Transcript Gsm Based Voting Machine

GSM BASED VOTING
MACHINE
Project Guide:
Mr. Gulshan Dubey
Lecturer
ECE Department
Project Team:
Himanshu Rewal
Vikas Anand
Abhishek Bose
Sunil Kumar
Vikas Sagar
ABSTRACT
• Electronic voting systems have the potential to improve
traditional voting procedures by providing added
convenience and flexibility to the voter.
• GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) is the
most widely used mobile networking standard.
• In this project, an electronic voting scheme using GSM
mobile technology is presented.
• By integrating an electronic voting scheme with the GSM
infrastructure, we are able to exploit existing GSM
authentication mechanisms and provide enhanced voter
authentication and mobility while maintaining voter
privacy.
MOTIVATION
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Our inspiration behind this project was to showcase a
very efficient and secure form of voting system using
GSM network that can be adopted in India.
In democratic societies, voting is an important tool to
collect and reflect people’s opinions.
For a variety of reasons, voters may be unable to attend
voting booths physically, but need to vote remotely,
from home or while travelling abroad. Hence, there is
great demand for remote voting procedures that are
easy, transparent, and, most importantly, secure.
Overview
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This Project focuses on implementation of GSM
(GlobalSystem for Mobile Communication) based Voting
system.
With more than one billion users, the GSM
authentication infrastructure is the most widely
deployed authentication mechanism by far.
This project will showcase the use of this well-designed
GSM authentication infrastructure to improve mobility
and security of mobile voting procedures.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
•This
system is implemented using an embedded
microcontroller. The embedded microcontroller used
here is 8051.
•The device setup consists of a gsm handset, a voltage
supply circuit, a DTMF decoder IC, a microcontroller
circuit, an lcd circuit and a DB 09 cable to connect to the
serial port a computer.
•The voltage supply will be a 220v AC supply which we
will convert to a regulated 5v DC supply.
•The software used for programming will be Keil uVision
3 based on the C compiler.
INITIAL CIRCUIT LAYOUT
OTHER ELECTRONIC VOTING
TECHNIQUES
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To increase the efficiency and accuracy of voting
procedures, computerised voting systems were
developed to help collecting and counting the votes.
These include Lever Voting Machines, Punched Cards for
Voting, Optical Mark-Sense Scanners and Direct
Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems.
Internet voting was introduced to provide more
flexibility. Because of the inherited security
vulnerabilities of the Internet and computerised systems
in general, internet voting incurred a wide range of
criticism.
ADVANTAGES OF GSM based
VOTING MACHINE
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Democracy: All and only the authorised voters can vote,
and each eligible voter can vote no more than once.
Voters can also choose not to vote.
Privacy: All votes remain secret while voting takes place
and each individual vote cannot be linked by any
individual or authority to the voter who casts it.
Accuracy: The voting result accurately reflects voters’
choices. In this case, no vote can be altered, duplicated
or eliminated without being detected.
Fairness: No partial result is available before the final
result comes out.
Verifiability: where any voter can check that her own
vote has been considered in the tally.
SAMPLES
DB 09
cable
Future Work
Next we will try to connect the different circuits and
obtain the programming commands for sending and
receiving of the sms and its feedback.Our challenges
include:
 Connecting the GSM handset with microcontroller IC.
 Interfacing the handset with FORTRAN or C
programming.
 Using the DB 09 connector with the serial COM port
of the computer.