Mobile Based Car Tracker

Project Supervisor:
Engr. Zeeshan Ahmed
Engr. Waqas Ahmed

Team Members:
Nisar Ahmed Rana EE-94
Sheikh M Arshad EE-113
Jabran Ghani EE-
Muhammad Shaban EE-
Zeeshan Akram EE-129

HIETC University
Department of Electrical Engineering
OBJECTIVE
We have made the car tracking system that works on the basis of the cell phone now one can track
his/her car himself/herself. The main objective of car tracking system is for security because when you
need to locate your car if it is stolen you have to contact some security or police but now you can detect
from your own resources. Digital signal processing is expanding and demanding area for research and
subsequent applications in its respective quarters. We have worked on car tracking system using cell
phones now one can locate his/her car using a cell phone.
Firstly there was no such system if you want to locate the car you have to locate via satellite but now it’s
easy for every single person to locate the car personally. Tracking or locating is easy with cell phone.
Your cell phone becomes a personal security tracker. The cell phone is installed in cars as a car tracking
device to locate your car easily. What you need is a enabled Java cell phone. A software needs to be
installed and running on the phone to track the phone. It does not use the traditional 'cell phone tower
triangulation' method. It provides better location accuracy with data is collected by the cell phone and
transmitted via the network. It may need extra accessories to be installed as a car locator and it might
work on the same phone models in other countries. The key advantages of this system are: This
powerful product which is capable of sending its position, price, size and simplicity of it. Full bi-
directional communication is available, so you can kill the engine, detect robbery, locate any number of
vehicles in real-time within seconds.
Car tracking in this way is easy to medium, depending on whether you want to permanently install the
cell phone in your car. But there are no guarantees that anything will work or that the tracking service
will continue to be available. The system will not work in the area where there is no network r no
service. The procedure f this system is as:
Install provided SIM card and battery and turn on the phone by holding it. To activate the phone, you
will need three numbers -- SIM (back of SIM card holder), activation number (back of SIM card holder),
and IMEI (bottom of the retail package). Make sure to select "activate wireless web". Your phone will
not be able to transmit data without this option. You can hardwire the phone to your car's battery only
do this if you are comfortable with your car's electrical system, and are willing to accept the risks. The
main features are that it is Web-based tracking and mapping. It is Phone-to-phone tracking that shows
location, speed, heading, altitude. It gives cell tower location report.

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THEORY
Tracking or locating through cell phone is easy now. Your cell phone becomes a personal security
tracker. The mobile phone kit can be installed in cars as a car tracking device to locate your car easily. It
does not use the traditional 'cell phone tower triangulation' method. It provides better location accuracy
with AGPS. GPS data is collected by the cell phone and transmitted via the network. It may need extra
accessories to be installed as a car locator.
With availability of detailed and accurate digital map, improved sensitivity and wide coverage of GSM
network in many countries today, fleet and sales managers now new tools available for them to make
their work easier and more efficient. Vehicle tracking based devices and mobile phone tracking in
combination offer tools that can make these managers’ tasks easier and much more effective. These
systems can help cut costs while offering better services to the customers. This paper briefly describes
the technology, basic functions, categories of application in the world and what are the benefits and key
items to look for when considering employing such technology.
Logistic planning and fleet management are critical to today’s businesses and industries. Everything we
consume is delivered to us via trucks. Even as Internet now offers alternatives to many of the traditional
functions of the supply chain, such as sales functions and retail stores, the one part that has not been
eliminated is the transportation of goods to and from businesses and delivery to consumers. Timely
delivery of supplies constitutes vital pipe lines that keep our factories producing in an efficient manner.
And delivery of goods to consumers make retails services easier and more convenient. In the whole
world, industrial complexes run on the wheels of trucking industry and home delivery is becoming more
a part of everyday life. To gain an advantage in the transportation industry, transportation and logistics
companies today are relying more and more on modern technology and tools to help optimize their
usage of transportation and delivery fleets.
The car tracking device or vehicle tracker is connected to a cell phone network server that allows anyone
to monitor the movements of a number of vehicles in real time. The tracking device records the position
at regular intervals of the asset to which the device is attached. Such trackers can be used for vehicles,
for children, for trucks and for properties to determine their exact location. Once you have selected your
tracking device, check that the SIM card you are using is not PIN security number protected. Insert your
SIM card in the device.
After inserting the SIM card, connect the unit to the power source or batteries and power on the system.
Look for a place where you can put the device so it is least likely to be found.
Currently, small companies are making use of car tracking devices for vehicles, and for trucks, to monitor
the movement of their company vehicles.  Delivery and taxi companies have installed trackers in all their
vehicles, to be able to know if their vehicles are late or on time, and are taking the assigned route.
Armored trucks carrying valuable goods use the device to track the vehicle's location if a robbery occurs.
Trackers have been installed in expensive cars for owners to have an easier way to track their stolen
vehicles and know where the vehicle is and the route it traveled. The effectiveness of this system is
directly proportional to the willingness and intelligence of the mobile phone network and police.

