Vehicle Theft Intimation over SMS and Remote Control of its Engine

Now-a-days number of vehicles can be seen on roads. Most people in this modern age prefer to have at least one vehicle for themselves or their family. With the invention of strong stealing techniques, owners are in fear of having their vehicles being stolen from common parking lot or from outside their home. Face recognition concept is one of the successful and important applications of image analysis. It’s a holistic approach towards the technology and has potential applications in various areas such as biometrics, information society, smart cards, access control etc. This concept of facial recognition can be used for vehicle security as well.

          The use of vehicle is must for everyone. At the same time, protection from theft is also very important. Prevention of vehicle theft can be done remotely by an authorized person. This can be done by recognizing the face of the authorized person to unlock the engines. In case of any theft, the system will not let the engines start and it will send a SMS to the owner through GSM in the pre-installed system of the vehicle. The main advantage of the application is the wider range of transmission and reception over the internet which will help to notify the authorized person being anywhere in the world. Even owner can turn off the engine by sending reply message from his/her phone to lock the engine, when getting theft alert message.

Keywords: Vehicle, SMS, GSM, Raspberry PI.