04-06-2012, 11:07 AM
GPS BASED VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM
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Abstract
Vehicle Tracking System is a method used to
track the location of the any vehicle around the globe. It
is based on the GPS (Global Positioning System).
Vehicle Tracking System has become a necessity for
business owners around the globe trying to manage a
fleet. This is used to locate the cars, motor bikes or any
vehicles. The focus of a GPS based vehicle Tracking
System is to make use of the knowledge of vehicle’s
location and apply its network attributes such as the
stops, timing, available alternative emergency routes and
other such constraints in order to optimize opportunities
for productivity and cost reduction. Now, that GPS based
solutions are available and affordable, its benefits are no
longer limited to long-haul trucking companies but also
to a host of other services. This is used for company fleet
management.
GPS Module receives the latitude and longitude
positions of the vehicle. These values are given to the
ARM Microcontroller, which formats the GPS String in
the form such that it is useful in the base station for
further processing. Formatted GPS string will be send to
the base station using GSM Modem in the form of SMS.
In the base station received string will be shown on Data
grid view of front-end software. In addition to showing
current position details of vehicle in Data grid view, fleet
management features .i.e. creating database of drivers and
vehicles, Administrating of drivers and vehicles,
Maintenance details of vehicles with Reminders are also
implemented.
Keywords: Global System for Mobile Communication,
Inter Integrated Circuit, Universal Asynchronous
Receiver Transmitter, General Purpose Input/Output
ports, Vectored Interrupt Controller , Common language
runtime, Real View Compilation Tools
1.Introduction: Vehicle Tracking System is a system
used to track the location of the any vehicle around the
globe. It is based on the GPS (Global Positioning
System). Vehicle Tracking System has become a
necessity for business owners around the globe trying to
manage a fleet. This is used to locate the cars, motor
bikes or any vehicles. The focus of a GPS based vehicle
Tracking System is to make use of the knowledge of
vehicle’s location and apply its network attributes such as
the stops, timing, available alternative emergency routes
and other such constraints in order to optimize
opportunities for productivity and cost reduction. Now,
that GPS based solutions are available and affordable, its
benefits are no longer limited to long-haul trucking
companies but also to a host of other services. This is
used for company fleet management.
One of the fast-growing GPS applications is vehicle
tracking. GPS-equipped fleet vehicles, public
transportation systems, delivery trucks, and courier
services use receivers to monitor their locations at all
times. Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) is a
technologically advanced method of remote vehicle
tracking and monitoring using GPS. Each vehicle is
equipped with a module that receives signals from a
series of satellites, and calculates its current geographical
location, speed, and heading. This information can be
stored for later retrieval or, frequently, transmitted to a
central dispatch/control location where it is displayed on
a high-resolution geographical map.
Important factor in GPS is the much accuracy
and speed. Global Positioning System (GPS) systems,
combined with mobile telephony system (GSM), give
you the power to rapidly locate or track any vehicle in
your fleet (or, where applicable, other types of movable
assets). You have the assurance of knowing where your
fleet is, where it has been, and in which direction it is
headed. Unlike some past systems, you do not need your
own base station infrastructure and you are not limited to
a local geographic coverage area. GPS is a satellite
navigation system designed to provide instantaneous
position, velocity and time information almost anywhere
on the globe at any time, and in any weather. It gathers
and stores GPS satellite signals, showing the exact
location visited by the vehicle, how long it was there,
speeds en route and the time the vehicle left each
location. We can remotely transmit the GPS position
using the GSM network and SMS. We can send telemetry
data as an SMS text message. This means that assets can
be seamlessly and reliably tracked almost anywhere in
the world.
2. Architecture: To implement tracking system,
tracking unit is needed. In the design of tracking unit
GPS Module and GSM Modem and microcontroller and
EEPROM. So Microcontroller must have UART and
I2C.Baased on these requirements Microcontroller
selected is NXP LPC 2148, because it has two On-chip
UART and I2C hardware. In addition to that it has SPI,
SSP peripherals, which are very much useful for
providing the future enhancements to the existing
tracking system.
VTS has three parts
a. Vehicle side contains
GPS module (LS 23066)
GSM modem (Analogic SM01)
NXP LPC 2148
EEPROM (AT24C256)
LCD Display
National Conference on Signal Processing & Communication Systems, NCSPCS 2010, Feb 25-26, 2010
Dept. of ECE, R.V.R. & J.C. College of Engineering, Chowdavaram, Guntur-19, A.P., India 628
LED Display
b. Base station contains
GSM modem
Personal Computer
c. Front-end software
Front-end software is created on c#.net, which will
effectively optimize the fleet operations by providing the
following features
o Creating & maintaining details of drivers &
vehicles.
o Administration of fleets & Drivers.
o Vehicle maintenance
Fig 1. Vehicle Side Block diagram
Fig 2. Base Station Side Block diagram
3. Algorithm
a) Do all initializations of UART, I2C, timer, then
include as header files.
b) Clear GPS array, set GPSClearFlag.
c) Enable UART1, In UART1 ISR check for
starting character, set DollerFlag.
d) Check for GPRMC, if OK set RMCFlag.
e) Check for all above flags, and size is less than
70, then copy whole string into array. At last
disable the interrupt.
f) Clear GSM array, send AT command to check
GSM network.
g) Check for OK in consecutive locations of GSM
array in UART0 ISR.
h) Send Base station no using AT+CMGS, and
have to send 13.
i) Call GPS function, it will copy all time lat, long,
date in GPS array to corresponding arrays. Then
call i2c_read function ().
j) Send all messages as required in base station,
wait for one minute then repeat the process.
