CAN Based Vehicle Health Monitoring System

This paper deals with developing an embedded system for detecting the vehicle condition by monitoring the internal parameters that are used in evaluating the vehicle‘s current health condition. Traveler information plays a critical role in supporting safety, security, mobility, and in improving the reliability of travel. This traveler information can be a continuous data on performance of the vehicle and the status of its internal components. In this project, CAN is used for communicating between the ARDUINO and the connected sensors. CAN helps in monitoring sensor data. This device is basically based on ARDUINO system which is the heart of this project that controls vibration detection sensor; alcohol detection sensor, ultrasonic sensor and temperature sensor are used. These sensed data are transferred to the controller in the form of packet frames and by using GSM/GPS and public mobile network services all the information can be transferred to web server and mobile phone. Many systems are developed for sensor monitoring.