DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REAL TIME VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REAL TIME  

  VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM  

Feb. 2009  

Tracking   systems   were   first   developed   for   the   shipping   industries   to determine the position of ships and boats in the sea. Initially passive systems were  developed  to  support  in  tracking  and  navigation  for  location-based applications.  

For the applications that require real time location information of the vehicle, these   systems   cannot   be   employed,   because   they   store   the   location information in the internal storage that can only be accessed when vehicle is available. Recently, Automatic Vehicle Location  (AVL) systems are developed and deployed in numerous environments.  

 These  systems  are  capable  of  transmitting  vehicle's  location  information  in real time. In these systems, the device installed in the vehicle can transmit the location  information  in  real  time  to  a  remote  data  centre,  instead  of  storing into local storage, using some radio network.  

In  this  paper,  we  present  the  design  and  implementation  of  a  real  time  AVL system  that incorporates  a  hardware  device  installed  in  the  vehicle  and  a remote Tracking Server (TS).