Assignement

Vehicle security, smart transport, global positioning systems, distress calls, Global Positioning System (GPS), Global system for mobile (GSM), Radio-frequency identification (RFID)

Nature of the topic under discussion

In the age of science, many people are keen on smart vehicle. Smart vehicle can provide some lifesaving safety to the operator or driver. Apart from this, GPS fitted in smart vehicle which help to track the car in emergency. The need for comprehensiveness of rides gave rise to smart transportation. Smart transportation system plays a vital role on people daily’s life. Cab or ridesharing passenger vehicle is one of them. Many people want to take ride when they are in medication condition or other issue. According to Sherly & Somasundareswari (2015) it is a concept that deals with the efficiency of accessing rides as and when demanded by the customers. During operating cabs, many security issues can be occurred for example hijacking the car or stealing money from car. On the other hand, some cabs operator can take the advantage from their clients, especially, when the client is drunk or in quite place. However, worth noting that the vehicles are disposed to breaking down in a manner that the owners cannot fix. In such cases, the owners may not have an option but to request for a ride (Braden 2014). Similarly, owners of private cars may find themselves in situations whereby they are unable to drive themselves due to health conditions. The condition may warrant seeking medical attention. In such a situation, the concerned person may have no option but to request for a ride to the nearest medical facility. The request and provision of vehicles creates a scenario of multiple cars particularly in cities (Sharma et al. 2017). The management of traffic also becomes a matter of concern.

Persons without private cars will commonly require reliable rides for moving to various destinations within and without their area. For instance, they may require an efficient means of transport to get them to their places of work to avoid being late (De Miranda 2008). Emergency situations can be happened necessitating the services of rides, for example sickness.

Smart transportation and access to rides is made possible by information technology. It takes the form of smart applications that run on smart phones and it is possible for users to request rides on demand (Jefferies et al. 2016). Technology provides for convenience in the possibility to request for rides at any time in day or night (Ding et al. 2015). Many people have also ventured into the business venture, successfully providing for the reduction of charges for rides to customers. Technology has brought a revolution in the way rides are requested and accessed by the various players.

Reason for the project

Even with the benefits, a potential problem has occurred in the application of smart technology for quick access to ride. Malicious people have taken advantage of the convenience of time to further their criminal activities (Nagy 2008). Gangs have resorted to requesting for rides in wee hours of the night only to harm the drivers and make away with their cars. Similarly, some operators have resorted to perpetuation of criminal activities in the harassment of customers. Cases of sexual harassment and robbing of clients have not escaped the attention of opinion makers. Emergency can rise to the need for development of smart vehicle security management system (Mimar 2016). The system provides security for both the operator and the client who requests for a ride. The application may be viewed considering being an enhancement to the application for the request of rides (Markham 2018). Since its inception and use, perpetuation of crimes in smart transportation industry has gone down significantly.

Research Questions and Parameters

This report seeks to carry out a literature review on the security systems and the security features they harbor as well as the frequency of their use. Topic targets included those with information regarding security of transport systems and vehicles. The research, however, excludes information relating to fleet management by companies that manage large numbers of vehicles. It mainly looks at the cabs that provide ride services to customers. Security of the vehicles that offer rides is worth consideration as the rides are inevitable to persons of all social classes. It would, thus, be important to provide adequate security to the operators as well as clients. The major research questions relate to the preferable features of a vehicle security management system and supporting services.

Methodology:

This report illustrates the research behind this paper is based on literature studies as well as case studies. The literature has been shown that the areas of GPS tracking system, traffic management system, identification management system, emergency callsign system, surveillance system to protect the cabs operator and their clients.

A case study shows the logic that links the data to be collected to the initial question of a study (Yin, 1994). Moreover, RFID (Radio-Frequency identification) is most continent for the taxi operator to monitoring the taxi driver authentication. It identifies taxi driver authentication.

Many of the sources included information on the topic as it is an emerging issue to be pointed out. Several literatures provided the information about the security issues of cabs or ridesharing passenger vehicle. It was believed that any sources with information on smart transportation would incorporate some aspect of security. As such, they were also accessed and checked for the requisite information.

