User research
November 2016, A close friend met a road accident and nobody came to help until he moved and started asking for help. This incident made me introspect and ask myself if I'm applying my engineering skills to help people.
Team: Prateek Kumar, Debadri Das, Shashank Shivam
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Individual role: Electronics subsystem testing and design, Component selection, PCB designing, Prototyping low fidelity and high fidelity hardware models.
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A life is lost every 4 minutes due to fatal road accidents in India. People refrain from helping the injured due to legal hassles. As a result, many lives are lost even without receiving the first response.
Motobuddy is a companion device that detects accidents and reports the location and severity to registered contacts as well as first response teams.
*PCB Design in image for reference only, actual PCB may differ
GPS Equipped
Motobuddy sends the accident location to registered devices
Patent Pending accident detection system eliminates false positives like immediate breaking
Lights for increased visibility during night time
Raised seed funding
Market Research
Two-wheelers are the biggest contributors to road accidents in India (31.5%)
This is backed by India's extremely high motorization growth each year. Each year 30 million helmets are required in India. This made me curious to explore the helmet or safety gear space.
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Process
Ideation
Low Fidelity Mockup
Sensor selection and testing
V1: Testing sensor accuracy and allocating weight to sensor values
V2: Added Wifi for remote testing and ride analytics
V3: Reduced the overall size of the system, added battery management components
Works-like Prototype
