Design and Manufacture a Vehicle Auxiliary System Model Controlled by Using Smartphone

Abstract

This paper presents a design and manufacture of an automotive auxiliary electrical system (AAES) model which was controlled by using a smartphone. The auxiliary electrical systems are included security systems, comfort and safety systems, lighting systems and information systems. This research focused on the lighting systems (front lighting, rear lighting, compartment lighting, and signalization lighting) and comfort and safety systems (windshield wiper and window cleaning). Those systems are connected to an Arduino module then an android smartphone device was used to control the systems. An application for the android device was built by using MIT App inventor. In this study, a user interface was set on the android device and the systems via a Bluetooth channel. The experiments for control systems were confirmed that we can apply for the modern vehicle control system.