Vehicle Theft Detection System
Vehicle theft has increased in recent years. These vehicles may incur huge losses on the amount invested on them. Over 5 vehicles which were reported as stolen every hour in Delhi. Total 44,158 vehicle theft cases were reported in 2018 against 39,084 such cases in 2017. So it’s necessary to create such a system that will prevent the vehicle theft. The main intention of the system is to prevent the vehicle from getting stolen and if it is then find out exact location of the stolen vehicle and inform it to the concerned authority. The system consists of a microcontroller, a GSM module, GPS module, NFC, force resistive sensors, vibration sensor and many other sensors used for theft detection. With the help of these sensors microcontroller will decide whether the vehicle or its spare parts are getting stolen or not. Like when thieves try to steal the wheels of the car, the load on the force resistive sensors is decreased, hence increasing there resistance. Whenever a theft is detected by the system, the alarm will be buzzed till either the authenticated owner of the vehicle doesn’t assure vehicle’s safety or the battery of the vehicle doesn’t die. The system will work integratedly with ECU and ECM of the vehicle. The cars lack these facility will be provided with custom solution where near field communication will be used for authentication purpose. In case when the vehicle got stolen, the system retrieves exact location of vehicle from GPS which is fed to a microcontroller. Microcontroller interfaced with GSM modem sends the information to the owner of the vehicle by an SMS. The vehicle owner is also able to turn off the engine by sending back an SMS. Whenever the GSM modem receives a message from a particular mobile number, microcontroller will trigger a switch which will then turn off the engine.
