Although mobile phones have enabled everyone to communicate instantly, they are quickly becoming a global killer, causing 20% of fatal road traffic accidents worldwide each year, half of which occur on Indian highways. The breakthrough new technology jointly developed by Abdul Shabeer, a PhD student at Anna Polytechnic University, and Costa Rica’s RSD Wahidabanu and H. Abdul Zubar will destroy the mobile phones used by truck drivers during long-distance transportation, thereby preventing accidents.
Shabeer told IANS: “Truck and heavy vehicle drivers rarely turn off their mobile phones during the journey, but device interference, especially when making calls, making calls, or holding the phone while driving, may cause danger during the journey,” from Qin. Chennai. When the driver turns on the ignition switch, the interference system will always work. The mobile cell phone jammer device receives the radiation emitted by the mobile phone. The device can detect whether the driver or passenger is using a mobile phone.
“Once the driver is detected using a mobile phone, the short-range jammer will deactivate the mobile phone without affecting other passengers’ mobile phones. The system is powered by the vehicle,” said Shabeer, who studies computer science and engineering at Anna University in Chennai. “When using a mobile phone, truck drivers usually slow down their braking response. Statistically speaking, they are more likely to have road accidents than those who turn off their mobile phones.” said Shabeer, who previously worked at IBM in Bangalore, India. .
Shabeer and colleagues said: “In addition, using a mobile phone can be distracting, slow down the response to traffic signs, lane discipline, and unexpectedly shorten the distance between your vehicle and the driver in front. All these factors increase the occurrence. The possibility of an accident.”. Shabeer added: “The price of the entire system including the mobile phone jammer is about 3500 rupees. Researchers plan to commercialize the product.” Shabeer said that India is one of the few in India that has lost nearly 3% due to traffic accidents. One of the countries with GDP.
“Although India is a generally accepted fact with the largest number of traffic accidents in the world, the number of drivers with mobile phones involved in traffic accidents has not been studied. We surveyed more than 2,800 drivers and the results showed that “20% of the world’s The driver had a traffic accident due to his mobile phone,” Shabeer said. Shabeeer worked with Wahidabanu, Dean of the School of Engineering of Tamilnadu Salem City Hall, and Zubar, a research scientist at the Trichy National Institute of Technology (NIT). The development took nearly three years. The technology can be used in all vehicles around the world. “Other systems used abroad, unlike our system, cannot distinguish whether the driver or the passenger is using a mobile phone. Our technology is groundbreaking,” Shabeer said.