Motorcycle theft prevention and recovery security system

Abstract

Transportation plays a big part of our daily lives. Every year, people in the Philippines are increasingly using vehicles especially motorcycles as their common means of transportation. Together with the increase of motorcycle users, motorcycle theft is also rampant over the years. In this study, a system had been developed for theft prevention and recovery of motorcycle in an easier and faster way. The user of this system will be notified through an alert once the motorcycle has been moved in a long distance or stolen. The user also could view the current location of the motorcycle, shutdown the engine and capture an image of the thief. The system has two components, the hardware and the software modules. The hardware component includes micro-controller, GSM, GPS, and a camera. The software component is the mobile application, which is the medium of communication of the user to the motorcycle and also serve as the main controller of the entire system. Based on the evaluation conducted in terms of usability and functionality it had been found out that most of the users strongly agreed the usefulness of the system.