AUTOMOBILE TRACKING

SYSTEM

By
NAVIN H. YADAV

Introduction: GPS
The

Global Positioning System (GPS) is

a space-based satellite navigation
system that provides location and time
information in all weather conditions,
anywhere on or near the Earth where
there is an unobstructed line of sight to
four or more GPS satellites.
GPS was created and realized
by the U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD) and was
originally run with 24
satellites.

Introduction: GPS
Tracking
Anything

can be tracked by the 'GPS Tracker'

including vehicle, person, or other asset to
which it is attached and to record the position
of the asset at regular intervals.
The recorded location data can be stored
within the tracking unit(Within the GPS device
memory), or it may be transmitted to a central
location data base using GPRS or GSM.
This allows the asset's location to be displayed
against a map backdrop either in real time or
when analyzing the track later, using GPS
tracking software.

History & Review

Automobile

Tracking Systems started first for

shipping industry.
Need for Automobile tracking system arose for
following reasons
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Finding the position of a stolen vehicle.

Receiving alert message if the vehicle deviates
from its route.
Keeping clients informed about the position of their
goods.
Efficient inventory management.
Driver can easily find the nearest emergency
center or device station.
Company knows exact position of goods, vehicles,
drivers and passengers.
Efficient management of fuel and time.

History & Review:

London Buses

London Buses Countdown sign

History & Review

London

was one of the first cities in the

world to deploy LED signs at bus stops that
indicate the arrival times of the next buses
at each equipped stop.

This

system, called Countdown, was piloted

in 1992 by London Buses on bus Route 18.

In

1993, London Transport

conducted a trial of Passenger Information
at Bus Stops on Route 18.
Ran between central and west London.

Classification
Typically

classified as "passive" and

"active/real time".

In

"passive" once the vehicle returns to a

predetermined point, the device is removed
and the data downloaded to a computer for
evaluation.

"Active"

devices also collect the same

information but usually transmit the data in
near-real-time via cellular or satellite
networks to a computer or data center.
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Passive Tracking

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Active Tracking

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 Initially,

Classification
(continued..)

Passive Systems were used to track

the route of personnel.

Real

time tracking systems emerged later

with more facilities and less effort required to
install and uninstall system periodically.

Active

systems were developed that transmit

automobiles data dynamically to a server or
a data center, generally using auto-update/
auto-upload facility.

Scope
Exploring

GPS Automobile tracking system.

Developing

Automatic Automobile Location

system using GPS for positioning information
and GSM/GPRS for information transmission
with following features:

Acquisition data from device from time to time

Transmission of location data to remote server.

Developing a web based software to display all

transmitted information to end user along with
displaying location of automobile on the map.

Architecture of Automobile
Tracking System

Components
Major

constituents of the GPS based

tracking are:
1.GPS tracking device(Data terminal)
2. GPS tracking server(Network)
3. Web Interface (Command centre)

1.GPS tracking device

The

device fits into the automobile and captures

the GPS location information apart from other
automobile information at regular intervals to a
central server.

This

device is capable of working in any GSM

network around the world.

In

our project to reduse the cost of GPS device we

are using an android application, called as GPS
Logger which has almost the same featues as the
GPS device.

 GPS

Device- Android app

Flow graph of GPS

hardware

Working of GPS Device

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Switch on the application.

Initialize the network.
Get GPS data.
Try to connect to GPRS.
If fails log data in non-volatile memory and
waits for fixed time period.
Again try to connect to the GPRS.
Try to connect to the service providers
server using the FTP protocol.
Send the GPS data in .txt format to the
server as a string.
Repeat again after every 5 seconds.

2. GPS tracking server

Base

of communication (hardware &

software)
Related directly to the management phase
Responsible for making connection with
the GSM modems.

Fetching the received GPRS

packets.

Performing some processing

and data management.

GPS tracking server

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Collecting

the .txt string of data.

Storing it into home/GPSLogger
Directory.

3. Web Interface
The UI determines how one will be
able to access information, view
automobile data, and elicit important
details from it.
Security issues.
Mechanism needed to authenticate
the user
The client are needed to be
visualized with respect to their
positions on the globe at accurate
distance.

Web Interface
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Allows

user to set which user are

authorized to monitor their realtime and presence history.
Users can manage their own list.
Google Maps are used for
visualization of position on map.
Any number of user at the same
time .

GUI Interface for GPS

Location

GUI Interface for Location

History

GUI Interface for Arrival Time

Functionality Provided
Zooming,

full extent: This tool is essentially to

browse a map and is required in any map
browsing.

Marker:

Specifying the exact location of the bus

on the map.

Measuring

distance: This feature measures the

distance between two specific points on a map
and gives the distance in kilometres.

Refresh:

The map auto refreshes after ever 5

seconds with the marker to the new location of
the bus.

Software Requirements
Operating System

Windows 2000, Windows XP,

Windows Vista, Windows 7,

Browser

Windows 8
Firefox

Web designing software

HTML/JavaScript

Server side Scripting language

PHP/ MySQL

Mapping Software

Google Maps API

Issues that were

involved

Selecting

an appropriate GPS device

suitable for our project.

Encoding

the
GPS
device
transmitting the data to our server.

for

Hosting

the server to receive the data.

Hosting

the front end for displaying the

data.

Risks that are involved

Availability

of minimum 3 satellite to plot

the automobile.

GPRS

connectivity at the transmition and

receiving end for continuous flow of data.

Continuous

connectivily of the internet.

Availability

of GPS Logger in future too.

Convincing

project.

bus

autorities

about

the

Thank You