DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SMART VEHICLE OPERATION MONITORING & SAFETY SYSTEM

Abstract

This project deals with the design and development of an IoT based embedded system for detecting the real time vehicle health condition & safety by monitoring various parameters of a vehicle based on some threshold value. In this project, an integrated system is being developed which is a proper blending of hardware (Mechanical & Electronics) and the software to monitor fuel theft, identification of fuel consumption, brake shoe/pad worn out indication as well as load status of a vehicle and transmit it to a web server to store that information along with a unique identification number, different parameters along with date and time. This helps in increasing the life span of the vehicle as well as the engine. Ended up, the owner will be notified of all of the parameter’s simulated data through mobile application according to present condition of his vehicle. Using an IoT-based system, the collection of fuel consumption, brake shoe monitoring, temperature measurement, overload checking data followed by real-time analyses at a centralized location, vehicle authorities can easily track movements of their vehicles embedded with sensor devices. In this project, we propose a new system that is based on a capacitive sensor that is open source, coupled to a controller embedded in a vehicle. The function of the controller would be to provide global positioning data over the GPS module for data transfer from almost any location.