Real time car driver's condition monitoring system

Abstract

Driver's drowsiness and fatigue have been major causes of the serious traffic accidents, which make this an area of great socioeconomic concern. This paper describes the design of ECG (Electrocardiogram) sensor with conductive fabric electrodes and PPG (Photoplethysmogram) sensor to obtain physiological signals for car driver's health condition monitoring. ECG and PPG signals are transmitted to base station connected to the server PC via personal area network for practical test. Intelligent health condition monitoring system is designed at the server to analyze the PPG and ECG signals. Our purpose for intelligent health condition monitoring system is managed to process HRV signals analysis derived from the physiological signals in time and frequency domain and to evaluate the driver's drowsiness status.