CONSTRUCTION OF MICROCONTROLLER BASED VEHICLE SPEED ALARM

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><div><strong>1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY</strong></div><div>The dashboard instrument cluster in a car organizes a variety of sensors and gauges, including the oil pressure gauge, coolant temperature gauge, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-gauge.htm">fuel level</a>&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-gauge.htm">gauge, </a>tachometer and more. But the most prominent gauge and perhaps the most important, at least in terms of how many times you look at it while driving is the <strong>speedometer</strong>. The job of the speedometer is to indicate the speed of a car in milesper hour, kilometers per hour or both. Even in late-model cars, it's an analog device that uses a needle to point to a specific speed, which the driver reads as a number printed on a dial.</div><div>As with any emerging technology, the first speedometers were expensive and available only as options. It wasn't until 1910 that automobile manufacturers began to include the speedometer as standard equipment. One of the first speedometer suppliers was <strong>Otto Schulze Auto meter (OSA)</strong>, a legacy company of Siemens VDO Automotive AG, one of the leading developers of modern instrument clusters.</div><div></div><br> <br><p></p>