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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
This project is designed to make motorcycle easy to monitor when a user is in distance with her bike. The project is designed to allow easy use of a mobile phone to
alert biker in anywhere as long they have coverage of the phone line. Using a mobile phone the development of the alert system will be carried out using SMS. This will
communicate with biker mobile phone, which is to alert when something intrude to the bike. When the action has been carried out then a response is sent to the user.
The project involves three main areas, research, development\programming, testing and the writing of the report. This chapter will briefly discuss on the project
overview. The objective, scope, and thesis outline will be presented in this chapter.
1.1 Project Background
The project is controlled at developing and testing the use of mobile phones to remotely control the bike. The microcontroller would then control a device based
on the information given to it. The proposed solution will need to be easy to use, simple, secure, and robust and be useful on most mobile phones. To achieve this
testing will need to be carried out to create a useful system.
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The report consists of a background into the area of PIC16877A microcontroller and mobile communication, how they are interfaced and
programming set used in communication.
The widespread use of information technology is dramatically improving both the quality and the efficiency of different services offered to people. The large
deployment of wireless networks and increased use of handheld devices like the personal digital assistant PDA and mobile phones have encouraged developer to
build different kind of applications and systems in all domains.
We can find, for example, IR remote control which is an application that can be installed on a mobile phone to use it as a remote control via Infrared; this
application can be used in a small area and needs a line of sight [1]. Figure 1.1 shows the flow of sending messages; the GSM module will send SMS that has been
programmed in the PIC when the bike intrudes, then the bike owner will receive message from GSM terminal.
Figure 1.1: Overview of this project
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1.2 Project Objectives
The objectives of this project are to design thing that can alert us from a theft. Below are the main objectives:
i. To send SMS alert us that is automatically generated without human
intervention when intrusion. ii.
To monitor our vehicle from a distance. iii.
This system can send via SMS messages.
1.3 Project Scope
There are a few scopes and guidelines listed to unsure the project is conducted within its intended boundary. This is to ensure the project is heading in the
right direction to achieve its intended objectives.
i. To design circuitry for the overall system.
ii. To develop the program that can integrate and control the overall system.
1.4 Project Methodology
