Wireless Embedded System for Anti-Theft and Anti-Forget for Personal Belonging by Using Sensor Network

Abstract

In recent years, the lost of personnel properties such as vehicle, laptops, briefcase and smart mobiles were increasing at an alarming rate around the world. People have started to use the monitoring and theft control systems installed in their properties based on Global System Mobile (GSM) and/or Global Positioning System (GPS). Unfortunately, the cellular network and GPS are not available in all places throughout the country such as forests, deserts and uninhabited areas, and inside the tunnels as well as the high power consumption and installation cost. Therefore, the wireless sensor network techniques were proposed to overcome theses shortages. The main aim in this thesis is to design and realize a simple, low cost and low power consumption anti-theft and anti-forget system for personal belongings using an inbuilt microcontroller and wireless sensor network means. The proposed system was designed, simulated and implemented. The obtained results show an acceptable performance level, even the estimated distance from the received signal strength was crucially affected by the surrounding environment.