ABSTRACT:
Crimes rate have been of increase in our society, and vehicles are being used for committing most of these crimes. Research shows that perpetrator of these acts make use of stolen vehicles snatched at gun points which is causing damages to live and properties. The Nigeria Police, Road safety Corps, Roadworthy Officers and other security agents adopted manual method for vehicle inspection system that involves the use of showing papers for proof of ownership which is prone to error and very easy to manipulate. There are many ways to scheme the inspectors since lots of tricks can be done on paper. The proposed system try to design an automated GSM-based vehicle inspection that will send a short message to a particular designated shortcode, which in turns bring back all necessary information needed by the vehicle inspection team to verify the authenticity of the vehicle ownership. The system is designed using a descriptive conceptual approach Unified Modelling language (UML) tools while PHP and MYSQL server which is used in storing data being captured are used for implementation of the proposed system. The proposed system uses the staff identification number as primary identification (authentication) and all the staff phone number will be register in the database. If the system is implemented, the rate at which vehicles will be stolen at gun-points or crime rate will be reduced if not totally eradicated and also shows that GSM is a practicable platform for managing the process of inspection of vehicles. Future work is to consider how the system can be further secured from authorized users, and further research work should be carried out on the use of Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and its application to accommodate the picture of the vehicle owners.
Keyword: Automated, Mobile-based, Vehicles, Scrutiny, Shortcode
