HP Lubricants and Leo Bernett India has come up with a creative yet simple idea to make the National Highways and tough driving terrains like hills, safer. For this, they have come up with the idea of the anti-collision vehicular management system, that works on the sensors of the speed limits. The plan proposes to install SmartLife poles at the deep cuts or risky U-turns on hills and diversions on highways which would sense the speed and movement of the vehicles approaching, In case, the vehicles are coming from both ways at the sharp cuts and U-turns of the hills, the horn at the poles will communicate the movement of the vehicles with each other via a wireless technology and alert the drivers on both the sides via sensitive radar systems so as to reduce the speed of the vehicles.
For this alert, the poles will transgress electromagnetic wave of 24 GHz frequency range and measure the shift of the reflected electromagnetic wave. The moving vehicles cause the frequency shift which is known as Doppler effect. As the distance between the pole and the vehicle will increase or decrease, the frequency shift also reacts accordingly and this helps to calculate the speed of the vehicle.
The same has already been put on NH1, which has been denoted as one of the world's most dangerous highway connecting Srinagar to Jammu. It has accounted for a significant reduction in the number of accidents that take place on this highway, so the Police department plans to install this setup on more locations very soon. India has one of the largest numbers of deaths that happen due to road accidents, counting to as big as 1 lakh 40 thousand people in the year 2015. Thus, such plans need an execution as the direst need of the hour to provide safe locomotion in our country.
