Project Overview

Many RV and industrial vehicle owners encounter a constant issue of keeping track of key fobs and ensuring the safety of the vehicles. In today's day and age, everything has become virtual. Even our wallets are now accessible through our phones. The next step in digitizing our world and ensuring better security is to add our key fobs onto our phones. With Ultra-Wideband technology that is now widely available and integrated into most smartphones, we are able to accomplish this next step. By having a digital key via our phones, we add an extra level of security, as most smartphone users have password or biometric safety features enabled. In order to develop such a system, we need to determine some solutions to a few problems. First, how might we use an application for a vehicle owner so that they can unlock their vehicle without a physical key? How might we use a UWB module for the engineers so that we can have a secure system that has precise distance measurements to the vehicle? Finally, how might we determine the accurate location of a phone for a user so that we can only unlock a vehicle when we are within a certain distance? Once we figure out these solutions, we will be able to unlock this new generation by using keyless entry.