Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Research Into the Technology to be Integrated Within my Steering Wheel Lock:

My product will detect potential thieves using PIR (Passive Infrared) motion sensors, which in turn activates a microphone (to record the thieves voice) and a camera with a flash (to take a picture of the thief), this evidence will then be sent to the owner of the vehicle via a mobile phone application - thus alerting them of the problem. The product will also likely incorporate a fingerprint recognition unit, and obviously an integrated power source.

Below is some research on the aforementioned components/technologies:

PIR Motion Sensors:
https://learn.adafruit.com/pir-passive-infrared-proximity-motion-sensor/overview

PIR sensors allow you to sense motion, almost always used to detect whether a human has moved in or out of the sensors range. They are small, inexpensive, low-power, easy to use and don't wear out. For that reason they are commonly found in appliances and gadgets used in homes or businesses. They are often referred to as PIR, "Passive Infrared", "Pyroelectric", or "IR motion" sensors.
proximity_pirsensor.jpg
PIRs are basically made of a pyroelectric sensor (which you can see above as the round metal can with a rectangular crystal in the center), which can detect levels of infrared radiation. Everything emits some low level radiation, and the hotter something is, the more radiation is emitted. The sensor in a motion detector is actually split in two halves. The reason for that is that we are looking to detect motion (change) not average IR levels. The two halves are wired up so that they cancel each other out. If one half sees more or less IR radiation than the other, the output will swing high or low.
proximity_pirlens.jpg
Along with the pyroelectic sensor is a bunch of supporting circuitry, resistors and capacitors. It seems that most small hobbyist sensors use the BISS0001 ("Micro Power PIR Motion Detector IC"), undoubtedly a very inexpensive chip. This chip takes the output of the sensor and does some minor processing on it to emit a digital output pulse from the analog sensor.

Our older PIRs looked like this:
proximity_piranno.gif
Our new PIRs have more adjustable settings and have a header installed in the 3-pin ground/out/power pads
proximity_PIRbackLabeled.jpg
For many basic projects or products that need to detect when a person has left or entered the area, or has approached, PIR sensors are great. They are low power and low cost, pretty rugged, have a wide lens range, and are easy to interface with. Note that PIRs won't tell you how many people are around or how close they are to the sensor, the lens is often fixed to a certain sweep and distance (although it can be hacked somewhere) and they are also sometimes set off by housepets. Experimentation is key!
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https://learn.adafruit.com/pir-passive-infrared-proximity-motion-sensor/how-pirs-work

How PIRs Work Author Gravatar Image LADY ADA   
PIR sensors are more complicated than many of the other sensors explained in these tutorials (like photocells, FSRs and tilt switches) because there are multiple variables that affect the sensors input and output. To begin explaining how a basic sensor works, we'll use this rather nice diagram (if anyone knows where it originates plz let me know).
The PIR sensor itself has two slots in it, each slot is made of a special material that is sensitive to IR. The lens used here is not really doing much and so we see that the two slots can 'see' out past some distance (basically the sensitivity of the sensor). When the sensor is idle, both slots detect the same amount of IR, the ambient amount radiated from the room or walls or outdoors. When a warm body like a human or animal passes by, it first intercepts one half of the PIR sensor, which causes a positive differential change between the two halves. When the warm body leaves the sensing area, the reverse happens, whereby the sensor generates a negative differential change. These change pulses are what is detected.
proximity_pirdiagram.jpg

The PIR Sensor

The IR sensor itself is housed in a hermetically sealed metal can to improve noise/temperature/humidity immunity. There is a window made of IR-transmissive material (typically coated silicon since that is very easy to come by) that protects the sensing element. Behind the window are the two balanced sensors.
proximity_pyrosensor.gif
proximity_pyrodiagram.gif
You can see above the diagram showing the element window, the two pieces of sensing material
proximity_pirinternalschem.gif
This image shows the internal schematic. There is actually a JFET inside (a type of transistor) which is very low-noise and buffers the extremely high impedence of the sensors into something a low-cost chip (like the BIS0001) can sense.

Lenses

PIR sensors are rather generic and for the most part vary only in price and sensitivity. Most of the real magic happens with the optics. This is a pretty good idea for manufacturing: the PIR sensor and circuitry is fixed and costs a few dollars. The lens costs only a few cents and can change the breadth, range, sensing pattern, very easily.
In the diagram up top, the lens is just a piece of plastic, but that means that the detection area is just two rectangles. Usually we'd like to have a detection area that is much larger. To do that, we use a simple lens such as those found in a camera: they condenses a large area (such as a landscape) into a small one (on film or a CCD sensor). For reasons that will be apparent soon, we would like to make the PIR lenses small and thin and moldable from cheap plastic, even though it may add distortion. For this reason the sensors are actually Fresnel lenses:
proximity_sensorsmagfresnel.gif
The Fresnel lens condenses light, providing a larger range of IR to the sensor.
proximity_linearfresnel.gif
proximity_pirfocal.gif
OK, so now we have a much larger range. However, remember that we actually have two sensors, and more importantly we dont want two really big sensing-area rectangles, but rather a scattering of multiple small areas. So what we do is split up the lens into multiple section, each section of which is a fresnel lens.
proximity_frenelled.jpg
Here you can see the multiple facet-sections
proximity_frenelling.jpg
This macro shot shows the different Frenel lenses in each facet!
The different faceting and sub-lenses create a range of detection areas, interleaved with each other. Thats why the lens centers in the facets above are 'inconsistant' - every other one points to a different half of the PIR sensing element
proximity_NL11NH.gif
proximity_NL11NH-side.gif
Here is another image, more qualitative but not as quantitative. (Note that the sensor in the Adafruit shop is 110° not 90°)
proximity_rounddetectlens.gif

Microphone:
https://www.kitronik.co.uk/3310-microphone-insert-pcb-mount-pack-of-5.html

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