In this project a facial recognition application for automatic vehicle ignition is developed. This application is built using a Raspberry Pi as the hardware platform and the OpenCV library for computer vision as the software component. In this research the different methods for automobile security are analyzed, as well as, the different methods used to perform face recognition.  The main goal of this application is to enhance the security system of the vehicle, allowing to ignite the vehicle only by register users. To achieve this goal three main processes are carried out, face detection, data gathering, and training the system to grant access through face recognition.