Bio-metric based electronic gun control for safety and protection purposes

Project Title

Bio-metric based electronic gun control for safety and protection purposes

Project Area of Specialization Information & Communication TechnologyProject Summary

This project describes the design, implementation of a user-verification system for a smart gun, which is based on finger print recognition. Nowadays there is a growing interest in personalized applications that use biometrics as an access key. Well known methods use fingerprints, hand geometry, iris scans, or voice characteristics to identify a person or to verify a person’s identity. Since technology is improving and becoming more affordable, biometrics is becoming more popular for daily use. Powerful processors provide the possibility of doing complex calculations on large sets of data within a short time. This creates new possibilities for high-speed verification or even identification for many everyday applications

Project Objectives

• Our aimed objective for this project is to build Finger print based security electronic gun. 
• The second objective is to design such a system which display information on LCD as well as indicate through buzzer.
• The third objective is to install a low power consumption component for long battery life.

Project Implementation Method

For the experiment a collection of 2 or more handgrip patterns was gathered from a group of 2 persons. The two measurements for the same grip (finger print) different person will be used. The data were randomly split into a training and a test set of, nearly, equal sizes. This was done in such a way that the three measurements for the same grip were kept together

Benefits of the Project

Smart arms in simple terms are weapons which can identify their owners. The main purpose of a licensing system is to have a record of people using the weapons and to avoid unlicensed user usage; and these smart arms can help achieve the purpose more efficiently. They fire only with restricted permission and it acts as a major feature which could prevent misuse and accidental firing. An American survey showcases that majority of the firearm suicides occur with the weapons of the parents or other family members. According to the survey- 82% of the youths attempting to commit suicide used a firearm belonging to a family member and 84% of the accidental shooting deaths occurred in the home or car of the victims’ family. [2] Further, between 2005 and 2010, 1.4 million guns were stolen from their owners. This smart gun technology has the potential to prevent stolen guns from being used. This technology also prevents police officers, constables, security officials and all those people who carry firearms from being killed or injured by their own weapons (either by self or by the influence of another person). A number argued to be roughly 1 out of every 6 police officers gets killed in the line of duty in US. Though this is not the case in a country like India, it is always desirable to evolve and advance the technology. Currently in the US, there are about as many weapons as there are people, and as we know smart gun technology will only affect newly purchased weapons, (crimes with the old weapons will still continue). [3] But in the case of developing countries like India, Myanmar, and Ireland etc. is different. Neither the public is allowed to freely use a firearm nor are they allowed to buy the firearm without prior permission of the licensing authority – the District Magistrate. It is easier and advisable to implement this technology in such countries and shall also be widely accepted and supported by the government. It is very essential to modernize our firearm security before such state of affairs exists. 

            Convincing people to accept new smart gun technology is not an easy task. It creates a barrier to the freedom of usage of a firearm to the people. The mentality, attitude and mind-set plays a major role. Though this technology becomes very essential in near future, unless the government takes certain serious measures, it cannot be widely implemented. In countries like United States, the total number of guns are almost equal to total number of people, [3] and before such state of affairs exists in any country, the government needs to be equipped with such smart technology to control crimes.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Smart gun works in a simple way. Unlike conventional weapons, they are powered by a battery. Smart elements like electromagnetic solenoid, fingerprint reader and location sensor are integrated with the weapon. A central motherboard controls the whole process and power supply. The user has to first register his/her fingerprint into the system. Post registration, a template of authorized person’s fingerprint is stored in the system’s memory. Each time before firing, the user has to place his/her finger on the module and the fingerprint has to match with the stored template. After fingerprint matching with the stored template, the trigger is pulled. In case the trigger is pulled before the verification gets done, the gun does not fire; which means that the firing of the gun is entirely dependent on the trigger activation only after the verification process. This happens mainly due to the presence of an electromagnetic solenoid which acts as a relay in this system. The system sends the power to the solenoid only on the acceptance of the fingerprint, and solenoid operates only when it receives the power. Hence, fingerprint authorization is very essential for firing. On successful verification of the fingerprint, as said, the circuit gets the power and the system fires on triggering (trigger acts as a switch). Meanwhile, the system sends signals to the location sensing module to record the location of the place with the date and time stamp. This data is then internally stored in the system and also saved onto the cloud. The cloud is the central database which contains usage details of all smart weapons and can be viewed by the police or other official authorities anytime. This feature ensures efficient and proper usage of weapons as all of them are continuously monitored. The main reason for providing an internal storage is to facilitate a means to the user to track his/her ammunition usage. Additionally a comments section is provided wherein, users can type comments like need of usage, remaining ammunition etc. by connecting the memory to the computer. The comments are stored internally for user reference and not uploaded to the cloud.

Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemCore Industry SecurityOther Industries Education , IT Core Technology Artificial Intelligence(AI)Other Technologies OthersSustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for People, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Life on Land, Peace and Justice Strong InstitutionsRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	35730
finger print module	Equipment	1	6000	6000
uno arduino	Equipment	1	11000	11000
lcd, buzzer, led	Equipment	1	1030	1030
battery	Equipment	1	3000	3000
Eectronic gun	Equipment	1	14000	14000
relay	Equipment	1	700	700