Smart Security System for Vehicles using Internet of Things (IoT)

With an ascending advancement of smart technologies, the future of vehicle security systems (VSS) are changing into smart systems for various benefits. With this continuous advancement, internet has become an integral part of one’s life where Internet of Things (IoT) is the latest and emerging internet technology that has changed the way one looks at things. Internet of things is developing everyday from small scale machines to large scale machines that can share data and accomplish tasks while individuals are occupied with other activities. The main aim of the paper is to design a smart vehicle security system using IoT, that is to turn a customary vehicle security systems (CVSS) to a smart vehicle security systems (SVSS) for accessing and controlling vehicles remotely using a Smart phone. SVSS are also called as Intelligent Anti-Theft Tracking Systems (iATTS). To be specific, we aim to design a light-weight, low cost, extensible, flexible wireless smart vehicle security system using IoT which employs the integration of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Positioning System (GPS), Global System for Mobile communication (GSM), wireless communication, cloud networking, and fuzzy algorithm that is used for decision tree. This smart system is created to provide vehicle information such as position, time, and alarm informed to the owner of the vehicle by either using Short Message Service (SMS) or using mobile application. The combination of the above technologies can be used synergistically as a smart vehicle security key to control a vehicle (lock or unlock one’s vehicle with the help of SMS/app) from remote locations. The complete system is designed considering all types of vehicles by providing a simple, effective ease of installation, to provide vehicles extreme security and SVSS will be a means for preventing, detecting and counter-measuring robbery of vehicles.