IoT Enabled Driver Compatible Cost-Effective System for Drowsiness Detection with Optimized Response Time

The present work researches driver drowsiness, which constitutes a huge problem, and can turn into fatal incidents potentially involving the losing of lives, being it while driving in a highway (car, bus, truck, etc.), in the railway, or any other transportation mean (ship, airplane, etc.). Recent technology has been involved in the study of the fatigue behaviour. The purpose of this work is to identify the in-driver’s drowsiness, contributing to get rid of the accidents, mainly during the night, and to ensure better safety in train and on the highways. A camera is used to capture images from the driver, and face detection is executed in real-time to find out the exact position of driver’s face. Here, the blinking of the driver’s eye is under consideration. The fundamental concept lies in the closing of the driver’s eye for a specific duration of time. If the closing time exceeds that certain duration, drowsiness is detected and an alarm is sounded for awareness. Python and OpenCV (using Haarcascade library) are the fundamental programming platforms for sensing the facial attributes. In this work, a cost-effective system for the driver’s drowsiness detection is aimed. Further, the result also indicates the reduction of response and processing time, which is ideal for real time detection.