WreckWatch: Automatic traffic accident detection and notification with smartphones

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 285-303

  White, Jules ^a   Thompson, Chris ^b   Turner, Hamilton ^a   Dougherty, Brian ^b   Schmidt, Douglas C ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cyber physical systems; mobile cyber physical systems; smartphones; traffic accident detection

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT DETECTION SYSTEMS; ACOUSTIC DATA; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; CONTEXT DATA; CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; FALSE POSITIVE; FIRST RESPONDERS; FORMAL MODEL; IN-VEHICLE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MORTALITY RATE; NETWORK CONNECTION; NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SMARTPHONES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DETECTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS;

ACCELEROMETERS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETROFITTING; SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 79956154984     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-011-0304-8     Document Type: Article

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