FingerPrint Based Security System

Personal Safes are revolutionary locking storage cases that open with just the touch of your finger.
These products are designed as secure storage for medications, jewelry, weapons, documents, and
other valuable or potentially harmful items.These utilize fingerprint recognition technology to allow
access to only those whose fingerprints you choose. It contains all the necessary electronics to allow
you to store, delete, and verify fingerprints with just the touch of a button. Stored fingerprints are
retained even in the event of complete power failure or battery drain.These eliminates the need for
keeping track of keys or remembering a combination password, or PIN. It can only be opened when
an authorized user is present, since there are no keys or combinations to be copied or stolen, or
locks that can be picked.

In this project the fingerprint module from Miaxis Biometrics is used. It can store up to 750 finger
prints on its own memory. It can be controlled through its serial port.

The microcontroller AT89S52 interact with the module. You can Add a fingerprint, Delete a
fingerprint and Identify the fingerprint.

To add a fingerprint, just show the finger on the module and press the ADD key. Now the
microcontroller will send the ADD command to the module and the module will add it into the
memory.
To delete the finger follow the same as above.

To identify the finger, press the Identify button and if the finger matches then the Relay is
complemented.Also the fingerprint ID is displayed over the LCD display.

For more details about the Fingerprint module, please check the datasheet and you can get it from
the datasheets page.

Fingerprint recognition:

Fingerprint recognition or fingerprint authentication refers to the automated method

of verifying a match between two human fingerprints. Fingerprints are one of many
forms of biometrics used to identify individuals and verify their identity. This article
touches on two major classes of algorithms (minutia and pattern) and four sensor designs
(optical, ultrasonic, passive capacitance, and active capacitance).

Fingerprints:

A fingerprint in its narrow sense is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human
finger.[1] In a wider use of the term, fingerprints are the traces of an impression from the
friction ridges of any part of a human hand. A print from the foot can also leave an
impression of friction ridges. A friction ridge is a raised portion of the epidermis on the
fingers and toes (digits), the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot, consisting of one or
more connected ridge units of friction ridge skin.[1] These are sometimes known as
"epidermal ridges" which are caused by the underlying interface between the dermal
papillae of the dermis and the interpapillary (rete) pegs of the epidermis. These epidermal
ridges serve to amplify vibrations triggered, for example, when fingertips brush across an
uneven surface, better transmitting the signals to sensory nerves involved in fine texture
perception.[2] These ridges also assist in gripping rough surfaces, as well as smooth wet
surfaces.[3]

Impressions of fingerprints may be left behind on a surface by the natural secretions of

sweat from the eccrine glands that are present in friction ridge skin, or they may be made
by ink or other substances transferred from the peaks of friction ridges on the skin to a
relatively smooth surface such as a fingerprint card.[4] Fingerprint records normally
contain impressions from the pad on the last joint of fingers and thumbs, although
fingerprint cards also typically record portions of lower joint areas of the fingers.