Real Time Vehicle Tracking System using GPS/GSM/GPRS Technology and Web ...

Design and implementation of vehicle tracking system using GPS/GSM/GPRS technology and web application

ABSTRACT:

An efficient vehicle tracking system is designed and implemented for tracking the movement of any equipped vehicle from any location at any time. The proposed system made good use of a popular technology that combines a Smartphone application with a microcontroller. This will be easy to make and inexpensive compared to others. The designed in-vehicle device works using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global system for mobile communication / General Packet Radio Service (GSM/GPRS) technology that is one of the most common ways for vehicle tracking. The device is embedded inside a vehicle whose position is to be determined and tracked in real-time. A microcontroller is used to control the GPS and GSM/GPRS modules.

The vehicle tracking system uses the GPS module to get geographic coordinates at regular time intervals. The GSM/GPRS module is used to transmit and update the vehicle location to a database. A Smartphone application is also developed for continuously monitoring the vehicle location. The Google Maps API is used to display the vehicle on the map in the Smartphone application. Thus, users will be able to continuously monitor a moving vehicle on demand using the Smartphone application and determine the estimated distance and time for the vehicle to arrive at a given destination. In order to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the system, this paper presents experimental results of the vehicle tracking system and some experiences on practical implementations.

INTRODUCTION:

The GPS-GPRS based tracking system is a system that makes use of the Global Positioning System GPS to determine the precise location of a vehicle to which the device is attached. When a large number of objects or vehicles were spread all over the ground, the owner of corporation needs to keep track for fuel saving, security purposes…etc. A tracking system is required to determine the location of any object at any given time and the distance travelled. Also, the need for a tracking system in users vehicle is used to prevent any kind of theft since police can use tracking reports to locate a stolen vehicle location. GPRS and GPS based tracking system will provide effective, real time vehicle location report.

Vehicle safety has become one of the major issues faced today as nowadays vehicle theft is increasing. Objective of the project is to track the vehicles using IoT. IoT is expected to generate large amounts of data from diverse locations that is aggregated very quickly, thereby increasing the need to better index, store and process such data. Microcontroller is the central part of the hardware. It controls the entire working of the project. A GPS navigation device is a used that accurately calculates geographical location by receiving information from GPS satellites and sends that information to the microcontroller. The notification on the webpage is sent through GPRS module connected to the microcontroller. The information on the webpage can be accessed anywhere by any authorized user.

A GPS-GPRS based tracking system gives all the specifications about the location of a vehicle. The system utilizes geographic position and time information from the Global Positioning Satellites. The system uses an On-Vehicle Module consists of GPS receiver and GSM modem, the device resides in the vehicle to be tracked. In order to track the movement of the vehicle. Google Maps used for mapping the location. The GPS modem fetches the location and sends it to the server using GPRS. The integration of GPS and GSM was first established using SMS as a method of transmitting GPS coordinates. The inclusion of GPRS technology to transmit location coordinates to a remote server facilitates the tracking of object remotely using any computer connected to the web.

Software Tools:

1. Arduino compiler
2. Embedded C Code

Hardware Tools:

1. Arduino Uno
2. GSM Module for IOT
3. GPS module
4. 16x2 LCD Display
5. Power Supply

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