HARDWARE DESIGN FOR IOT BASED VEHICLE TRACKING AND THEFT DETECTION SYSTEM THROUGH SMS ALERT

Abstract

Nowadays everyone places a premium on the safety of their automobile. Hundreds of cars are stolen from a city 
every day. A mechanism to prevent car theft is essential. To ensure that an effective vehicle tracking system is 
developed and deployed, allowing for the monitoring of the whereabouts of any fitted vehicle at any time and 
from any location. The proposed solution made effective use of the common practice of integrating a 
microcontroller with a Smart phone app. Among the most prevalent methods for tracking vehicles is with the 
help of a device installed in the vehicle, and this one uses GPS and GSM/GPRS technology to do it. The GPS 
module is used by the vehicle's system to obtain GPS coordinates at predetermined intervals. The vehicle's 
location is sent to and updated from a server via the GSM/GPRS module. In addition, we create a smart phone 
app to track the car in real-time. The Smart phone app utilizes the Google Maps API to plot the location of the 
vehicle on the map. Therefore, customers will be able to track a moving car in real-time via their smart phones, 
calculating how far away from their destination it is and how long it will take the vehicle to get there. In order to 
complete the operation, the system utilizes both RFID technology and biometrics. The system takes a picture of 
the guest and checks the database for a match when the RFID reader at the hostel's entry reads a number. 
Suspicious individuals can be apprehended in this fashion.