Development of Car Accident Handling Systems Using Cloud Computing

This research report explores the development of a car accident handling system utilizing cloud computing. The primary aim is to design a mobile application that can detect car accidents and notify the concerned rescue teams promptly. The report delves into the background of the problem, emphasizing the rising number of road accidents and the potential of cloud computing to mitigate these incidents. A comprehensive literature review is presented, examining existing research and related work in the field, including the use of sensors and smart devices in cars. The research outlines the scope, objectives, and potential risks associated with the project, along with ethical, legal, social, security, and professional considerations. A detailed schedule of activities, including a work breakdown structure, task lists, and a Gantt chart, is provided to illustrate the project's timeline. The study also examines the sources and use of knowledge, citing relevant journals, standards, and articles that support the research. The proposed system framework involves sensors detecting accidents, uploading data to the cloud, and sending notifications to rescue teams. The research employs a mixed-method approach for data collection, incorporating both primary and secondary data. The report concludes by highlighting the relevance of the research in improving road safety and reducing fatalities. This report also includes a discussion of ethical issues, legal considerations, social impacts, and security concerns associated with the project.

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Title: Car accidents handling systems with Cloud Computing
Table of Contents
Title..................................................................................................................................................1
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Aim..............................................................................................................................................3
2. Background, Motivation and Relevance......................................................................................3
2.1 Background............................................................................................................................3
2.2 Literature Review..................................................................................................................3
2.3 Motivation..............................................................................................................................5
2.4 Related Work.........................................................................................................................5
2.5 Relevance...............................................................................................................................6
2.6 Sources and Use of Knowledge.............................................................................................6
3. Scope, Objectives and Risks........................................................................................................8
3.1 Scope......................................................................................................................................8
3.2 Objective................................................................................................................................8
3.3 Risk........................................................................................................................................8
4. Ethics, Legal, Social, Security and Professional Issues.............................................................10
4.1 Ethics...................................................................................................................................10
4.2 Legal....................................................................................................................................10
4.3 Social...................................................................................................................................10
4.4 Security................................................................................................................................10
4.5 Professional..........................................................................................................................11
5. Schedule of activities.................................................................................................................11
5.1 Work Breakdown Structure.................................................................................................11
5.2 Tasks Lists...........................................................................................................................12
5.3 Gantt chart...........................................................................................................................15
6. References..................................................................................................................................15
7. Appendix....................................................................................................................................19

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1. Introduction
There is an increase in number of accidents on road that are rising the rate of road
accident. This would help to increase the human death rate that are cause due to accidents. There
is an increase in the use of sensors and other devices of information technology that are being
used by the humans in handling a car systems. These systems are to be handled properly to avoid
accidents on road (Rahman, Cahyani and Choo 2017). This research deals with different cloud
computing devices that are to be used in mitigating the car accidents on roads.

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2. Aim
The aim of this research is to implement car accidents handling system with the help of
cloud computing. The system will send electronic notification to the concerned team so that they
get to know about the car accidents and help them accordingly. Cloud computing plays a
significant role to alert the rescue team about the accidents that has taken place and required
team is sent to the spot to rescue.
2. Background, Motivation and Relevance
2.1 Background
The solution of cloud computing are very critical for life systems and that would help to
increase facilities that are included in the car systems. Development of cloud computing devices
would help the make the life of persons easier and those devices will increase the efficiency of
using the information technology in the daily life of humans. Involvement of cloud computing
has help the car producers to minimize the complexity of the cars and helped to enhance the
security of the persons travelling in the car (Rahman, Kessler and Choo 2017). This research
intends to develop a car accident handling system that is connected with cloud computing and
this application would help to reduce the death rate of person because of car accidents.
2.2 Literature Review
With the increase number of vehicles, there is increase number of road accidents that
takes place each year. Safety of the human lives have been decreased due to increased number of
population (Singhal and Tomar 2016). Most of the accidents on roads takes place due to over
speeding. Proper solution is needed to safe human lives from car accidents.

