Design and Implementation of a Fingerprint Lock System

Abstract

The use of fingerprint for identification has been employed in law enforcement for about a century. A fingerprint locker system using microcontroller uses fingerprint recognition system as a process of verifying the fingerprint image to open the electronic lock. This research highlights the development of fingerprint verification system using Arduino 1.6.3. Verification is completed by comparing the data of authorized fingerprint image with incoming fingerprint image. The incoming fingerprint image will first go through the extraction and filtering processes through which the information about it is obtained. Then the information of incoming fingerprint image will undergo the comparison process to compare it with authorized fingerprint image. In this work, the fingerprint module was trained to learn and identify whether the incoming fingerprint image is genuine or forgery. A much broader application of fingerprint is for personal authentication, for instance to access a computer, a network, an ATM-machine, a car or a home.