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Removing the outer covers of the mobile phone before mounting it can make it more unidentifiable.
When your car is stolen you can just give the police this link and let them get it that way as well.
Some important cautions/suggestions for the users are that:
The mobile connection should be a post-paid (contract) plan, unless you are confident that a
pre-paid plan would work.
This may not work if the car is taken to a place where there is no network at all.
Mount the mobile phone in such a way so as not to block its transmission or reception.
Don't forget the mobile number or its IMEI Number.
Keep the mobile phone number secret.
You will have to pay the monthly bill for the post-paid mobile connection. That will be the
minimum, since you'll not be making any outgoing calls.
Don't go around and tell everyone about your new car tracking system. Once known, it is very
easy to dismantle the system. Remember, a known trap is no trap at all!
Mount the whole system inconspicuously.
Try to mount the mobile phone very near to the driver seat.

A system that uses information available to cell phone operators as a matter of course to determine
location of any mobile phones within the GSM network. The system uses Timing Advance methodology
to determine relative position of the phone from a cell site. When combined with an accurate map of
the cell tower locations, a good position of the mobile phone can be calculated. This is done without any
action of the mobile phone user and does not send any information to the phone to know that it is being
tracked. A location server is installed at the mobile phone operator’s site connected to the internal
server which, in turn, serves as the gateway and connects to the mobile phone locator server via the
Internet. The diagram below shows how this works.

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Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) Signaling
Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is used for telecommunication signaling over analog
telephone lines in the voice-frequency band between telephone handsets and other communications
devices and the switching center. The version of DTMF that is used in push-button telephones for tone
dialing is known as Touch-Tone.

Multi-frequency signaling is a group of signaling methods, that use a mixture of two pure tone (pure sine
wave) sounds. Various MF signaling protocols were devised by the Bell System and CCITT. The earliest of
these were for in-band signaling between switching centers, where long-distance telephone operators
used a 16-digit keypad to input the next portion of the destination telephone number in order to contact
the next downstream long-distance telephone operator. This semi-automated signaling and switching
proved successful in both speed and cost effectiveness. Based on this prior success with using MF by
specialists to establish long-distance telephone calls, Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signaling was
developed for the consumer to signal their own telephone-call's destination telephone number instead
of talking to a telephone operator.

The following are the frequencies used for the DTMF (dual-tone, multi-frequency) system, which is also
referred to as tone dialing. The signal is encoded as a pair of sinusoidal (sine wave) tones from the table
below which are mixed with each other. DTMF is used by most PSTN (public switched telephone
networks) systems for number dialing, and is also used for voice-response systems such as telephone
banking and sometimes over private radio networks to provide signaling and transferring of small
amounts of data. We have used this system for Car Tracking purpose. When the user sends a signal of
specific frequency the corresponding operation will be performed.

Symbol Tone B [Hz]

1209 1336 1477 1633
Tone A [Hz]

697 1 2 3 A
770 4 5 6 B
852 7 8 9 C
941 * 0 # D

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FLOW CHART & Algorithm
The flow chart of the code is given in the figure and the
pseudo code is given below.

