Despite the many technological advancements present in today’s modernized world, password-based security systems still remain a weak link in almost every application that they have been utilized in, some more than the others. This is the reason why scientists, engineers, hobbyists and the other brilliant thinkers are pressurized to design systems that have durable not-so-easily figured out passwords. Regardless of these extra security measures, hackers do somehow find a way to break into private storages to steal valuables such as computer data, money, precious gems and jewelry, automobiles, cell phones or other technological devices. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to find a fail-safe method that would provide peace of mind to a person from the constant worry of his/her items getting stolen. Recent years has seen innumerable security systems being introduced into the world one after another.
A major difficulty that citizens have had to face for a long time now is that of vehicle theft. Often, people find their vehicles stolen from parking lots or other spaces, leaving them stranded on the road without a transport. Early research revealed that bicycles and motorcycles suffer the highest rate of thefts because of the poor anti-theft measures that are installed in them. People who go through the experience of bike thefts have a very low probability of purchasing another bike again because of their low-to-none security measures. This affects the bike industry greatly which has prompted them to find the best possible security devices so that people can combat bike thefts. Bike industrialists have introduced innovative new methods that could possibly reduce the rising rate of stolen bikes in a city. The knowledge of better and more cycle locking exercises has been communicated to both existing as well as new cyclists.
Engineers have shown a keen interest in the bike security predicament and come up with various technologies that could further add to their safety. Students studying in colleges and universities most commonly depend on bikes as their means of transport to and from their educational institutes. Sometimes, if they can’t find a suitable spot inside their campus’s parking, they have to park outside resulting in their bikes getting stolen. Engineering students who went through this ordeal were determined to eradicate this problem completely and so very bravely took up bike security anti-theft projects as a topic for their final year projects. The most widely popular and extremely useful technology that electrical engineers in their final years deployed in anti-theft systems for bikes was the RF method of operation. That’s right, engineering students came up with an intelligent anti-theft module that would require the user’s password to start. This security module is integrated in the bike’s ignition system so that the user always has to first input the password via a 3x3 keyboard in order to start the bike.
However, the owner of the bike under any circumstances has to carry with him a RF receiver device without which the system won’t work and the bike would remain unresponsive. When the user enters the right password, the RF transmitter sends the data to the microcontroller attached. The microcontroller (mostly from the 8051 family) processes the incoming data. If the password is incorrect, the microcontroller takes no further action that would result in the bike starting up whereas if the password matches the one stored in the control unit, a signal is sent to the RF receiver and the bike starts up. A thief attempting to steal a bike might succeed in breaking the locks but when it comes to entering the password, he would ultimately fail and have to retreat before the bike starts to ring an alarm that is triggered when the wrong password is entered for the third time. The buzzer only goes off if the user enters the correct password into the system.
Some engineering students have also based bike security anti-theft final year projects on biometric identification. This indicates that the user would have to pass a fingerprint identification test in order to start up the bike. A GSM-GPS module interconnected with the fingerprint scanner would just further enhance the protective measures. If a robber swipes his finger on the scanner, the system will instantly generate a SMS and send it to the user to alert him. The GPS system will allow the user to locate his bike if the robber tries and manages to get on it somehow. Even though these bike security anti-theft projects are made especially for motorbikes and bicycles but that doesn’t mean they can’t be installed in cars and other vehicles as well.
Engineers have shown a keen interest in the bike security predicament and come up with various technologies that could further add to their safety. Students studying in colleges and universities most commonly depend on bikes as their means of transport to and from their educational institutes. Sometimes, if they can’t find a suitable spot inside their campus’s parking, they have to park outside resulting in their bikes getting stolen. Engineering students who went through this ordeal were determined to eradicate this problem completely and so very bravely took up bike security anti-theft projects as a topic for their final year projects. The most widely popular and extremely useful technology that electrical engineers in their final years deployed in anti-theft systems for bikes was the RF method of operation. That’s right, engineering students came up with an intelligent anti-theft module that would require the user’s password to start. This security module is integrated in the bike’s ignition system so that the user always has to first input the password via a 3x3 keyboard in order to start the bike.
However, the owner of the bike under any circumstances has to carry with him a RF receiver device without which the system won’t work and the bike would remain unresponsive. When the user enters the right password, the RF transmitter sends the data to the microcontroller attached. The microcontroller (mostly from the 8051 family) processes the incoming data. If the password is incorrect, the microcontroller takes no further action that would result in the bike starting up whereas if the password matches the one stored in the control unit, a signal is sent to the RF receiver and the bike starts up. A thief attempting to steal a bike might succeed in breaking the locks but when it comes to entering the password, he would ultimately fail and have to retreat before the bike starts to ring an alarm that is triggered when the wrong password is entered for the third time. The buzzer only goes off if the user enters the correct password into the system.
Some engineering students have also based bike security anti-theft final year projects on biometric identification. This indicates that the user would have to pass a fingerprint identification test in order to start up the bike. A GSM-GPS module interconnected with the fingerprint scanner would just further enhance the protective measures. If a robber swipes his finger on the scanner, the system will instantly generate a SMS and send it to the user to alert him. The GPS system will allow the user to locate his bike if the robber tries and manages to get on it somehow. Even though these bike security anti-theft projects are made especially for motorbikes and bicycles but that doesn’t mean they can’t be installed in cars and other vehicles as well.