Enhancing rider safety with smart helmets
These days the roads are marked with ‘last mile delivery riders’ who are seen delivering either food or medicines and sometimes even critical documents. They are driving fast, sometimes rashly, as they have tight deadlines to meet and a lot of traffic to beat. The way they manoeuvre their bikes when they are overtaking a big vehicle can be admirable and risky, too! Since such ‘last mile delivery riders’ cover 100 to 150 kms every day it is natural for them to be at great risk of being involved in an accident. Therefore they need to be protected with smart helmet for rider safety , among other sensory-intelligent accessories. Most of the times, smart helmets are called so because they are equipped with a camera, gas detector, high-voltage detector, wireless in-ear microphone, and so on, and on the smart band front side, a camera is attached which allows the control room to see where the rider is heading. BikeKit, one of the major players in the ‘last mile delivery’ segm...