Anti Theft System Using I2C Inertial MEMS Sensor and ZigBee Using Controller
Anti Theft System Using I2C Inertial MEMS Sensor and ZigBee Using Controller
Abstract:
As modern electronic goods such as computers, mobile phones, portable players, laptops and palmtops are becoming smaller and more sophisticated, they can be more easily targeted for theft in the home and business environment. Many present protection systems are done with mechanical (mercury) switches which initiate an alarm when a certain preset level of motion is detected. These units are bulkier and it cannot be easily integrated with the existing compact electronic systems. This project overcomes the drawbacks of present systems. It takes advantage of the dramatic advances in micro machined semiconductor product technology and employs a tri axis micro machined accelerometer integrated on a chip which is mounted into the system to be protected. MEMS accelerometer can sense motion on all the 3 axes. To lock the system, the user must keep the device in rest state (independent of position and direction) and press the lock button. Firmware being executed on the microcontroller captures the rest position of the system on all 3 axes (x, y and z) and stores it in a non-volatile memory and enters into the lock state. It continuously translates the acceleration detected and determines whether the movement/displacement conditions have been exceeded on all 3 axes. Any movement in an unauthorized way initiates a sequence of events. Alert a control unit at a remote location through a zigbee wireless modem Disable further operation of the system Audible alert through a buzzer or siren. The system remains in this state until the remote control unit transmits an emergency password which must match the 10 digit device identification number stored in the nonvolatile memory space. Anti theft system is implemented for an innovative device that acts as city road guiding equipment. The device aims at informing people about the city bus numbers for the places they wish to go. A unique code number has been assigned to all the places in a city. The user simply enters the two digit number, using the keypad, that represents the destination place and our system, in response, provides the information of all the bus numbers available for that particular destination. The database is stored in the external memory chip. The entire system is based on the Master-Slave architecture of I2C network. The I2C network consists of PIC microcontroller which acts as the bus master and all other nodes viz. MEMS accelerometer, serial EEPROM memory, serial LCD display acting as slave devices.