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ISSN: 2278-0181
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Anti-Theft Control System

Ranjith H D Anusha B
ECE Department ECE Department
Mangalore institute of technology and engineering Mangalore institute of technology and engineering
Mangalore, India Mangalore, India

Arfha Fathima Fathima Muhammed Iqbal

ECE Department ECE Department
Mangalore institute of technology and engineering Mangalore institute of technology and engineering
Mangalore, India Mangalore, India

Hafeeza Jinan
ECE Department
Mangalore institute of technology and engineering Mangalore, India

Abstract— Theft security of vehicle in common parking systems. These anti-theft- control systems are very
places has become a matter of concern. An efficient expensive, but this project is designed cost-effectively
automotive security system is implemented for anti-theft by using a microcontroller along with the GSM [1].
using a microcontroller with Global System for Mobile GSM system is also installed in the vehicle for sending
Communication (GSM). This proposed work is an attempt the information to the owner of the vehicle. The main
to design and develop a smart anti-theft system. The purpose is to prevent vehicle theft. This is achieved
system contains GSM module, vibration sensor, DC motor, by sending an SMS which is generated automatically.
keypad, LCD display and relay. It uses GSM module to
send the SMS to the authorized user. The vibration sensor
This SMS is then sent to the owner of the
senses the insertion of key and triggers the microcontroller. vehicle. Thus in this way crimes can be reduced to a
an SMS is sent to the user. The user enters the password great extent as vehicles today are being stolen in large
using keypad which is displayed in LCD. If the password is number. Hence, vehicles today require high security
wrong the relay is used to turn off the engine. which can be achieved with the help of this application.
When a person tries to steal the vehicle, the
Keywords— Microcontroller 8051, GSM, Buzzer, microcontroller is interrupted and the command is
Vibration Sensor sent to the GSM modem to send SMS. This GSM
modem is interfaced to the microcontroller. This
I. INTRODUCTION microcontroller on the receipt of the message uses a
As far as vehicle security is concerned many mechanism that helps to stop the engine. Motor is
options are available depending upon the technology being used in this project in order to indicate vehicle
being adopted. With the development and applications ON/OFF state. Further enhancement can be done to
of lots of embedded techniques, car security system this project by using a GPS system that helps to find
design and analyses are continually improving. Many out the exact position of the vehicle with the help of
new techniques, such as biometric recognition its latitude and longitude which then can be sent to
technique, image processing technique, communication the owner of the vehicle via SMS [2].
technique and so on, have been included into car An idea of using microcontroller, as the core and
security systems. At the same time, the amount of GSM
accident of cars still remains high, specially, lost.
Statistics show that the number of cars is growing
rapidly and so is the number of car theft attempts, interface through the serial port in the microcontroller is
locally and internationally. Although there are a batch the major functional unit of the system. Loud sound and
of car security systems that had been produced lately, message sending, which brings the notice of the owner. A
but the result is still unsatisfactory as the number of car keypad and a display is provided inside the vehicle. The
commercially available anti-theft vehicular systems are
theft cases still increases. The thieves are inventing
very expensive. Here a modest attempt is made to design
cleverer and stronger stealing techniques that need extra
and develop a simple, low cost vehicle theft control
powerful security systems.
scheme using an inbuilt microcontroller. This scheme
This proposed project presents an anti-theft-control
involves a microcontroller and a mobile for the
system for automobiles that tries to stop a vehicle
communication purposes.
from being stolen. In present days, vehicle theft is
An Embedded chip that uses vibration sensor which
increasing rapidly and people have started using anti-
senses the key during insertion. This is followed by the
theft-control systems in different automobiles‟
system present in the car asking the user to enter a

