A Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Detection and Warning System for Vulnerable Road Users in the Blind Spot of Vehicles

Blind spot road accidents are a frequently occurring problem. Every year, several deaths are caused by this phenomenon, even though a lot of money is invested in raising awareness and in the development of prevention systems. In this paper, a blind spot detection and warning system is proposed, rely...

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Autores principales: De Raeve, Nick, de Schepper, Matthias, Verhaevert, Jo, Van Torre, Patrick, Rogier, Hendrik
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32403228
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092727
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author De Raeve, Nick
de Schepper, Matthias
Verhaevert, Jo
Van Torre, Patrick
Rogier, Hendrik
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Verhaevert, Jo
Van Torre, Patrick
Rogier, Hendrik
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description Blind spot road accidents are a frequently occurring problem. Every year, several deaths are caused by this phenomenon, even though a lot of money is invested in raising awareness and in the development of prevention systems. In this paper, a blind spot detection and warning system is proposed, relying on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless communication. The received RSSI samples are threshold-filtered, after which a weighted average is computed with a sliding window filter. The technique is validated by simulations and measurements. Finally, the strength of the proposed system is demonstrated with real-life measurements.
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spelling pubmed-72489762020-06-10 A Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Detection and Warning System for Vulnerable Road Users in the Blind Spot of Vehicles De Raeve, Nick de Schepper, Matthias Verhaevert, Jo Van Torre, Patrick Rogier, Hendrik Sensors (Basel) Article Blind spot road accidents are a frequently occurring problem. Every year, several deaths are caused by this phenomenon, even though a lot of money is invested in raising awareness and in the development of prevention systems. In this paper, a blind spot detection and warning system is proposed, relying on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless communication. The received RSSI samples are threshold-filtered, after which a weighted average is computed with a sliding window filter. The technique is validated by simulations and measurements. Finally, the strength of the proposed system is demonstrated with real-life measurements. MDPI 2020-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7248976/ /pubmed/32403228 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092727 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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De Raeve, Nick
de Schepper, Matthias
Verhaevert, Jo
Van Torre, Patrick
Rogier, Hendrik
A Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Detection and Warning System for Vulnerable Road Users in the Blind Spot of Vehicles
title A Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Detection and Warning System for Vulnerable Road Users in the Blind Spot of Vehicles
title_full A Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Detection and Warning System for Vulnerable Road Users in the Blind Spot of Vehicles
title_fullStr A Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Detection and Warning System for Vulnerable Road Users in the Blind Spot of Vehicles
title_full_unstemmed A Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Detection and Warning System for Vulnerable Road Users in the Blind Spot of Vehicles
title_short A Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Based Detection and Warning System for Vulnerable Road Users in the Blind Spot of Vehicles
title_sort bluetooth-low-energy-based detection and warning system for vulnerable road users in the blind spot of vehicles
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32403228
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092727
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