Elsys Intelligent Devices
According to Indian Orthopedic Association, the number of accidents for thousand vehicles in India is as high as 35 while the figures range between 4 and 5 in developed countries. The report added that there is one death on the Indian road every six minutes and this is predicted to escalate to one death every three minutes by 2020 if enough initiatives are not undertaken. Along with the lines of India’s governmental and non-governmental projects to curb accidents; Kerala based Elsys Intelligent Devices is also playing its role by offering ‘Raksha SafeDrive’; a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) connected Car device dedicated for Road Emergency Management. It is an independent crash sensing device that fits most vehicles and has no wires to be spliced out from the car sub system during installation. With core expertise in Product Design Engineering, this Thiruvananthapuram based firm’s product- ‘Raksha SafeDrive’ provides expeditious automatic crash notifications within 30 seconds to pre-programmed emergency contacts of the accident victim. 
Providing expeditious crash notifications and assistance using ‘Raksha SafeDrive’
Raksha SafeDrive works by employing advances in Internet of Things and Mobile Technologies. “By connecting to any on-board diagnostics in a car such as a cigarette lighter port, Raksha SafeDrive detects if the vehicle gets
into an accident and automatically transmits messages using GPS location information to our servers and notifications are sent to customers via our servers,” explains Prasad Pillai, Co-Founder & CEO. He is an engineering Professional with over 15 years of experience in Product Development and Testing who founded the company in 2010 with a vision to make ‘SafeDrive’ a major component of every car to minimize road accidents in the future.
Leveraging IoT for Automobile Telematics
IoT has the potential to assist transportation industry in many aspects of safety and security. From safety perspective-accident prevention, crash notification and immediate emergency relief is the most important need of the auto industry now.
IoT enabled device ‘Raksha SafeDrive’ by Elsys Intelligent Devices once mounted in the vehicle, which has inbuilt impact sensors, detect accidents and collect high accuracy location information from onboard GPS. Then this information is processed and transmitted by the SafeDrive device to central office via cellular technologies. “The other products currently available in the market are limited to providing location-tracking features. SafeDrive adds a new spin to this by adding an in-built crash sensing and notification mechanism, “adds Prasad. Raksha SafeDrive also has a one touch panic button and voice identification feature which enables users to call for help by pressing the panic button and be connected to the emergency helpline and speak to a live agent who can assist in an event of emergency.
IoT has apparently become a potential game changer in automobile industry and Raksha SafeDrive intends to participate by adding more features in terms of safety and security of the vehicle and improve our user experience eventually. Elsys Intelligent Devices has plans to come up with pre-accident safety solutions and mobile app for Raksha SafeDrive customers in near future. “Our vision is to usher in a new era of automotive sector and we hope to bring SafeDrive technology to the masses and make impact in tackling road safety issues in India,” ends the CEO.
Leveraging IoT for Automobile Telematics
IoT has the potential to assist transportation industry in many aspects of safety and security. From safety perspective-accident prevention, crash notification and immediate emergency relief is the most important need of the auto industry now.
IoT enabled device ‘Raksha SafeDrive’ by Elsys Intelligent Devices once mounted in the vehicle, which has inbuilt impact sensors, detect accidents and collect high accuracy location information from onboard GPS. Then this information is processed and transmitted by the SafeDrive device to central office via cellular technologies. “The other products currently available in the market are limited to providing location-tracking features. SafeDrive adds a new spin to this by adding an in-built crash sensing and notification mechanism, “adds Prasad. Raksha SafeDrive also has a one touch panic button and voice identification feature which enables users to call for help by pressing the panic button and be connected to the emergency helpline and speak to a live agent who can assist in an event of emergency.
IoT has apparently become a potential game changer in automobile industry and Raksha SafeDrive intends to participate by adding more features in terms of safety and security of the vehicle and improve our user experience eventually. Elsys Intelligent Devices has plans to come up with pre-accident safety solutions and mobile app for Raksha SafeDrive customers in near future. “Our vision is to usher in a new era of automotive sector and we hope to bring SafeDrive technology to the masses and make impact in tackling road safety issues in India,” ends the CEO.