SLR process are given below:

SLRs are proposed as a novel way for conducting literature reviews. Another literature reviewed carried out that there are many existing security issues lies in cabs which are harmful for the cab’s operator and their clients. To begin with, sexual harassment is the most common scenery in cabs, sometime this scenery done by the driver of cab’s and it can be done by the clients as well. Secondly, identification issue is another thing which is important to avoid some unexpected phenomenon. Most importantly, when taxi driver does hell jobs or takes passenger from rank, it is hard to find the taxi’s driver information if passenger do not remember the taxi number. Sometimes taxi operator cannot track the taxi driver’s information, when the taxi’s Bluetooth connection is off. To avoid all the security problems above taxi or cabs operator introduce some security management system which is helpful to mitigate such type of security issues. GPS tracking system is the most important feature of cabs to track the cabs over the radio signal. Afterwards, taxi operator installs surveillance camera inside of the car to protect the sexual assault. Microcontroller also help to provide the signal to the relay which will turn off car ignition and stop the car in emergency. Taxi company also added GSM modem which receive the message through GSM. This message transfer to the computer through the serial port. As a result, the employ name, employ id and cab position coordinates get displayed on computer. Moreover, emergency button (M13) is most important feature of cabs. When employee finds out himself in a problem and if they press this button it will directly send callsign to the taxi call centre to act (Pethakar et al. 2012).

Contradictions between the articles

Even though many sources agree on major issues about the provision of security for vehicles, some disparities occur between the sources. While some sources suggest that enhancement of security is the discretion of the individual client or operator, others provide that the application should be enhanced to offer for automated ways of enhancing security (Namburu et al. 2014). The former sources insist on the provision of utilities that make it possible for either the operator or the client to make distress calls in case of unfortunate incidents (Lepejian & Lachinyan 2009). On the other hand, providing the provision of features that make it possible for the automatic detection and reporting of criminal activities.

Relationships between the articles

A major relationship exists between the sources. The relationship is that all the sources express their trust in the capability of information technology to provide a solution to the problem of insecurity in the provision of smart transport services. Whether the discretion of security enhancement is said to be with the operator or the application, the sources do not underestimate the potential of technology in the provision of a reliable solution.

The gaps between the sources are in the purposes for which the security features should be installed. Some sources provide information and proposals to the effect of prevention of criminal activities. Other sources observe that the prevention of criminal activities in smart transport systems is an uphill task (Menouar et al. 2017). Thus, they propose the installation of security features to make it easy to track the perpetrators of crimes.

Table of summary are given below;

An analysis of the sources proves that it is indeed possible to employ information technology resources to provide security of clients and operators in smart transport system. A vehicle security management system provides the features for enhancement of security of the operator and the client. It consists of a module that connects it to the global positioning system for the identification of the specific location of the vehicle. The system also provides for a fast and reliable means of making a distress call by either the operator or the client (Basir 2014). Owing to connection to global positioning system, rescuers may quickly rush to the alleged crime scene. It is also possible to install security features that automatically detect criminal activities in and around the vehicle fitted with the system. The feature would make it possible for the distress calls to be made in the event the operator or the driver is unable to make the call (Tieman et al. 2014). The nature of distress calls should vary. The system should, therefore, provide for different temporary mechanisms of addressing the distresses. In case of attempted theft of a vehicle, the system should provide a cut off to the engine to prevent the attackers from making away with the vehicle. The system should also transmit a request for a quick security intervention (McIntyre 2014). In case a car breaks down in a purportedly unsafe location, the system should make requests for reinforcements from the support team. In the event an operator attempts to harass the client, the message should be transmitted to the support team and a call should be made to the operator reprimanding him for his actions and summoning him. In case of an accident, the fitted system should transmit a message of emergency to have the support team dispatch a team of rescuers to the scene of the accident (Bevacqua et al. 2012). For effectiveness of the system, the support team should organize a security team and rescuers on standby to be dispatched to the locations of emergency (Bergholz et al. 2014).

Implementation of the project requires the development of a program with all the features outlined above. Development of the program would require some background knowledge in program development and coding in a language that is popular in the development of smart phone applications.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, information technology holds a potential solution to the challenge of insecurity of vehicles used to provide rides to people. The crimes that the system seeks to protect operators against include robbery and theft of the vehicles. Clients, on the other hand, are protected against unwarranted harassment and rape. Rescuers would also be dispatched in the event of an accident or the breakdown of a vehicle in a potentially dangerous locality. The solution lies in a system that always provides the exact location of a vehicle. It also provides utilities for the raising of distress calls in the event of danger. The system provides the utilities for making distress calls to both the operator (driver) and the client. As such, it protects both from harm. Development of the system would be easy if the developers proceeded by establishing user requirements. Prototyping would be the most preferred development methodology for developing the system. The major supporting services for the system would be a support team that is available around the clock. The team would be charged with the responsibility of promptly responding to distress calls by either clients or operators. A team of security personnel and rescuers also needs to be on standby to respond to distress calls. The review provides room for the development of security systems and the improvement of the existing ones. With the information and efforts, the future of vehicle security systems is bright.

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