Kota student designs snooze alert glassess
KOTA: A class 11 student of Kota has developed a pair of special sunglasses that can help avert accidents by alerting a driver through alarms and vibrations in case he/she falls asleep at the wheel.
Pratyush Sudhakar 16, a student of Sarvodaya school in Kota who has developed the device told HT that “If an exhausted driver wears these glasses while driving, then it will stop him from falling asleep ”.
Revealing the design and mechanism of the sunglasses, Sudhakar said that “An Infrared (IR) Sensor is attached, to the left part of the glasses, which has two LED bulbs connected”. The IR LED bulb emits infra-red radiations and if these radiations strikes a reflecting object, like our eyelids, and get reflected then the photodiode receives these radiations and generate signals which are transmitted to arduino-nano through jumper wires from IR sensor, he said.
“And then the arduino creates an output which are send to a buzzer and a vibrator due to which they operates and don’t let the driver sleep while he is driving”. Arduino works according to the instructions we have inserted in it from arduino software, told Sudhakar.
Pratyush said he got the idea
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If an exhausted driver wears these glasses while driving, then it will stop him from falling asleep. The project was completed in 6 months. PRATYUSH SUDHAKAR,
Class IX student
after reading about road accidents. A report by Central Route Research Centre, Lucknow says that around 20% of road mishaps occur due to drowsiness.
Pratyush said that he had attended a science workshop last year in which he learnt developing one liner robot after which he started working on the sunglasses project. “I completed the sunglasses project in six months time”, he said.