ADVANCED SAFETY HELMET

Abstract

A helmet is a type of safety helmet used by motorcycle users. Wearing the right helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by up to 70% and reduce the risk of death by up to 40%. For this reason we want to create an "advance safety helmet" which is able to solve problems such as incorrect helmet use among motorcyclists. The objective of this project is to improve the helmet strap such as the addition of a buzzer, and a sensor so that it can give reminders to the user to wear the helmet with the strap properly. However, the main factor of students not wearing helmet straps properly is students tend to forget to wear the helmet. Based on the interview conducted, the percentage rate obtained from students who tend to forget to wear the helmet is 54.20%, which is higher than the percentage rate of them being lazy to wear it, which is 42.40%. In addition, the interview process was conducted among students of the Civil Engineering Department to get the level of practicality and comfort of the user when using the helmet in terms of the effectiveness of warning the wearer. The average from the students answered in survey with a mean score of 3.17. This means that the helmet is able to give a warning to the wearer without affecting their level of comfort. Therefore, with improvements to this project, the level of correct helmet use among students who ride motorcycles can be increased and accidents caused by incorrect helmet use can be reduced.