Design and Implementation of Anti-theft
Module for ATM machine
Prachi More
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department
NBN Sinhgad School of Engineering
Pune, India
prachimore15@gmail.com
Abstract— Frauds related to the ATM (Automatic Teller Machine)
are increasing day by day which is a serious issue. ATM security is
used to provide protection against these frauds. Though security is
provided for ATM machine, cases of robberies are increasing.
Previous technologies provide security within machines for secure
transaction, but machine is not neatly protected. The ATM
machines are not safe since security provided traditionally were
either by using RFID reader or by using security guard outside the
ATM. This security is not sufficient because RFID card can be
stolen and can be misused for robbery as well as watchman can be
blackmailed by the thief. So there is a need to propose new
technology which can overcome this problem. This paper proposes
a system which aims to design real-time monitoring and controlling
system. The system is implemented using Raspberry Pi and
fingerprint module which make the system more secure, cost
effective and stand alone. For controlling purpose, Embedded Web
Server (EWS) is designed using Raspberry Pi which serves web
page on which video footage of ATM center is seen and controlled.
So the proposed system removes the drawback of manual
controlling camera module and door also this system is stand alone
and cost effective.
Keywords—Raspberry Pi, Embedded Web Server,
Accelerometer.
I. INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, banking sector is one of the most important
parts of a human day to day life. Banking facilities are widely
used by people for their economies activities. Automatic
Teller Machine (ATM) is an electronic machine which is used
for accessing a bank account from anywhere without the help
of bank staff. The user can perform several banking activities
like cash withdrawal, money transfer with the help of ATM. It
is observed that the number of crimes related to ATM is
increased hence there is a necessity to provide enhances
security to ATM machine. Previous technologies provides
security to transactions for identification of authorized user.
But this is limited for secure transactions with ATM machine.
Previous works focused on biometric technique to provide
enhanced security to ATM transaction whereas GSM based
technique is also implemented for the same purpose. Whereas,
some system uses a combination of the both techniques.
Fingerprint
Module
PIC 18F46K22
Shriram Markande
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department
NBN Sinhgad School of Engineering
Pune, India
sdmarkande@sinhgad.edu
Currently, ATM security is given to the transactions only.
GSM based security is provided in which One Time Password
(OTP) is send to registered number for transaction [1]. The
combination of GSM and RFID technology is also used which
makes the system secure than only RFID technology [2]. This
technology has drawback so, biometric technology is
introduced for ATM transaction. In biometric method
fingerprint and face recognition system are used for ATM
transaction. Fingerprint recognition system [3-4] for ATM
transaction is used because each customer has unique
fingerprints. So this system provides more secure transaction
than GSM. Face recognition method is also used for security
in which face is recognized from 3 angles for authentication
purpose [5]. Also, security is enhanced with OTP & facial
recognition features [6]. In this system, current face image
matched with stored image and after matching the images
correctly, OTP will be send to registered number user have to
enter the OTP number for completing transaction. There are
many systems available for securing transactions, but there is
no particular system to secure ATM machine. So there is a
necessity to implement a system which monitors and control
the room where ATM machines are placed.
The design of proposed system is divided into two
parts. The first consists of a fingerprints reader placed at the
entrance of ATM machine used to identify the user is
authorized. The second part consists of Raspberry Pi module
which is placed inside ATM centre for capturing real-time
video and controlling purpose.
The rest of paper is organized as follows: Section II
presents the proposed system of the anti-theft module for
ATM machine and component used to design hardware.
Section III presents results obtained and section IV finally
discusses the conclusion
II. PROPOSED SYSTEM
There are some limitations in the previous technologies used
for ATM security, so there is a need to add some extra
features. The proposed work is anti-theft module for ATM
machine. The proposed system flow is shown in the Fig. 1.It
contains two electronic control units. One is for biometric
authentication and other is for shutter control. Raspberry Pi is
a mini-computer that plugs into any monitor or TV. It has 900
MHz quad-core ARM processor.
L Wireless Communication
C
D Use of wireless communication is an advantage of this
D Wi-Fi
i The computer and Raspberry Pi is connected using
s Wi-Fi router. RF transceiver is used for switching ON/OFF
p
l RF Tx/Rx DC Motor
a system is real-time monitoring system and efficient as
y compared to the previous systems. Proposed system uses
DC
Motor
RF
Tx/Rx
Raspberry Pi
Camera
Accelerometer ADC Buzzer
Fig. 1 Proposed System Diagram
The proposed system block diagram is shown in
Fig.1. There are two modules first module is placed outside
the door and the second module is placed inside the ATM
center.
The first module consists of the fingerprint which
is used for authentication purpose. When customer open
account in the bank, bank will collect the fingerprint of
each customer and store it in the fingerprint module.
Whenever customer wants to enter in ATM center for
transaction, fingerprint module is there for authentication.
If fingerprint matches with the database template, then the
door will be open. Else it will remain close.
The second module contains camera,
accelerometer, Wi-Fi module, RF module, buzzer, and DC
motor interfaced with Raspberry Pi. Whenever thieves tries
to steal complete ATM machine, then accelerometer sends
a notification to raspberry pi and buzzer get start ringing.
Also the shutter of ATM center is closed using DC motor.
For informing the police about this threat, an email will be
send to the nearby police station. The shutter will only be
opened only when the authorized person opens the shutter.
Camera is used for surveillance of ATM center from a
control room on the computer through Wi-Fi. Here router
is connected inside the ATM center for connecting number
of devices. These
connected devices used for monitoring the ATM center.
system.
AC whenever any user enters in the ATM center. This
following components:
A. Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer which has
1 GB RAM, quad-core ARM cortex A7 CPU, with 4 USB
ports, Ethernet, HDMI and Audio -Video port. The camera
module is interfaced to Raspberry Pi via USB port.
Operating System used for Raspberry Pi is “Raspbian”.
Python is high level programming language used for
writing program into Raspberry Pi. And Open Source
Computer Vision (OpenCV) is integrated on Raspberry Pi
for image processing.
B. Accelerometer Sensor
The accelerometer ADXL335 is small, thin, low power,
3-axis sensing device. It measures static as well as dynamic
acceleration resulting from motion, shock or vibration. The
ADXL335 is available in size of 4 mm × 4 mm × 1.45 mm. This
sensor gives excellent temperature stability, requires low
power supply around 1.8V - 3.6 V. It is analog device gives
output in analog form and Raspberry Pi accept digital input so
there is a need to add ADC between Raspberry Pi and
accelerometer
sensor.
Fig. 2 Accelerometer Adxl335 module
C. DC Motor
DC motor is interfaced to General Purpose Input Output
(GPIO) pins of Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi gets data from
accelerometer sensor and drives motors for opening or
closing ATM center’s shutter. Also, one more DC is
interface to PIC which is used to close the door in case of
unauthorized access.
D. RF Transceiver
CC2550 RF transceiver is used because it has low cost
and low power. The frequency range of this transmitter is
2400 – 2483.5 MHz. In this system RF transceiver is used
for wireless communication between Raspberry Pi and PIC
controller. To starts the recording of ATM center PIC
controller communicates with Raspberry Pi through the
transceiver.
E. Microcontroller PIC18F46K22
The proposed system uses the PIC18F46K22
microcontroller ICs. It is one of the most advanced
microcontrollers from Microchip. It is 40 pin, 8-bit
microcontroller and provides following features: 64K Bytes of
flash memory, 1024 bytes of EEPROM data memory, three 8- IV. RESULTS
bit and four 16-bit timers, five input-output port, two UART For authentication purpose, fingerprint module
(Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter). interface with the PIC18F46K22 is used. This module is
In proposed system PIC18F46K22 microcontroller has placed at the door of ATM center. This interfacing is shown in
been used because of following reasons. Fig. 5. Fingerprints successfully added and tested the
x It requires a low power supply. functionality. 4X4 keypad is used to send commands to the
x It has two UART which used for RF transceiver and fingerprint module for adding deleting the data into the
fingerprint module. database. Whenever authorized finger is scanned, gate is
x It is less expensive than other microcontrollers. opened with the DC motor and for unauthorized access, gate
F. Fingerprint module remained off.
In the proposed system, R305 fingerprint module has been
used for authentication. Whenever the user wants to enter the
ATM center, he has to verify his identity by placing his finger
on fingerprint module. Fingerprint module is interface with
PIC controller.

