DESIGN OF AN EMBEDDED SMART CAR SECURITY USING FINGERPRINT

AND THEFT CONTROL SYSTEM

Manoj Kollam Aruna Kumari Kakumani A.Ramesh kumar

Dept. of Electronics and Assistant Professor Sr. Assistant Professor
Communication Engg., Dept. of Electronics and Dept. Of Electronic and
VNR VJIET, India. Communication Engg., Communication Engg.,
mkollam@gmail.com VNR VJIET, India. VNR VJIET, India.
aruna.kakumani@gmail.com rameshkumar_aytha@yahoo.com

Abstract— This paper deals with the design of an embedded At the time of a car being started, the fingerprint
smart car security and theft control system. The system module checks if the person is authorized or not. If the
efficiently provides security by controlling and preventing the fingerprint is not valid, an alarm or a “silent” alarm will be
theft of a car. It consists of a finger print detection subsystem, triggered according to the user‟s settings. In silent alarm
a GPS (Global Positioning System) module, a GSM (Global
setting, no direct alarm will be triggered, instead, several
System for Mobile Communications) module and a control
platform. The Finger print module verifies whether a person is modules which are working transmits important data such as
authorized to start the car and sounds an alarm loudly or the precise location of the car to the owner and police.
soundlessly in the event of theft. The other modules transmit The GPS module in the security system obtains the
necessary information to users/police and help in constantly precise location of the stolen car by parsing received GPS
monitoring the location of cars at all times, even after the car is signal. The GSM module sends the real-time position of the
stolen. This security and theft control system developed can be stolen car by SMS (Short Message Service) message.
easily implemented in any other automobile. All these processes are controlled by the central
embedded control module, which includes fingerprint
Keywords - biometric (fingerprint); Global System for Mobile
Communication (GSM); Global Positioning System (GPS);
detection system that sounds an alarm, GSM module which
ARM7 (LPC 2148) Microcontroller sends SMS messages of GPS signal and various other
communications with the subsystems in the car.
I. INTRODUCTION
Traditional car security systems rely on many sensors
which are very costly. When a car is really lost or stolen,
usually no feedback is available for the owner to find it.
With the development of many advanced embedded
techniques [1], their applications such as car security system
design and analysis have also improved. Many new
techniques such as biometric recognition techniques, image
processing techniques, communication techniques and so
on, have been integrated into car security systems [2], [3].
However, the number of accidents of cars still remain high,
including the number of cars being stolen [4]. So, there is a
high demand for a practicable car security system which is
efficient, robust and reliable [6].
Fingerprint detection techniques have been heavily
studied in recent years [3]. Many new fast and efficient
finger print detection techniques have been developed to
achieve higher detection rates. Most of the techniques are
tested on PC platforms with several stand-alone fingerprint
or remote non-fingerprint databases. Figure 1. Configuration of the embedded smart car security and theft
control system. The system is divided into 4 main modules: Embedded
We propose to set-up a fast and effective fingerprint control platform with FPR, GPS module and GSM module.
detection technique system in a car security system. It helps
to sound an alarm to alert the owner or the police in the II. FINGER PRINT DETECTION SUBSYSTEM
event of any attempt of theft. It also alerts soundlessly with
The finger print module works on „Immense Improved
the help of other modules in the system prototype.
Algorithm‟. NG OP-67 algorithm is specially written

