Sundargarh: If you get a helmet that will not allow your bike to get started if you consume alcohol and can inform your family in case you meet an accident, wouldn’t you buy it?
With this and some other most useful features, a helmet has been developed. And a youth from a nondescript village who is neither a scientist nor a researcher is able to develop this smart helmet.
Meet Sanjay Nayak, a 27-year-old youth of Darlipali Sahajbahal village in this district.
His invention, called as smart helmet, has many quintessential features the helmet users had been dreaming to get.
An owner of this smart helmet can never start his/her bike until s/he wears the helmets, says Sanjay. If the owner has taken alcohol and wants to start his bike, he won’t able to start the vehicle, he adds.
Other important features are if the owner meets an accident, a message from the owner’s mobile will get automatically delivered to his/her family members’ phones.
The message will be delivered to at least 16 persons who are in the contact list of the user, Sanjay points out.
This helmet is the result of three year long extensive research of Sanjay, who is presently working as a faculty at a Central School in Kanker district in Chhattisgarh.
He says the increasing number of accidents made him to work on this project.
He has fitted so many gadgets including GPS and alcohol sensor. Without wearing this helmet, the owner cannot start his/her bike. If the bike is on start and the wearer puts off the helmet, the engine gets automatically off.
Likewise, if the helmet senses alcoholic smell, the bike will not start. With the GPS fitted with the helmet, one can know the exact location of the wearer. If the wearer meets an accident, message to 16 numbers that are saved in the GPS will be delivered.
If you lend your bike to someone else, the location of the person can also be known, describes Sanjay.
Most importantly, your bike can never be stolen. A thief has to wear this helmet first to steal your bike, he adds.
Sanjay’s helmet was first displayed at a science exhibition organised by Kendriya Viidyalay Sangathan at Durg in Chhattisgarh January 28.
Sanjay says, “I am going to participate at the national level science exhibition of Kendriya Viidyalay Sangathan coming April 10.
After completion of his B Tech in Electrical from Sundargarh Engineering College in 2014, he joined the Central School at Kanke as a teacher.
About the expenses he incurred to get this unique helmet developed, Sanjay says, “I have spent a total of Rs 4, 300.”
“Presently the number of road accidents is found to be increasing. The more vehicles added into the existing traffic, there will be more accidents. And the bikers are the worst sufferer. I am hopeful that my invention will go a long way not only checking accidents but also curbing increasing theft cases,” he says.
If a company comes forward to produce such helmets using his devised technology, it will immensely benefit our bikers, he says, requesting the state and the central governments to take steps to make the helmet available to all.
PNN