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correct password. The password consists of few deactivate the mechanism. This technique helps in
characters and the car key number. If the user fails to taking fast steps towards an attempt to steal the. The
enter the password in three trials the message is sent to design is robust and simple.
the owner about the unauthorized usage. The authors Wan Lili and Chen Tiejun proposed an
automotive remote alarm system. GSM module is
combined with microcontroller; vibration sensor and
I. LITERATURE REVIEW speed sensor are used to achieve Short Message Service
(SMS) alarm and dual theft-proof of automobile. The
In today‟s world, since there is an increase in shortcoming of traditional systems including low
vehicles on the road, so there is an increase in vehicle security and small alarming range is overcome, and
theft. In order to reduce that, users tend to install high- the cost of this system is cut down, so it should
end, expensive, state of the art anti-theft systems. The have good application prospects as mentioned in the
proposed project tries to increase the efficiency and 2009 paper [4],.
decrease the cost so that vehicle safety is available to all. The authors Ms.Padmaja Adgulwar, Prof. Nilesh
The author Wu Aiping, the author puts forward an Chaubey and Prof.Shyam P Dubey proposed in the
idea of using microcontroller in the 2017 paper [1], as paper 2007 [5], that in current years, automobile theft
the core and GPS and GSM interfaced through the serial are growing at an disturbing rate throughout the
port in the micro- controller. However, the system is world. Commercially present anti-theft vehicular
loud sound and light which brings the notice of the systems are too costly. We mark a modest effort to
owner and also shares the location of the car if it has design & develop a low cost, simple vehicle theft
moved. The aim is to find the vehicle where it is and control scheme using an integral microcontroller. The
also you can stop that particular vehicle by sending a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is
message. A keypad and a display is provided inside the most popular standard for mobile phones in the
the vehicle. Using that we can switch on and switch world. This system involves a microcontroller & a
off the vehicle. And also we can track the vehicle mobile for the communication purposes.
using this GSM modem. If the wrong password is
entered, then the location of the vehicle is tracked by II. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
the GPS module and the message will be send to the
owner of the vehicle. A. 8051 Microcontroller with AT89S52
The authors Kompalli supriya and
M.Venkateshwarlu, in the July 2015 paper [2] have
mentioned that in recent years, vehicle thefts are
increasing at an alarming rate around the world.
People have started to use the theft control systems
installed in their vehicles. The commercially available
anti- theft vehicular systems are very expensive. Here,
we make a modest attempt to design & develop a
simple, low cost vehicle theft control scheme using an
inbuilt microcontroller. This scheme involves a
microcontroller & a mobile for the communication
purposes.
Vinoth Kumar Sadagopan, Upendran Rajendran Fig 1: Microcontroller with AT89S52
and Albert Joe Francis, proposed an embedded chip that The AT89S52 comes from the popular 8051
uses vibration sensor, which senses the key during family of Atmel Microcontrollers. It is an 8-bit CMOS
insertion and sends a text message to the owner‟s microcontroller with 8K as Flash memory and 256
mobile stating that the car is being accessed in the 2011 bytes of RAM. Since it is similar to the trust worthy
paper [3],. This is followed by the system present in 8051 architecture these microcontrollers are as per
the car asking the user to enter a unique password. industry standard. It has 32 I/O pins comprising of
The password consists of few characters/ numbers. If three 16-bit timers, external interrupts, full- duplex
the user fails to enter the correct password in serial port, on-chip oscillator and clock circuitry.
Most of the ports of the 89S52 have 'dual function'
three trials, a text message is sent to the police with the
vehicle number and the location tracked using a GPS meaning that they can be used for two different functions.
module. The message is also sent to the owner The Microcontroller development board is shown in Fig 1
about the unauthorized usage. Further the fuel injector with the IC AT89S52. The first one is to perform
of the car is deactivated so that the user cannot start input/output operations and the second one is used to
the car by any means. At the same time a secret lock implement special features of the microcontroller like
system gets activated and the unauthorized user gets counting external pulses, interrupting the execution of
trapped inside the car and only the owner who is the program according to external events, performing
equipped with the key to the secret lock system can serial data transfer or connecting the chip to a computer

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to update the software. D. SIM 800 GSM Module

B. Vibration Sensor

Fig 4: SIM 800 GSM module

The SIM800 is a complete Quad-band

Fig 2: Vibration sensor GSM/GPRS solution in a SMT module which can be
embedded in the customer applications. Featuring an
The Vibration module based on the vibration sensor industry-standard interface, the SIM800 delivers
SW- 420 and Comparator LM393 to detect if there is any GSM/GPRS 850/ 900 /1800/ 1900 MHz performance
vibration that beyond the threshold. The threshold can for voice, SMS, Data, and Fax in a small form factor
be adjusted by the on-board potentiometer. When this and with low power consumption. With a tiny
no vibration, this module output logic is LOW and the configuration of 24mm x 24mm x 3 mm, SIM800 can fit
signal indicates LED light, and vice versa. If the module almost all the space requirements in your M2M
does not vibrate the vibration switch was closed on application, especially for slim and compact demand of
state and it turns on green light. When the product design [6]. Fig 4 shows the GSM module of SIM800.
vibrates vibration switch momentary disconnects and
output is driven high and it turns off green light. In Fig E. DC Motor
2 the module of vibration sensor is shown.

