Drowsiness Detection with Alert & Notification System

India is considered to be a developing country, along with development in transportation sectors but road accidents are a major hurdle. According to the Transport Research Wing of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, 2019, India ranks first in the number of road accident deaths across the 199 countries and accounts for almost 11% of the accident-related deaths in the World. Road accidents occur mainly due to poor road conditions, careless driving, and sometimes due to fatigue-related causes like drowsiness while driving. This study mainly focuses on drowsiness detection while driving and a way to prevent accidents. The National Highway Safety Administration reported that drowsy driving results in 1,550 deaths, 71,000 injuries, and more than 100,000 accidents per year. The majority of drivers reported being falling asleep in less than an hour while driving. This could be prevented by monitoring the eye-lid positions of the driver and if it closes for a certain interval of time, an alert system will be invoked alerting the driver to be watchful and along with this emergency contacts of the driver will be notified of this situation.