DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING VEHICLE THEFT

摘要

Apparatus for securing a motor vehicle against theft uses a vehicle control device (22) connected by a signaling link to a first control node of a vehic le module essential to mobilization of the vehicle, the essential module furthe r having a power node connected to a power supply source (4). The apparatus comprises: an enable/disable control for conditionally disabling signaling along the signaling link, a user interface code input device (106) communicating with the enable/disable control via a secure command link, and an armored encapsulation encapsulating the disable control and the control node and physically configured to render inoperable any of the disable control, the signaling link and the control node upon being tampered with.