C. LCD

Fig 5: DC Motor

Fig 3: Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screen The DC motor device converts DC electrical
energy into a mechanical energy. DC or direct current
LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is an electronic motor works on the principal, when a current
display module and find a wide range of applications. A carrying conductor is placed in a magnetic field; it
16x2 LCD display is very basic module and is very experiences a torque and has a tendency to move. This
commonly used in various devices and circuits. These is known as motoring action. If the direction of
modules are preferred over seven segments and other current in the wire is reversed, the direction of rotation
multi segment LEDs. 16×2 LCD is named so because; also reverses. When magnetic field and electric field
it has 16 Columns and 2 Rows as shown in the Fig 3. interact they produce a mechanical force, and based on
The LCD can work in two different modes, namely the that the working principle of DC motor is established.
4-bit mode and the 8-bit mode. In 4-bit mode the data The image of DC motor is shown in Fig 5. A DC motor
is sent nibble by nibble, first upper nibble and then is a rotary electrical machine that converts direct
lower nibble. A nibble is a group of four bits, so the electrical energy into mechanical energy. The most
lower four bits (D0-D3) of a byte found the lower nibble common types rely on the forces produced by magnetic
while the upper four bits (D4-D7) of a byte form the fields. Nearly all types of DC motors have some
higher nibble. This allows the 8-bit data to be transferred. internal mechanisms, either electromechanical or
Whereas in 8-bit mode, the 8-bit data can be sent electronic.
directly in one stroke since it uses all the data lines. 8-
bit is faster and flawless than 4-bit mode. But the
major drawback is that it needs 8 data lines connected to
the microcontroller.

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F. Relay H. Keypad

Fig 6: Single module relay Fig 8: 4x3 matrix keypad

A Matrix keypad is the most commonly used input

A relay is an electrically operated device. It is an device in many of the application areas like digital
electromagnetic switch operated by a relatively small circuits, telephone communications, calculators, ATMs,
electric current that can turn on or off a much larger and so on. A matrix keypad consists of a set of push
electric current. It has a control system and (also called button or switches which are arranged in a matrix
input circuit or input contactor) and controlled system format of rows and columns as shown in Fig 8. Matrix
(also called output circuit or output contractor). It is keypad can be connected to the microcontroller in
frequently used in automatic control circuit. It is an numerous ways or techniques, but the fundamental
automatic switch to controlling a high-current circuit logic is same as making the columns as input and the
with a low-current signal as shown in Fig 6. rows as output. So, in order to detect the key pressed
from the keypad, the row lines have to be made low one
G. Buzzer by one and to read the columns.

III. SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION

A. Keil µVision IDE

µVision is a window-based software development
platform that combines a robust and modern editor
with a project manager and make facility tool. It
integrates all the tools needed to develop embedded
applications including a C/C++ compiler, macro
assembler, linker/locator, and a HEX file generator.
The µVision IDE and Debugger is the central part of
the Keil development tool chain and has numerous
Fig 7: Buzzer features that help the programmer to develop embedded
applications quickly and successfully. The Keil tools
A buzzer or beeper is an audio signaling device,
are easy to use, and are guaranteed to help you
which may be mechanical, electrochemical or
achieve your design goals in a timely manner [5].
piezoelectric. The main working principle is based
on the theory that, whenever an electric potential is
B. MC Programming Language: Embedded C
applied across a piezoelectric material, a pressure
Embedded C is the most popular embedded
variation is generated. A piezo buzzer consists of
software language in the world. Most embedded
piezo crystals in between two conductors as shown in
software is written in Embedded C. Embedded C is
Fig 7. When a potential difference is applied across
very similar to C. Embedded languages in general
these crystals, they push one conductor and pull the
requires a different kind of thought process to use.
other conductor by their internal property. The
Embedded systems, like cameras or TV boxes, are
continuous pull and push action generates a sharp
simple computers that are designed to perform a
sound wave. They are typically used as an alarm
single specific task. Embedded C lies somewhere
circuits. piezo buzzer can generate a sound in the range
between being a high level language and a low level
of 2 to 4 kHz.
language. Embedded C, unlike low level assembly
languages, is portable. It can run on a wide variety of
processors, regardless of their architecture. Unlike high
level languages, Embedded C requires less resources to
run and isn‟t as complex. Another advantage of
Embedded C is that it is comparatively easy to debug.
Historically, embedded C programming requires

