accidents. To avoid this driver is provided with a Kill switch on the dashboard and near the seat. On pressing this switch the whole drive system is disconnected from the supply and thus is shut down and the vehicle is brought to a complete halt. In case of brake failure a special switch called Break Travel over Switch (BTOS) is actuated as a brake pedal is displaced by a large amount than the usual action. During the actuation, the operation resembles as that of the Kill Switch. 

On the account of bringing one of green policy "Reuse" into our green mobility we have designed an impact attenuator with waste Pepsi cans filled with cotton balls and waste coconut coir. The main idea of installing this is to reduce the force of impact by absorbing it before the force is passed on to the chassis. In addition to this a kill switch is installed in front of the attenuator which opens the circuit on head on impact.

First throttle with potentiometer to vary the input reference voltage to the controller dedicated to the motor from 0-5v. The efficiency of speed variation and acceleration was not upto the mark as some lag is produced due to the significant voltage drop at the throttle. The acceleration was not satisfactory.

Now we have installed a throttle that work based on the Hall effect principle. This has increased the acceleration rate to the pressure applied on the pedal. Efficiency of acceleration is increased as the system consist of IC and a magnet. This system also reduced the size of the throttle pedal

This system ensures in time rescue of the driver on the account of an accident. It sends the location of the accident and driver vitals at that time to the nearest ambulance service through the cloud server dedicated for this purpose.

The alerts will also be sent to the previously added mobile numbers in the system.

Also on the account of first impact the whole circuit is shut down to prevent fire due to sparks and short circuits.

This will be completed by next week.

This part of the project which monitors vital parameters of the driver such as pulse rate and vehicle vitals such as battery chamber temperature, motor tempertature, battery charge level, supply from solar pannel has been completed and is under testing. After testing it will be integrated with the Driver fatigue detection system.