Design of an Improved Cost Effective Electronic Locking System

The design of an intelligent electronic safe provides a better way of ensuring the security and safety of data. The use of microcontroller as an embedded technology in controlling date is desirable to implement a lock mechanism to solve man's problems in homes, offices and regular automobiles. This paper proposes a design of an improved cost effective electronic locking system which restricts access to certain important data and valuables to certain individuals. The electronic safe prompts the user or access seeking person for certain security data, processes the data and takes logical decisions which leads to the granting of access or denying of access to restricted safe. The most important strength of the system is the ease with which a user can easily change personal access key without contacting any professional or programmer. The system removes emphasis from mechanical mechanisms for protection of valuable properties and emphasized on the strength of keyless electronic locks.