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Although conventional helmets offer necessary passive structural protection, they do not consider the most important aspect of the emergency response, which is the Golden Hour the time frame during which medical intervention can have the most significant impact. This paper is a development and validation of an autonomous, low-cost smart helmet architecture that is programmed to operate in real-time to detect accidents and autonomously inform the operator of accidents. The system is built up of an ESP32 microcontroller with a multi-modal sensor package, which comprises an inertial measurement unit (IMU), force-impact sensors, and MQ-3 alcohol sensors to conduct proactive safety screening. To overcome the single threshold limitation of unreliable systems, a time-windowed sensor-fusion algorithm was applied in order to distinguish between normal riding dynamics and bona fide collisions. This reasoning involves concurrent cues of high-G inertial rotations and physical impacting features over a time window of 500 ms to reduce spurious activations. The architecture of the system is completely self-sufficient and employs an in-built GPS-GSM module to send the geographical location through SMS without the need to have a smartphone connection. The prototype was also put through 150 experimental tests, with some conducted in laboratories, and real-world running tests in diverse terrains. The findings reveal an accuracy in detection of 93.7, a false positive rate (FPR) of 2.6 and a mean emergency alert latency of 2.8 s. In addition, it was found that structural integrity was confirmed at ECE 22.05 impact conditions using Finite Element Analysis (FEA), with a safety factor of 1.38. These quantitative results mean that the proposed system is an effective way to address a cultural shift between passive structural protection and active rescue intervention as a statistical and computationally efficient safety measure of modern micro-mobility.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jsan15010020","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,13]],"date-time":"2026-02-13T09:09:19Z","timestamp":1770973759000},"page":"20","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Low-Cost Smart Helmet with Accident Detection and Emergency Response for Bike Riders"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Muhammad Irfan","family":"Minhas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Air University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1833-4098","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Imran","family":"Shah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Air University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8099-1606","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yasir","family":"Ali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Aerospace Engineering, College of Aeronautical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Risalpur 24090, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Fawaz Nashmi M","family":"Alhusayni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, Clifton BS8 1TH, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Vashisth, R., Gupta, S., Jain, A., Gupta, S., and Rana, P. 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