Pseudo Code:

i. Check until delayed steering output is high.

ii. Check Q if the output code represent 0 or 5.
iii. If Q output represent 0 then turn off the vehicle.
iv. If Q output represent 5 then turn on the vehicle.

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MATLAB CODE
#include <REGX51.H>
sbit q1=P1^0;
sbit q2=P1^1;
sbit q3=P1^2;
sbit q4=P1^3;
sbit std=P1^4;
sbit r1=P3^0;
sbit r2=P3^1;
sbit r3=P3^2;
sbit r4=P3^3;
void main()
{
int i=0;
q1=q2=q3=q4=std=0;
r1=r2=r3=r4=1;
while(1)
{
if(std==1)
{
if(q1==1&q2==0&q3==1&q4==0)
{
r1=r2=r3=r4=0;
}
else if(q1==0&q2==1&q3==0&q4==1)
{
r1=r2=r3=r4=1;
}
}
}
}

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RESULTS
Previously the car trackers had no such system but we have tried our level best to make such a system
that is based on cell phones. The cell is attached in a car where it is hidden and we can also observe the
conversation of the persons. The technology is totally dependent on cell phones it will do well in every
situation until and unless the car is in the area where there is no network coverage otherwise it is good.
We have personally implemented and has checked this system and it works very efficiently. The
improvement that can be done in it is that the new technology of mapping can be used in this system
due to which we can not only track the car but can specify its location.
With low labor rate and good highways, transportation and delivery service industry in the whole world
are areas of the highest competition. The purpose of using this new technology is to make companies
more efficient and thus more competitive. Now vehicle and mobile phone tracking systems are available
today complete with accurate street map. It is up to the fleet and sales managers to evaluate and
embrace them if he is to grow technically and stay ahead of the competitors.
Today mobile phone tracking is being employed by several companies to track and improve their
personnel and sales function management. As described above it is also being used as emergency
backup for vehicle theft situation. As technology improves and its tracking becomes more accurate, it is
seen that mobile phone tracking will become more useful. When combines with the issue of consumer
and public safety, mobile phone tracking should become common in the near future.

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CONCLUSION
The model of car tracking is closely observed and the regulation of it has been designed, implemented in
a good way and analyzed by using different parameters and it has proved it. Varieties of experiments
were performed over the last few days. The analyses based on the results obtained on the proposed
system show significant success by exhibiting notable proportion of parameters. Though various aspects
of it are catered for the implementation exercise of the results, nevertheless, we understand that it is so
demanding area for research.
Ever been stunned by the disappearance of your mobile phone when you were quite sure you had
locked it up securely!! If you had installed a GPS mobile phone-tracking device, you would not be tearing
out your hair and screaming in anger. Installing such a device could make you calmer as it would help
you to track the location of the car. Of course, in such a scenario, don’t tear off in a rush to heroically
rescue your car! Contact the police and let their efficient teams track down the car and give the thief a
nasty surprise.
It is so demanding and absorbing area that the work could substantially be carried forward in the
following directions as a future work:
It can be used for military purposes after some enhancements in it then a commander can see
his tanks from a far distance away from the battle.
Data loggers can be used in the cell phones which will save the information if one will ask to
show the previous location of car may be 2, 3 days ago it will show you the location so we think
it could be a great achievement.
Data pusher can be used to follow your instruction of interval if you set an interval of 1 hour
then after one hour this data pusher will send you the location. So it is a very appreciative
enhancement but we have to use the AT commands in the cell phones.
Data pullers are also known as GPS transponders. Contrary to data pushers, that send the
position of the devices at regular intervals, these devices are always-on and can be queried as
often as required. This technology is not in widespread use, but an example of this kind of
device is a computer connected to the Internet and running gpsd.These can often be used in the
case where the location of the tracker will only need to be known occasionally e.g. placed in
property that may be stolen.

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