Smart vehicle antitheft system.

Abstract

A Smart Vehicle Antitheft system is a system that monitors the security of the vehicle with the help of various sensors. This system uses RF technology to send a signal from a car section to the user/owner section in case one of the sensors detects a parameter considered such as touching, lifting, door opening, car motion. This system improves the technology of the existing car alarm systems by using a vibrator and LCD screen to alert the owner in case of car theft. The Information was gathered, consultations made and document reviews, concerning the existing Car alarm systems. The main objective of this study was to design and implement a smart vehicle antitheft system that will prevent Car theft and it was successful. After making analysis of the gathered information development of the smart vehicle antitheft system kicked-off. The following were the major hardware components that were used in this project implementation; ultrasonic sensor, vibration sensor, reedswitch, Halleffect sensor, Arduino microcontroller, vibrator; RF module and many other smaller components like the resistors, LEDs. Transistors etc. The components of the system were tested prior to system testing using a bread board after which were soldered on a copper board. The functionality of the system was under the control of the algorithm/code that was written on the microcontroller. The system was finally subjected to system testing to validate and verify its final working, under the supervision of my project supervisor before presenting to the at Busitema University.