Fig. 3 Fingerprint module

This fingerprint module has UART serial communication. Fig. 5 Fingerprint module for authentication
The storage capacity of this fingerprint module is 256 bytes.
Verification speed required less than 1 second and scanning Hardware implementation of interfacing of Raspberry
speed is less than 0.5 second. Pi with Accelerometer, DC motor driver and camera is shown
in Fig. 6.
III. DESIGN AND CONSIDERATION
In this section a circuit diagram of proposed system
is discussed. The circuit diagram is prepared in Proteus tool as
shown in following Fig.4. As in Fig.4, there is a PIC
microcontroller interfaced with the RF transceiver and
fingerprint module.

Fig. 6 Interfacing Raspberry Pi with Accelerometer, camera & DC motor

Output of the system is shown in Fig. 7. Whenever the

accelerometer reading is normal, then the shutter remained
open. But when accelerometer gets tilted, then shutter is
closed and buzzer starts ringing. And in parallel, an email
regarding threat information is sent to the given email address.
Fig. 4 Circuit Diagram for Fingerprint Interfacing with PIC
Fig. 8 shows the real-time video footage on the web page.
The web page is created using Raspberry Pi. Web-enable
control is the advantage of this system.
 V. CONCLUSION

Nowadays, most of the ATM has been attacked by the robberies. In

this paper, a real-time monitoring system for ATM security based
on accelerometer sensor, camera module, and fingerprint module is
proposed. The proposed work concludes with the following points:
Fig. 7 Output that predicts Vibration is detected or not x A secure way of accessing an ATM by authorized persons
using fingerprint module.
x Eliminates the drawback of previous system like manual
controlling camera modules and doors.
x The system is cost effective as compare to existing manual
technique.
x The real time video of the ATM centre can be monitored
through web server which make ATM better safe from thefts.

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