Design of an In-vehicle Anti-theft Component

An in-vehicle anti-theft approach, named GIVAC (group identification of in-vehicle anti-theft component), is proposed. The approach proposes that each valuable appliance should be integrated with an GIVAC component which will not enable the functions of the appliances if it should find itself is illegally moved to another car. Each GIVAC-enabled appliance would authenticate itself with the authorized center of the car, upon power-on, to see if it is in the right car (group). The authorized center can also be controlled by the immobilizer. Such an approach would aggregate the anti-theft capability of cars.