Trailer container lock monitoring system.

Abstract

Most of the time individuals or companies ship luggage from overseas to their native countries. Most of the luggage is put in a container which is normally transported at the back of a trailer to its destination place in their country. Some of the containers have fallen off the back of a trailer destroying the property inside, killing people outside, damaging the road among many other losses that happen. The driver of the trailer does not intend for this to happen but due to lack of a real time monitoring system of the container locks such accidents which would be avoided are still happening. This project was therefore designed to come up with a real time monitoring system that reports the status of the trailer container lock at all times. Since most of these containers fall off without proper knowledge of thc driver this system solves that problem. It is specific on a trailer that is carrying one container with four locks. This projects looks at two scenarios before the Trailer has started and after it has started and it is moving. Before the Trailer can start if all the trailer locks are locked then the Trailer will start, if any of the locks are open a buzzer is sounded then the specific locks which are opened are displayed on the screen, the Trailer will not start. When the Trailer has started and any of the locks are opened a buzzer is sounded then the specific locks which are opened are displayed on the screen, the Trailer keeps moving without switching off the engine. This report is arranged in six chapters Chapter one having Introduction about the project, Problem statement, Objectives (General and Specific), Justification, Scope (content and time), Chapter Two having the li terature review having anal ysis of existing systems and their weaknesses, Chapter Three consists of the methodology of the project. The methodology includes Requirements gathering methods, requirements analysis, and system design, implementation of the design and testing, Chapter Four is made up of the system analysis and design. This involves functional and requirements analysis along with the system design which has diagrammatic representations of the system in form of the flowchart and Schematic diagram, Chapter Five is titled implementation and testing, this involves the details on how the prototype was implemented using the various development environments interlinked, and how the prototype was tested and validated to ensure optimal performance and accuracy. Chapter Six tables down the discussions, summary of the work done in developing the system, critical