Smart Bag – supported with mobile App

Abstract

The uses of bags, for travellers, have been an integral part of life. People face difficulties in securing their bags against theft during travel and luggage transit. The emerging Internet of Things technologies and IoT devices like sensors, microcontrollers, GPS/GSM modules, RFID tags/ readers, fingerprint scanner and many such components helps immensely in automation and can be used to collate vast amounts of data, ranging from time- series data from sensors to spatial data. The objective of this project is to make travel bags smart by using the IoT devices and utilizing the captured data to thwart from robbery of personal belongings and to eliminate theft to great extent. The proposed smart bag with a mobile application keeps owner credentials like finger print, passcodes and other security components collected and endorsed using the IoT devices can be used to track the bag.  And if the bag is stolen an emergency notifications sent to the owner mobile and used the geographical data to track down to the culprit in precision time before the stolen bag is mutilated. These and other features elaborated in this article helps the law enforcement officers track criminals easily. The smart bag will also benefit banks in secure fund transfer among automatic teller machines and business enterprises in exchanging confidential documents.