IOT Smart Vehicle Ignition Control System
Proof Of Concept
Title: IOT Smart Vehicle Ignition Control System.
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Abstract
A system and method for turning on and off a vehicle’s engine and air conditioning system from smartphone is disclosed. The system comprises IOT Smart Vehicle Ignition Control Kit installed in vehicle configured to turn on or off engine and air conditioning system of vehicle. A vehicle start and stop code is programmed in IOT Smart Vehicle Ignition Control Kit and configured to communicate with user’s smartphone and can receive commands from a particular smartphone of the user. A smartphone can be wirelessly connected with the IOT Smart Vehicle Ignition Control Kit by means of Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. It is configured to send and receive commands and signals to turn on or off the engine and AC. If vehicle is started with smartphone and gear handle or handbrake handle is moved, engine will turn off. Selected device features of the vehicle engine’s and AC’s to turn on or off are controlled when the vehicle having IOT Smart Vehicle Ignition Control Kit installed in it and is connected to smartphone to receive on or off commands sent by user from smartphone to on or off engine and AC of the vehicle.
Working:
Detailed Description:
The idea was to make an IOT based Smart Vehicle Ignition Control System to "Start" and "Stop" the Engine of the vehicle and Turning On and Off its Air Conditioning System remotely by touching the contact switches displayed on the smartphone.
It consists of Smart Vehicle Ignition Control kit and a smartphone software application. The kit is to install in the vehicle and electric connections are made on the Lockset (Key hole switches / ignition wiring) to Start and Stop engine. Separate relay connections are made on the AC switch's wiring to Turn On and Off AC.
Sensors are installed on Gear handle, Handbrake Handle to sense the movement, on engine body to sense temperature, on output of rectifier/regulator to sense ignition.
It consists of Smart Vehicle Ignition Control kit and a smartphone software application. The kit is to install in the vehicle and electric connections are made on the Lockset (Key hole switches / ignition wiring) to Start and Stop engine. Separate relay connections are made on the AC switch's wiring to Turn On and Off AC.
Sensors are installed on Gear handle, Handbrake Handle to sense the movement, on engine body to sense temperature, on output of rectifier/regulator to sense ignition.
A smartphone software application is installed on the smartphone which provides user interface to connect and communicate the smartphone with Smart Vehicle Ignition Control kit wirelessly via Bluetooth interface. User have to first launch smartphone application then need to connect with vehicle by entering the Pass-code programmed in the kit. When connected, user have to tap on the buttons displayed in the App of the smartphone which will send command signals to kit which will open and close some relay contacts thus turning On and Off engine and Air conditioning system wirelessly from several meters without putting vehicle key in the key hole.
The ignition status and Air Conditioning System status is displayed on the screen of smartphone. If connection is interrupted or lost between kit and smartphone App, vehicle's engine turns Off automatically. Vehicle also turns Off after a predefined time programmed in the kit.
The ignition status and Air Conditioning System status is displayed on the screen of smartphone. If connection is interrupted or lost between kit and smartphone App, vehicle's engine turns Off automatically. Vehicle also turns Off after a predefined time programmed in the kit.
Smart Vehicle Ignition Control kit is powered by a separate battery present in kit. When vehicle is Off ,Kit is powered by built-in Li-Ion battery. When engine is turned On, Battery is charged and kit is powered by Charge Controller. Kit is 24/7 powered ON consuming very less Current (70mA) and waits for user’s command signal.
Engine will start only if these conditions satisfies:
A) Kit kit should be powered on.
B) Kit is connected to smartphone wirelessly.
C) Vehicle should be on Neutral gear.
D) Hand brake of vehicle is applied.
If above conditions are satisfied, only then controller board inside the kit will energize relays which starts the engine of the vehicle.
Air conditioning system will start only if these conditions satisfies:
1 A) Engine should be turned on.
2 B) AC will start only after 30 sec delay of start of engine.
Kit's Reactions on some specific Situations are explained here:
- Engine does not start if vehicle is not on the Neutral gear.
- Engine turns Off automatically if gear handle position is changed.
- Engine turns Off automatically off if handbrake position is changed.
- Engine will not start if hand brake of vehicle is not applied.
- Vehicle can be started without inserting key in the keyhole and if someone puts the key inside the keyhole when vehicle is started via app, then it turns Off the engine immediately.
- If battery voltage is below 3.7v , it shuts down the power to kit .
- Kit is powered by battery when engine is Off, if engine is turned On, then battery is charged by charge controller and kit is powered by charge controller.
(This video explains the working of our device)
Problem from where we were motivated:
- Nowadays, to start a vehicle and its AC, we have to go to vehicle and put keys in the keyhole and start the engine .then to start the AC we have to turn on the AC switch. Starting of the engine can be done from vehicle’s wireless key remote but turning on the AC cannot be done Remotely.In summers, a bright sunny day can raise ambient temperature to several degrees and if vehicle is parked in sunlight for several hours then the interior of the vehicle becomes very hot and user have to first turn on the engine and then AC to bring down the temperature this thing also consumes.
- In winters, the ambient temperature is several degrees low, so the interior vehicle have to warmed up by turning on AC blower and this will also take time to get desired results.
- In cold weather conditions, we have put keys in the key hole of the vehicle, start the engine and keep it running for 10 to 15 minutes until it warms up. Only after that vehicle is recommended to run. So if user is in hurry, going to vehicle then starting it on and then waiting till it warms up will consume time and running the vehicle until it not warmed up is not recommended. If done so, engine’s performance and life will be affected.
Features of our invention which are believed to be new and distinguish them over the closest technology.
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- In our invention the kit is connected to the internet and gas level is displayed on the mobile application.
- As the gas level goes below the predefined value for eg 10% , it will give a push notification on mobile to take an action to book a new cylinder or not. If user ignores 5 notifications then it will place an order for new cylinder anf will give notification on mobile.
- We can turn on and turn off the gas regulator knob from the mobile application by touching the button on mobile screen from any where in the world where internet is present.
- We can schedule time to automatically turn off the gas knob from the mobile application just like an alarm. Which will turn off the gas regulator on the predefined time and will also give push notification on mobile.
- At the time of leakage gas regulator knob will turn off automatically by giving push notification on mobile.
- At the time of leakage system will also trip the main MCB of the Building.
- We have have implemented a graph in app which shows the lpg useage with graph.
- We have implemented it with google assistant to automate tasks like booking gas , turning on off gas regulator.
Media Coverage:
- Chandigarh Bhaskar (Dainik Bhaskar) on 08/10/17
You can contact us at :
Aishwaryakaushik4@gmail.com
Anishyadav449@gmail.com
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