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according to optic imaging theory. The algorithm is good
even for de-shaped or low-quality fingers due to its
excellent correction and tolerance features.
NG OP-67 Blue backlight fingerprint sensor module
shown in Fig. 2, adopts the optic fingerprint sensor, which
consists of high-performance DSP and flash capabilities. It
is able to perform the operations such as fingerprint image
processing, template generation, template matching,
fingerprint searching, template storage, etc., making its
usage very ease and effective.
A. Fingerprint Algorithm
A Fingerprint algorithm captures the features from
fingerprint image which represents a person‟s fingerprint
information. The saving, matching and capturing of
fingerprint templates are all manipulated through the two
fingerprint features given below:
i) 1:1 Comparing 2 fingerprint templates. Return info:
matching or not matching.
ii) 1:N Searching the matching fingerprint from a number
of fingerprint features. Return info: No matching features
or having matching features and returning the matching
features‟ ID simultaneously.
III. EMBEDDED CONTROL PLATFORM
The embedded control platform is built on ARM7
(LPC2148) [12]. The Philips LPC2148 shown in Fig. 3 is an
ARM7TDMI-S based high-performance 32-bit RISC
Microcontroller with thumb extensions, 512KB on-chip
flash ROM with in-System Programming (ISP) and in-
Application Programming (IAP), 32KB RAM, two 10-bit
ADCs with 14 channels, USB 2.0 Full Speed Device
Controller, two UARTs, one with full modem interface, two
I2C serial interfaces, two SPI serial interfaces, two 32-bit
timers, Watchdog Timer, PWM unit, Real Time Clock with
optional battery backup, Brown out detect circuit, General
purpose I/O pins, CPU clock up to 60 MHz, On-chip crystal
Figure 2. NG OP-67 Fingerprint Module
Figure 3. ARM7 (LPC2148) Board
oscillator and On-chip PLL Vectored Interrupt Controller,
ESRAM and 64KB RAM which of quite large capacity in
embedded world to store the most important code. We
collect statistics to pick those kernel functions out by profile
tools contained in ARM Emulator (the instruction set
simulator of ARM Co.), then put them into ESRAM when
running, by one scattered-loading file which guides the
ARMCC (ARM compiler tool) to compile corresponding
files with special memory address and whole project
program is compiled into AXF (ARM executable File)
format. During the boot process of the program, several
assembly codes produced by ARMCC will copy those
special codes to special addresses. These kernel codes will
be stored in ESRAM and can be accessed quickly.
Consequently, the performance of the system will be
improved greatly.
B. Process control
Embedded control platform is an embedded system
board, which contains ARM processor chip, memory,
outside interface modules and so on. Embedded control
platform controls the following processes:
1. Obtaining finger print from FPR
2. Detecting finger prints
3. Getting and handling the data from GPS module.
4. Sending messages by GSM module
5. Controlling Ignition
IV. GPS MODULE
GPS technique has been widely used both in military
equipment as well as civil devices in recent years. We
choose Jupiter TU30 GPS module (Fig. 4) to offer the
location of the car in real-time. TU30 has a UART
(Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter), which can
be used to communicate with many other embedded
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devices. It is easy to get a serial of char from TU30 at 9600
bps speed from
Figure 4. GPS module
Figure 5. GSM module (SIM 300)
Figure 6. Security and Theft controlling unit
the UART interface. After parsing the string, longitude,
latitude, and speed of the car can be obtained to judge the
precise location of the car.
V. GSM MODULE
To achieve important information of cars, one GSM
module is added into the car security system. SIM300 GSM
modem (Fig. 5) can quickly send SMS messages to
appointed mobile phone or SMS server. So the owner and
the police can be informed about the information of the
stolen car.
VI. RESULTS
The designed & developed system (Fig. 6) is installed
in the car. An interface of Fingerprint module, GPS and
GSM modems is also connected to the microcontroller,
which is in turn connected to the engine. When a car is
being started, the finger print module checks if the person is
authorized or not. The module is shown in Fig. 7. If the
authentication fails the GSM modem sends SMS to
predefined number. The SMS contains longitude and
latitude of the car as shown in the Fig. 8. The car can also
be stopped by sending SMS to the GSM modem present in
the car. After receiving the SMS, microcontroller present in
the car makes the engine immobilize. Fig. 9 shows this
stopped status on the LCD display present on the kit.
If the vehicle is stolen, the information can be obtained
by the car owner for further processing. The information is
passed onto the central processing insurance system where,
by sitting at a remote place, a particular phone number is
dialled by them to the interfacing mobile that is with the
hardware kit installed in the car. By reading the signals
received by the mobile, one can control the ignition of the
engine; say to lock it or to stop the engine immediately (Fig.
9). When the car is stolen, owner of car will stop the stolen
car by just sending an SMS to the SIM present in the car.
The location of the stolen car will then be sent to a
predefined number and to the local police. The SMS sent
also stops the car from moving further.
Figure 7. Fingerprint checking.
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Figure 8. Received SMS displaying GPS coordinated of the Vehicle.
Figure 9. Display indicating that vehicle has been immobilized
VII. CONCLUSION
If vehicle is to be started, the finger print module
checks whether the person is authorized or not. If the finger
print is not valid, SMS is sent with the help GSM to the
predefined number (Fig. 7).The proposed system for finding
the robbed vehicles would act as a benchmark for rendering
an effective way of curbing the automobile pilfering. As the
electronic system installed in the system consists of GPS, it
provides effective vehicle tracking and also, the GSM
modem which is being used, provides a good global
communication.
This system is highly reliable. Since GSM is used, there
is an advantage of more stable network with robust features
and covers mostly all parts of the world. The owner need
not rely on any alarm system or a mechanical device which
may be easily hotwired or broken. We strongly feel that the
system would be a landmark in both technological as well as
social excellence.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We sincerely express our gratitude to Dr. P. Srihari
(ECE-HOD of VNRVJIET) and Dr. C. D. Naidu (Principal
of VNRVJIET) for their constant guidance, encouragement
and valuable advice.
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