Vareek Bhai

I N D N 2 1 2Product Based Design

Project Two - Design for the real world

Idea Development

For my design I want to have sensors through the steering wheel which will continuously reading your pulse and heart beat, 

"Dr. K. Krauchi, in a study reported in "Neuropsychopharmacology" (2001), detected an average drop from 64 to 52 beats per minute, about 8 percent, by the end of his subjects' gradual sleep onset. He also reported that the mere signaling of "lights out" to subjects started the drop. Researchers at the Abramson Center for Medical Physics at Tel Aviv University in Isreal, in 2006, discovered that during sleep onset your body transitions between two different physiological states. Nerves that slow your heart are activated during sleep onset and nerves that speed your heart are suppressed.
Subtracting 8 percent from your awake-resting heart rate approximates the drop that will begin at lights off and continue until you reach light, continuous sleep"

Retrived from: http://www.livestrong.com/article/105256-normal-heart-rate-sleeping/#ixzz2fsAQiiY3

As stated above it is proven that your heart rate drops as you fall asleep, when the sensors sense the heart rate of the driver dropping dramatically below a certain point the sensors will communicate with an arduino chip and activate the lights and alarm to bring the driver out of sleep and to pull over and take a nap before continuing. 

 

Above I have an image of the arduino chip and the sensor purposely made for arduino which I will use numerous sensors around the steering wheels to capture the pulse of the driver to read any drops in the pulse and if there is a drop it will tell the chip to activate the alarm and laser. 

In this image I found a cross section of a steering wheel and marked out in red where the sensors would lye thought the circular piece of the steering wheel. 

In this image I displayed in red the area which displays where the sensors will be located through the steering wheel, showing that all of the steering wheel will be able to recognize your pulse making it more read able and safer and functional.