Black-wheels

https://www.canva.com/design/DAErydh1UIU/yHtaGwVvf_YIPgjUwWnTjw/view?utm_content=DAErydh1UIU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

https://github.com/Black-Wheels/Black-Wheels

The problem:

Problems in the traffic system are many to mention. However, the most noticeable is road accidents. In fact, the causes for the accidents varies: driving at night, lack of safe roads, drivers' incapability (e.g., slow reactions) and broken vehicles (e.g., broken breaks), while road problems are hard to solve innovational other problems are much simpler. The high accidents rate in night driving and due to drivers' incapability are more related to the control of the vehicles. Furthermore, the management of the aftermath of the accident if it is inescapable is also part of the problem.

According to a study, Egypt is the highest among Arab countries in the death rate due to road accidents. In 2016, human error caused 72% of traffic accidents; Egypt’s states statistics agency (CAPMAS) has said in report that 2018 saw 8,480 road accidents in the country, down from 11,098 in 2017, a drop of 23.6 percent. 

Deadly road accidents occur daily in Egypt due to poor road safety, badly maintained infrastructure, and loosely enforced traffic regulations. 

The Solution Benefits:

This idea is completely new and objectively solve the problem of pitfalls, it saves the cars’ body from being ruined through the pitfalls. The product will be handling the car instead the driver while facing the pitfalls, it shows an immense ability to slowing down the cars’ speed. The team is professional in technology of IoT and in health managements which ensures the highest level of experience for the dedicated service. The meeting the portion of intermediated income people to above which clearly satisfiable for multiple number of manufacturers. The product is warrantied for the manufacturer problems. The product is available for the dedicated cars’ manufacturers.

The Solution's Mechanism:

• When the car reaches a calculated distance from the bump, the car will start decelerating in a calculated rate.
• The car will be moving in 3 MPH when passing the bump.

• After passing the bump the car will start accelerating again.
• The calculations are based on rolling motion and friction equations.

Software part:

• A software application will be configured with the car’ system to show up the details of the engine, its speed, and the brakes status and more. 
• The software application will be used control the system alerts remotely as it also will display the pervious data. 
• The software application will also show up the upcoming updates from us to the clients and tell them to go for maintenance whenever is needed.
• There will be a contributions window in the application to help users recording the new bumps they face and record it in our maps database. 

Hardware part: 

• The device is connected to the brakes system of the car which ensures the ability of controlling the car’ speed. 
• The device have alerting system embedded with the configuration of the software application to show up the problems that happen in the system and deliver it to the company/user to help him be aware that it is not automated anymore. 
• The hardware device is connected to our modified maps database to scan all the road bumps and handle the car’ speed.

The main paper which inspired our journey into developing a system that integrates into road traffic using satellites and data from space: https://www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet115/chapter7_bul115.pdf

Actually, it has been a great honor to be in such a collaborative-competitive community. A community that helps, guides, collaborate, and compete in the same time! We learned a lot from this community, how to progress in a real project, how to engage with a team in a project, how to perform the space apps experience and use the data science in projects. We could share experiences between each team member, making meetings, teaching each other, and approaching the Hackathon as a team of experts not just students.

Working on traffic and urban development aren't easy challenges, but with the aim of learning about our country and ensuring safe roads for drivers these reasons were like a relief for us. Therefore, we started developing a hardware system that manages the vehicles' speed in the congested roads.

First, we researched the problem of congested roads, worked on shaping the problem to fit the year's challenge. Then, we developed a hardware part to control the vehicles' acceleration and coded it using Arduino board. Finally, we coded a software app to add the hotspots to the map so that the government can manage to add the congested hotspots too.

For sure, we faced a lot of obstacles, but with passion we could handle a last minute deadline pressure, debugging the code until the judgement session.

- WHO:

https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_traffic/countrywork/egy/en/ 

- Egypt Independent: 

https://egyptindependent.com/car-accidents-in-egypt-rise-by-17-8-in-2019-capmas/

- Ahram online:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/329991/Egypt/Politics-/Deaths-from-road-accidents-in-Egypt-down-by--in--C.aspx 

- Traffic Injury Prevention: 

https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2011.639417

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This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.