DETECTION OF AUTOMOBILE THEFT AND ENGINE LOCKING USING ARDUINO

Vehicle theft is a common issue which is ubiquitous, irrespective of the location. The main objective of this entire system is to ameliorate the safety of the vehicles and truncate the thefts at insecure parking places. This system can be installed in any car or bike, but the main objective of this system is to prevent the theft of low end cars, which dominate the market in most of the countries. The main feature which makes it preferable is its low cost (around 50$) and can be used by any leading manufacturer of cars or bikes. There is a paucity of secure parking spaces in many neighborhoods, so a lot of cars are usually parked on the side streets and some insecure parking places, which makes it very easy target for the thieves. This system is designed and developed to reduce the amount of vehicle thefts at such places, usually for the low end cars and the bikes which do not come with any theft prevention system.. This system can be installed in the vehicle and would be helpful in tracking it. If there is a notification of theft, then subsequently the theft can be averted. The user would be notified through a text message as soon as there is a theft, then the user can send back a uniquely configured passkey, which would lock the engine and send back the co-ordinates of the place where the engine got locked. Hence we can get back our vehicle easily. The system is designed using Arduino platform which is interfaced with GSM, GPS, RFID modules