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This paper presents an alarm system for pedestrian safety against hybrid vehicle/PHEV/EV on minor roads. Recently, the interest and production of the hybrid/PHEV/EV vehicles have been rising in the automobile market, and a number of such vehicles are already driving on the road. One of their salient features is that they are very quiet and the exhaust sound is scarcely audible. So the pedestrians on minor roads are difficult to recognize those vehicles when the vehicles are coming behind them. This situation has emerged as a serious problem in the matter of ensuring the safety of pedestrians. Therefore the alarm system to notify the approaching vehicles to pedestrians on minor roads should be developed. The proposed alarm system in this paper informs pedestrians with a vibration or sound through the smartphone when the vehicles are closing in to the pedestrians from behind on minor roads. And this alarm network system consists of a few smart access agents, some smartphones and RFID tags that are equipped with the vehicles. The smart access agent recognizes the direction of driving vehicles on minor roads and informs it to the pedestrian’s smartphone, and the RFID tag equipped with vehicles sends an approaching signal to the smartphone. Thus, the proposed alarm system concept can support the pedestrians’ safety on minor roads against hybrid vehicle/PHEV/EV simply and effectively.