Collision avoidance and Drone surveillance using Thread protocol in V2V and V2I communications

Abstract

According to the World Health Organizations (WHO) report nearly 1.25 million people die in road accidents every year. This creates a need for Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) which can ensure safe travel. To tackle the above challenge in existing the ADAS, Intra-vehicular communications (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure communications (V2I) has been one of the predominant research topics nowadays due to the rapid growth of automobile industries and ideology of producing autonomous cars in the near future. The key feature of V2V communication is vehicle to vehicle collision detection by transmitting information like vehicle speed and position of a vehicle to other vehicles in the same location using wireless sensor networks (WSN). On the other hand, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are growing at a rapid rate in various aspects of life including dispatch of medicines and undergo video surveillance during an emergency due to less air traffic. This paper demonstrates the practice of integrating V2V communication with Thread, one of the low power WSN for data transmission, to initiate adaptive cruise control in a vehicle during a crisis. Also, UAV systems are employed as a part of V2I system to provide aerial view video surveillance if any accident occurs.