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As per the researchers Raju and Geethakumari (2016), there are two main factors which
are responsible for car accidents. One is heavy traffic and the seconds is rash driving. The drivers
those are reckless has the habit of drinking and then driving which results of road accidents. So,
making the use of cloud computing in proper way, accidents can be resolved. Improvement in
the field of Information technology, has helped to increase the effective use of cloud computing.
This would help them to implement cloud computing in many sector of life and that has improve
the lifestyle of the people too.
The mobile based application that is proposed by Balushi, Yousif and Al-Shezawi (2017)
includes a series of activities that are to be followed. In the first phase, when the accidents
happen, the sensors will upload the data in the cloud so that others get to know about the place of
accidents, the concerned team will have a notification on their mobile application from the cloud
stating the time and place of the accident. Tis would help them to rescue the victims from the
accident zone and that could help them to save the life of the people.
Gargees et al. (2016) said that for handling of accidents, many resources are needed to
handle the accident. When there is accident, quick as well as fast actions are to be taken that are
actually needed to handle the injured or the victims in the cars. So, to handle car accidents,
communication should be established faster and for that cloud computing offers a great
advantage. Cloud computing in car accident handling systems helps in accessing quick
processing power, provides unlimited storage and helps to share the information easily to all
concerned people. All these available advantages of cloud computing has enabled the researchers
to develop a system that will be capable of handling accidents and save the life of the people.

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2.3 Motivation
The road accidents are occupying very large number of proportion. This has attracted
researchers to think about the road accidents as because the live of the people are associated with
accidents. Car is the critical system and includes operating engine that mainly requires technical
expertise (Tsakalidis et al. 2019). As with the increase in number of vehicles the total number of
accidents are also being increased. So, implementing cloud computing technology in an
application of car accidents handling can stop car accidents saving the lives of the people.
The increasing number of cars, increased drivers and increased traffic has affected the
community, moral society and economics negatively. There are many studies that have state that
using of information technology has become necessary to lessen the road accidents.
Implementing modern methods for data analysis helps to minimize the loss of human lives and
also helps to lessen the economic losses that are caused due to road accidents. There are many
laws and regulation to control the road accidents. So, there is a need to develop an application
that could help to reduce the road accidents (Jaatun et al. 2017). The motivation of this research
study is to provide an idea of developing car accident handling systems that could help to reduce
the road accidents. The application would detect the place of accidents and would able to pass
the message or notify the required team so that they can save the life of the people having an
accident. This would help to reduce the death rates of the people who die because of not getting
service after the accidents.
2.4 Related Work
In most of the cars that are manufactured today, there are smart devices like key tracker,
bluetooth adapter, car tracker, tire safety monitor and many others. All these devices are
connected with cars making it more powerful for sensing, communicating and for processing the

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capabilities of the devices. Most of the studies also shows that a large number of people dies
because they do not get proper services at the time of accidents. Due to no active service, the
victims of the accidents dies on the spot.
Authors Balushi, Yousif and Al-Shezawi (2017) have explained that there are cooperative
tracking methods having a built-in sensor to track the car where it is leading. This would help to
track the car and provide help if necessary. For monitoring the road traffic, studies also shows
that there are traffic control system that are based on the cloud computing and latest technologies
and those helps to control the traffic congestion on road. As per the authors, there are different
computing techniques that are actually based on modelling scheme and also helps to decode the
scheme for estimating the travel time and the simulation results that can validate the performance
of the tracking system.
2.5 Relevance
The researchers Jaatun et al. (2017) have stated that there is a need of developing mobile
application that would be connected with cloud computing to serve the victims of accidents. The
proposed mobile application that would be described in this section will help to avoid the
accidents with the help of cloud computing. When accident happens, the sensors will upload the
accident in the cloud and the rescuers team will be notified with the location of accident. This
would help the rescuers to save the life of the people and that would also reduce the number of
death in road accidents.
2.6 Sources and Use of Knowledge
The source of knowledge that were used to carry out this research was journals, standards
and articles that states the research of implementing cloud computing to reduce the accidents
(Chen, Chen and Lin 2016). The sources of knowledge that were used for carrying out this

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research was mostly taken from Google scholar and those articles were used to carry out this
research study. The diagram below shows the proposed framework of the application system that
is to be developed. When car accident occurs, the cloud gets updated about the accident and
notification is sent to the rescue team to save the lives in accident. The live location of the
accident is updated on the satellite so that the rescue team can track the location.
The methods that will be used for carrying out this research will be mixed method. Bothe
primary and secondary data collection process will be included in the research so that proper data
can be collected to carry out the research study.
Figure 1: Framework of the proposed system
(Source: Jaatun et al. 2017)

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3. Scope, Objectives and Risks
3.1 Scope
The scope of this project is to develop a research on involvement of cloud computing for
handling accidents. The scope of this research is to study the importance of developing a mobile
application that will be capable of handling the accidents with the help of cloud computing. The
scope includes need of having data security in the application and satisfying all the non-
functional requirement of the application includes availability, reliability and supportability. The
cloud can help to establish communication between the rescuer team and the accident location
and also helps to include different smart devices in car that can help to establish communication.
3.2 Objective
The objective that this research project includes is
1. To evaluate and critically review the existing researches those are associated with
implementing cloud computing for handling the accidents.
2. To develop and design a mobile application that is used to handle the accidents with
the help of cloud computing.
3. To evaluate the advantages of cloud computing in car accidents.
4. To evaluate how this research will be advantageous to save life in accidents.
3.3 Risk
Risk
Number
Risk event Likelihood Impact Risk management
strategy
Risk
Owner
1 Psychological risk: Low High Proper health Researcher

