Introduction

More than a century has passed since Alphonse Bertillon first conceived and then industriously practiced the idea of using body measurements for solving crimes (Rhodes, 1956). Just as his idea was gaining popularity, it faded into relative obscurity by a far more significant and practical discovery of the distinctiveness of the human fingerprints. In 1893, the Home Ministry Office, UK, accepted that no two individuals have the same fingerprints. Soon after this discovery, many major law enforcement departments embraced the idea of first booking the fingerprints of criminals, so that their records are readily available and later using leftover fingerprint smudges (latent), they could determine the identity of criminals. These agencies sponsored a rigorous study of fingerprints, developed scientific methods for visual matching of fingerprints and strong programs/cultures for training fingerprint experts, and applied the art of fingerprint recognition for nailing down the perpetrators (Scott (1951) and Lee and Gaensslen(2001)).[1] Furthermore, demands imposed by the painstaking attention needed to visually match the fingerprints of varied qualities, tedium of the monotonous nature of the work, and increasing workloads due to a higher demand on fingerprint recognition services, all prompted the law enforcement agencies to initiate research into acquiring fingerprints through electronic media and automate fingerprint recognition based on the digital representation of fingerprints. These efforts led to development of Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) over the past few decades. [1] With the growth of technology, finger print identification for security purpose comes to be realized as solution to the problems related to thieves.

Statement of problem
The use of access denial" secure storage for medications, jewelry, weapons, documents, and other valuable or potentially harmful items is hot issue at this time . Due to the use of keys which can be copied anywhere and anytime, the security of Automobiles in our country is not promising like other countries. Even most of owners doesnt use alarm system for their automobile. This helps thieves to prepare master key which starts the any engines easily make them free to robe any material from the stolen car. Having a lot of materials lost from them, most stolen cars are recorded to be found at far place from their owners home.to avoid this problem this project aims to design a system which uses finger print of the owner as the starting mechanism for the engine of the car.

Purpose of the project

Fingerprint recognition technology allows access to only those whose fingerprints you choose. It contains all the necessary electronics to allow you to store, delete, and verify fingerprints with just the touch of a button. Stored fingerprints are retained even in the event of complete power failure or battery damage. These eliminates the need for keeping track of keys or remembering a combination password, or PIN. The system under control can only be accessed when an authorized user is present, since there are no keys or combinations to be copied or stolen, or locks that can be picked. After the implementation of this project we could remove the use of keys for the ignition system of the cars. The project will possibly help owners of cars to be safe even from their child and family.

System Description
The finger print based ignition system consists the following hard ware components shown below. The programming language used for this project is an assembly language. [2] Microcontroller 16x2 LCD Finger print DSP module Power supply unit Key pad Ignition system The above components are connected using the block diagram as shown below;

LCD DISPLAY

Key pad

Power Supply section

Microcontroller

Ignition system

Finger print DSP module

Fig 1 showing the block diagram of Finger Print Based Ignition System The key pad in the above block diagram is used to order commands add finger print, delete finger print and identify finger print. These three commands are directly send to the microcontroller unit ordering it to do the tasks. Finger print DSP module is the part which is necessary to scan finger print and does all the image processing phase that are necessary before the data is feed to the microcontroller. The microcontroller unit based on the commend it receives, operates different function. The major function of the microcontroller unit is to add the data that comes from the finger print DSP module, to

delete finger print data that were stored before and to identify finger print found in the stored memory of the microcontroller.by doing this when a finger print if matched microcontroller sends a signal to the ignition system. The LCD module is used to display the messages that the operations are done or not. The components available in our school to accomplish this project include microcontroller and LCD module, ignition system from mechanical shop. In addition to this two softwares Edsim51 and PROTUS professional are used for simulation purpose. The rest of the components including the DSP module should be purchased to fulfill the overall requirement.

Methodology of the project

The methodology used for the accomplishment of this project starts from identification and understanding of the hard ware parts of the overall system. This includes detail understanding of the operation of the each hard ware materials. After the accomplishment of this task the next step is assembly language study and coding phase. Most of the project work time is spent in this phase. The last step in this project is simulation and possibly implementation of the system. The final result is judged based on this phase. This includes the document preparation and final defense.

Time Frame for the Work

Amount of time devoted for this project is nine weeks. Within this time the work plan is as follow
Activities march 2012 April 2012 may 2012 June 2012

Proposal set up and defense Detail study on the Hard ware parts of the overall system and getting information how they operates Study of the assembly programming language and some simulators Coding and simulation of the overall system Purchasing hard ware materials implementation Final document preparation, submission and Presentation

Table 1 work plan for the project

Project cost estimation

The project includes hard ware materials, transportation and stationary costs. These costs are presented in the tables shown below.

Hard ware cost

Devices Quantity UNIT PRICE(birr) MICROCONTROLLER 1 17 .00 SM-630 Fingerprint 1 2682.04 DSP module LCD display module Universal Buzzer 12 Volt
Converter Dc/Dc Reg 5v

TOTAL PRICE (birr) 17 .00 2682.04 104.02 277.22 157.94 114.08 3000.00

1 1 1 2 -

104.02 277.22 157.94 57.04 -

BC547 TRANSITORS Total Shipping cost

Stationary Material Cost

ITEM A-4 SIZE PAPER PRINTING AND COPY QTY 2 UNIT PRICE 80 TOTAL PRICE (birr) 160.00 200 .00

Transportation and Cost

Place round trip cost(birr)
From Bahir Dar To Addis Abeba

Number of round trip 2

Total cost(birr) 1000.00

500

Total cost break down

The overall estimated cost is shown below on the table Type Transportation cost Stationary cost Hard ware `Material cost Total cost
Contingency Cost (15 % of total cost) Total overall cost

Cost(birr ) 1000.00 360.00 6352.30 7695.30 1156.49 8851.79

Reference
[1] D. Maltoni, D. Maio, A.K. Jain, S. Prabhakar Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition Springer, New York, 2003 [2] A Prototype of a Fingerprint Based Ignition Systems in Vehicles European Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-216X Vol.62 No.2 (2011), pp. 164-171 Euro Journals Publishing, Inc. 2011http://www.eurojournals.com/ejsr.htm

Table of Contents
Abstract ................................................................................................................................ I Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 1 Statement of problem .......................................................................................................... 2 Purpose of the project ......................................................................................................... 2 System Description ............................................................................................................. 3 Methodology of the project ................................................................................................. 4 Time Frame for the Work ................................................................................................... 5 Project cost estimation ........................................................................................................ 6 Hard ware cost ................................................................................................................ 6 Stationary Material Cost ................................................................................................. 6 Transportation and Cost .................................................................................................. 6 Total cost break down ..................................................................................................... 7 Reference ............................................................................................................................ 8