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nonstandard extensions to the C language in order to and dumped into the microcontroller using Kiel software
support exotic features such as fixed- point and Novuton ISP-ICP respectively. The block diagram
arithmetic, multiple distinct memory banks, and basic of the proposed system is shown in the Fig 9.
I/O operations. In 2008, the C Standards Committee
extended the C language to address these issues by
providing a common standard for all implementations
to adhere to. It includes a number of features not
available in normal C, such as, fixed- point arithmetic,
named address spaces, and basic I/O hardware
addressing. Embedded „C‟ use most of the syntax and
semantics of standard C, e.g. main () function, variable
definition, data type declaration, conditional statements
(if, switch. case), loops (while, for), functions, arrays and
strings, structures and union, bit operations, macros,
unions, etc.
The „C‟ Programming Language was originally
developed for and implemented on the UNIX operating Fig 9: Block diagram of anti-theft control system
system, by Dennis Ritchie in 1971. One of the best
features of C is that it is not tied to any particular A password check message is displayed on the LCD
hardware or system. This makes it easy for a user to provided inside the car and at the same time the
write programs that will run without any changes on owner is alerted with a message about the usage of his
practically all machines. C is often called a middle-level car. The SMS is sent to the owner of the vehicle and the
computer language as it combines the elements of high- recovery contacts (ex: police and other recovery
level languages with the functionalism of assembly contacts). Thus in this way crimes can be reduced to a
language. To produce the most efficient machine code, great extent as vehicles today are being stolen in large
the programmer must not only create an efficient high number [2].
level design, but also pay attention to the detailed This system makes use of an embedded chip that
implementation. has a vibration sensor, which senses the key during
insertion and triggers the microcontroller. Then it
sends a text message through GSM to the owner‟s
C. Novuton ISP-ICP
mobile stating that the car is being accessed. This is
Novuton has been committed to building the
followed by the system present in the car asking the
customer- oriented MCU eco-System from rich
user to enter a unique password. The password consists
platform products, evaluation boards, device drivers,
of few characters and the car key number. In this
BSP, own-developed debugging tools, software
proposed system DC motor is used as vehicle engine.
developing tools, integrated development tools, and mass
Only if the user enters correct password within three
production supporting tools, and the operating system
trials, the engine will start. Here the relay switch is
software to fulfill customers‟ needs from product
used to ON/OFF vehicle engine. If the user fails to
selection, development and mass production stages.
enter the correct password in three trials, a text
Nuvoton provides both hardware and software
message is sent to the owner about the unauthorized
development tools to customers to shorten the product
usage and also microcontroller activates buzzer to alert
development time using Nuvoton NuMicro® Family,
owner and the people nearby.
32-bit Cortex-M0/M4 Microcontrollers. The simple,
easy-to-use and real-featured development system
V. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND
provides a quick and easy way for product development
DISCUSSIONS
and debugging. With ISP, ICP, On-line/Off-line
programming capability, abundant hardware tools
The experimental setup is shown in the Fig 10.
including the NuTiny, Nu-Link (ICE Bridge), Nu-LB
When the user inserts the key, the microcontroller
(development learning board), standalone writer and
generates the vibration and initializes the GSM and
gang- programmer are available to help customers
then sends an SMS to the concerned authority over
shorten the time- to-market for product development
GSM modem. Fig 11 shows LCD screen messages.
and production. Besides the tools provided by Nuvoton,
Keil RVMDK and IAR EWARM also supports the
complete development tool chain with project manager,
editor, compiler tools for the NuMicro® Family.

IV. METHODOLOGY

The main purpose of this project is to prevent

vehicle theft. Here the microcontroller AT89S52 is used
to interface the components. Embedded C code is written

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Fig 11: LCD screen messages

Fig 13: Screenshot of mobile messages
Description:
1. Welcome message is displayed when micro-
VII. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE SCOPE OF WORK
controller activates.
2. Micro-controller initializes the GSM and SMS is The anti-theft control system is a breakthrough in today‟s
sent. world where automobile theft has increased rapidly. Today,
3. Normal condition is displayed on screen when the car majority of the communication and its applications are used
is in stable mode. by using GSM. The combination of GSM in anti-theft control
4. Vibration is displayed when user inserts the key. system ensures efficiency and security as is required by it. The
GSM also ensures that the effectiveness of the system is not
And a text is displayed on LCD screen to enter the just restricted to local use but can be covered over a wide
password as shown in the Fig 12. Owner has to enter the range. With smartphones proliferating, it will become possible
password within three trials. If the password entered is correct to disable the automobile remotely. This can deter thefts
the engine will start. The relay is connected to the Vehicle unless the software gets hacked or disabled. And such systems
Engine Unit of the Automobile. can take over the car-alarms used usually nowadays.
Presently, only the SMS feature is available. For ease of
operation, developments can be made to include the Call
Feature. Microphone can also be interfaced to the GMS
module so that during theft activity, voice call could be
established with the owner.
In future, this security system can be improvised to
function as an integrated-data-security system for car
communication systems. It would ensure that all the data
exchanged within the vehicle and outside the vehicle is
protected.
Fig 12: Password result displayed on LCD screen

If the owner fails to enter the correct password, the

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