Team members:
- Benjamin Baker
- Lisa Furnish
- Chris Klepac
- Benjamin Mauser
- Zachary Miers
Our project will be a "black-box" system for a car, utilizing four cameras to provide a view of all sides of the vehicle. In the event of an accident, a visual record of the seconds leading up to the accident will be stored, enabling the user to determine who was at fault in the accident, as well as a record of the car at fault in the event of a hit-and-run.
The four CCD cameras will be positioned on each side of the car, and will take a still picture at a specified time increment. (If possible, we would like to use video, but it may not be possible to store/process that volume of data reasonably.) The data from each camera will be stored for a specified value of time -- for example, 10 seconds. This constantly-updating data will be stored in memory for upload and analysis.
A three axis accelerometer will be used to determine if an accident occurs. When the accelerometer reaches a certain set level, the cameras will stop taking new pictures, preserving the last ten seconds of data from each camera.