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Abstract

As it is regardless to say, majority of accidents occur due to drunken driving. Driving while intoxicated (DWI) (drunken driving, which means operating under the influence of alcohol, drinking and driving, impaired driving) is the act of driving a motor vehicle with blood levels of alcohol in excess of a legal limit. Though drunken driving is considered to be a criminal offense in most countries, it still remains to be a serious, unavoidable problem. Therefore, a highly efficient system that provides early prevention of drunken drive to protect the public from drunken drive male facts is the current need to society. In this paper, we intend to propose the designed mechanical system that prevents drunken drive and its subsequent catastrophes by monitoring the EEG of the driver. The power of the EEG signal in frontal region(alpha waves) decreases with the increase in the amount of alcohol intake, and the power of the EEG signal in central, occipital region (delta, beta) increases. Therefore, in our paper, we make use of threshold values of alpha, beta and theta waves to differentiate EEG of alcoholic from non-alcoholic. The continuous monitoring the EEG of the driver makes our system highly reliable to prevent drunken drive accidents. Further, in our proposed system, we make use of special indicators called prevention indicator to avoid inconvenience to other drivers and prevent the accidents due to collision of vehicles. Once any evidence of drunk driving is present, SMS which contains the current location of the driver by means of GPS is sent via a GSM module to the police control room. Thus our exemplary system emerges to be a highly efficient and cost effective solution to prevent drunken drive accidents.