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There might be
emotional stress in
carrying out the survey
and that is to be
managed while
carrying out a research.
professional should
be contacted in case
of psychological
risks.
2 There is a risk of not
completing the research
on time as because
relevant data to new
topic might not be
easily available that
that might delay the
completing of the
research.
High Medium The project planning
is to be done before
carrying out the
project and carry out
the project as per the
schedule that is
planned for the
research.
Researcher
5 There might be a risk of
not completing the
research with the
scheduled budget that is
$154,600. The budget
of the project might
increase depending on
the availability of data
High High All the activities in
the project schedule
are to be tracked
down and the budget
for the project is to
be followed. This
research project
should be carried
Researcher

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related to the research
project.
out in supervision of
the supervisor.
4. Ethics, Legal, Social, Security and Professional Issues
4.1 Ethics: The ethical issues that this research project might face is that while
conducting the research, the information identification varies and that the information carried out
is to be confirmed that it is anonymous. The secondary data that is used in this research project is
ethical and will not use any anonymous data (Bark, Kragt, and Robson 2016). The data that will
be used in this research will be identified before releasing it to researchers. The consent for the
study will also be presumed reasonably.
4.2 Legal: Legal issues states that the journal or the research materials that will be used
in the research is not legal that is those papers and articles are not published. But regarding this
research, no legal issues will be undertaken as the papers and articles those are used in this
research study are legal and authenticated data will only be taken in this research.
4.3 Social: Social issues states any social problems that are carried out in conducting the
research. This research will not include any social problem in the society as there will be not
survey of interview carried out in this research (Ekrot, Kock and Gemünden 2016). Only
secondary data will be included in this research. This research will not have any environmental
impacts as
4.4 Security: Security issues states any invalid information that are used in the research.
In this research no security issues will be included as because all information that will be used to
carry out this research are already being published and no new primary data will be collected to

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carry out this research. This will include datasets that are already being provided by previous
researchers.
4.5 Professional: In professional issues, the research should not include any type of
professional issues while carrying out the research. The research was carried out with
responsibility, as per the engineering standards. The professional aspect of research includes
fulfilling objectives of the university to carry the research.
5. Schedule of activities
5.1 Work Breakdown Structure
Research Schedule
Initial phase
Selecting a
research Topic
Deciding the aim of
research
Detailing the
background of the
research
Conduct Literature
review for proposal
Deciding scope of
the research
Research on the
previous related
work on the
selected topic
Research the
relavance of the
work
Decide the sources
and use of knowledge
in the research
project
Preparing the
project objective
Submit the research
proposal
Conduct Literature
Review
Research the
specific problem
that is being
addresed in the
research
Need to develop
mobile application
with cloud computing
handling accidents
Type of research that
is being carried out
Research on how the
problem area will be
carried out
Documentation for
the research done
Research to address
the area of problem
Research Methodology
Carry out research
methodology
Ethical Issues
Research on legal
Issues
Issues on social
Issues
Issues on security
issues
Professional Issues
Data Analaysis
Carry data analysis
Findings of data
analyzed
Final Project Submission
Including the
references in the
project
Documenting all the
research
Submitting final
research project
Figure 2: Work Breakdown Structure

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(Source: Created by Author)
5.2 Tasks Lists
Task Name
Research Schedule
Initial phase
Selecting a research Topic
Deciding the aim of research
Detailing the background of the research
Conduct Literature review for proposal
Deciding scope of the research
Research on the previous related work on the selected topic
Research the relevance of the work
Decide the sources and use of knowledge in the research project
Preparing the project objective
Submit the research proposal
Conduct Literature Review
Research the specific problem that is being addressed in the research
Need to develop mobile application with cloud computing handling accidents

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Type of research that is being carried out
Research on how the problem area will be carried out
Documentation for the research done
Research to address the area of problem
Research Methodology
Carry out research methodology
Ethical Issues
Research on legal Issues
Issues on social Issues
Issues on security issues
Professional Issues
Data Analysis
Carry data analysis
Findings of data analyzed
Final Project Submission
Including the references in the project

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Documenting all the research
Submitting final research project
Table 1: Task table
(Source: Created by Author)

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5.3 Gantt chart
Figure 3: Gantt chart
(Source: Created by Author)
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7. Appendix