Please comment on my project, GSM security sytem using SMS

[Umar Arshad]

Hello guys,
I've built this GSM security system as my semester project using T290i mobile and controlled my car using it. Please leave your comments about it.
If any one needs help in implementing such a system, I can help.

Some of the functions it can perform are:
* start and stop the engine (without using the key)
* stop the engine if somebody starts it with a key ( by cutting off ignition)
* lock and unlock the doors
* send a text message to the owner if an intruder is detected (by monitoring the doors)
* switch the heater/air conditioner on and off

You can see the complete details, pictures and download project files and source code from my website.
http://arshad-umar.blogspot.com/2009/09/gsm-vehicle-control-and-security-using.html

[NOPE9]

Hey Umar

Very nice project.  How did you learn about the T290i being able to  
supply text messages via a serial link ?
Olin would be interested to see that async serial is still being used.
I googled for the T290i and I cannot find any for sale in the USA.  Is  
the T290i obsolete ?  Or limited to countries
other than the USA ?   I would like to do this if I can find a phone  
that has similar capabilities.

Gus

>
>
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Umar Arshad wrote:
>
>
> Hello guys,
> I've built this GSM security system as my semester project using T290i
> mobile and controlled my car using it. Please leave your comments  
> about it.
> If any one needs help in implementing such a system, I can help.
>
> Some of the functions it can perform are:
> * start and stop the engine (without using the key)
> * stop the engine if somebody starts it with a key ( by cutting off
> ignition)
> * lock and unlock the doors
> * send a text message to the owner if an intruder is detected (by  
> monitoring
> the doors)
> * switch the heater/air conditioner on and off
>
> You can see the complete details, pictures and download project  
> files and
> source code from my website.
> http://arshad-umar.blogspot.com/2009/09/gsm-vehicle-control-and-security-using.html
> http://arshad-umar.blogspot.com/2009/09/gsm-vehicle-control-and-security-using.html
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[cdenk]

This sounds like the equipment used in the TV program "Bait Car", which
usually follows Newark, New Jersey, USA Police auto theft unit. They set
the car out with keys in it at a high theft area, let someone drive off,
track with GPS, and follow it to strip garage or lock doors and shut it
down .:)  Good job. :) :)

They also have closed circuit TV cameras interior of car, but, don't
know if the record, or transmit back to chase vehicles.

Umar Arshad wrote:

> Hello guys,
> I've built this GSM security system as my semester project using T290i
> mobile and controlled my car using it. Please leave your comments about it.
> If any one needs help in implementing such a system, I can help.
>
> Some of the functions it can perform are:
> * start and stop the engine (without using the key)
> * stop the engine if somebody starts it with a key ( by cutting off
> ignition)
> * lock and unlock the doors
> * send a text message to the owner if an intruder is detected (by monitoring
> the doors)
> * switch the heater/air conditioner on and off
>
> You can see the complete details, pictures and download project files and
> source code from my website.
> http://arshad-umar.blogspot.com/2009/09/gsm-vehicle-control-and-security-using.html
> http://arshad-umar.blogspot.com/2009/09/gsm-vehicle-control-and-security-using.html 
>  

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[Umar Arshad]

NOPE9 wrote:

Hey Umar

Very nice project.  How did you learn about the T290i being able to  
supply text messages via a serial link ?
Olin would be interested to see that async serial is still being used.
I googled for the T290i and I cannot find any for sale in the USA.  Is  
the T290i obsolete ?  Or limited to countries
other than the USA ?   I would like to do this if I can find a phone  
that has similar capabilities.

Gus

>
>
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Umar Arshad wrote:
>
>
> Hello guys,
> I've built this GSM security system as my semester project using T290i
> mobile and controlled my car using it. Please leave your comments  
> about it.
> If any one needs help in implementing such a system, I can help.
>
> Some of the functions it can perform are:
> * start and stop the engine (without using the key)
> * stop the engine if somebody starts it with a key ( by cutting off
> ignition)
> * lock and unlock the doors
> * send a text message to the owner if an intruder is detected (by  
> monitoring
> the doors)
> * switch the heater/air conditioner on and off
>
> You can see the complete details, pictures and download project  
> files and
> source code from my website.
> http://arshad-umar.blogspot.com/2009/09/gsm-vehicle-control-and-security-using.html
> http://arshad-umar.blogspot.com/2009/09/gsm-vehicle-control-and-security-using.html
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Thanks for the comments. Yeah the T290 is quite obsolete, I had one some time back. I bought its serial cable for retreiving contacts etc, thats how I found that one could control most of its functions by sending AT commands(see the manual on my website) via hyperterminal. So I thought, why not try this stuff with a microcontroller and it worked. I intercepted hyperterminal's serial communication using a packet sniffer software and found out how it talked to the phone, and mimiced it using a microcontroller.
The phone and its serial cable are available at ebay.
regards
Umar Arshad.