4. Results: five tracking units are fabricated,
through which captured tracking information i.e.
string (GPRMC), added VEHICLE ID, sent to
base station using GSM network. Tested for
different Routes in Hyderabad.
5. Conclusions:
Five tracking units are fabricated, through which
captured tracking information (GPS string), added
VEH IDs, sent to base station using GSM network.
Tested for different Routes in Hyderabad. Position
details of vehicle displayed on data grid view of
front-end software in the Base station. Position
details are compared with corresponding values in
Google map for respective routes for verification.
Feature of Administration of fleets and drivers are
provided as per efficient operation for fleet
managers. A feature with maintenance of vehicles is
provided in all views for the benefit to fleet
[attachment=24079]
Abstract
Vehicle Tracking System is a method used to
track the location of the any vehicle around the globe. It
is based on the GPS (Global Positioning System).
Vehicle Tracking System has become a necessity for
business owners around the globe trying to manage a
fleet. This is used to locate the cars, motor bikes or any
vehicles. The focus of a GPS based vehicle Tracking
System is to make use of the knowledge of vehicle’s
location and apply its network attributes such as the
stops, timing, available alternative emergency routes and
other such constraints in order to optimize opportunities
for productivity and cost reduction. Now, that GPS based
solutions are available and affordable, its benefits are no
longer limited to long-haul trucking companies but also
to a host of other services. This is used for company fleet
management.
GPS Module receives the latitude and longitude
positions of the vehicle. These values are given to the
ARM Microcontroller, which formats the GPS String in
the form such that it is useful in the base station for
further processing. Formatted GPS string will be send to
the base station using GSM Modem in the form of SMS.
In the base station received string will be shown on Data
grid view of front-end software. In addition to showing
current position details of vehicle in Data grid view, fleet
management features .i.e. creating database of drivers and
vehicles, Administrating of drivers and vehicles,
Maintenance details of vehicles with Reminders are also
implemented.
Keywords: Global System for Mobile Communication,
Inter Integrated Circuit, Universal Asynchronous
Receiver Transmitter, General Purpose Input/Output
ports, Vectored Interrupt Controller , Common language
runtime, Real View Compilation Tools
1.Introduction: Vehicle Tracking System is a system
used to track the location of the any vehicle around the
globe. It is based on the GPS (Global Positioning
System). Vehicle Tracking System has become a
necessity for business owners around the globe trying to
manage a fleet. This is used to locate the cars, motor
bikes or any vehicles. The focus of a GPS based vehicle
Tracking System is to make use of the knowledge of
vehicle’s location and apply its network attributes such as
the stops, timing, available alternative emergency routes
and other such constraints in order to optimize
opportunities for productivity and cost reduction. Now,
that GPS based solutions are available and affordable, its
benefits are no longer limited to long-haul trucking
companies but also to a host of other services. This is
used for company fleet management.
One of the fast-growing GPS applications is vehicle
tracking. GPS-equipped fleet vehicles, public
transportation systems, delivery trucks, and courier
services use receivers to monitor their locations at all
times. Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) is a
technologically advanced method of remote vehicle
tracking and monitoring using GPS. Each vehicle is
equipped with a module that receives signals from a
series of satellites, and calculates its current geographical
location, speed, and heading. This information can be
stored for later retrieval or, frequently, transmitted to a
central dispatch/control location where it is displayed on
a high-resolution geographical map.
Important factor in GPS is the much accuracy
and speed. Global Positioning System (GPS) systems,
combined with mobile telephony system (GSM), give
you the power to rapidly locate or track any vehicle in
your fleet (or, where applicable, other types of movable
assets). You have the assurance of knowing where your
fleet is, where it has been, and in which direction it is
headed. Unlike some past systems, you do not need your
own base station infrastructure and you are not limited to
a local geographic coverage area. GPS is a satellite
navigation system designed to provide instantaneous
position, velocity and time information almost anywhere
on the globe at any time, and in any weather. It gathers
and stores GPS satellite signals, showing the exact
location visited by the vehicle, how long it was there,
speeds en route and the time the vehicle left each
location. We can remotely transmit the GPS position
using the GSM network and SMS. We can send telemetry
data as an SMS text message. This means that assets can
be seamlessly and reliably tracked almost anywhere in
the world.
2. Architecture: To implement tracking system,
tracking unit is needed. In the design of tracking unit
GPS Module and GSM Modem and microcontroller and
EEPROM. So Microcontroller must have UART and
I2C.Baased on these requirements Microcontroller
selected is NXP LPC 2148, because it has two On-chip
UART and I2C hardware. In addition to that it has SPI,
SSP peripherals, which are very much useful for
providing the future enhancements to the existing
tracking system.
VTS has three parts
a. Vehicle side contains
GPS module (LS 23066)
GSM modem (Analogic SM01)
NXP LPC 2148
EEPROM (AT24C256)
LCD Display
National Conference on Signal Processing & Communication Systems, NCSPCS 2010, Feb 25-26, 2010
Dept. of ECE, R.V.R. & J.C. College of Engineering, Chowdavaram, Guntur-19, A.P., India 628
LED Display
b. Base station contains
GSM modem
Personal Computer
c. Front-end software
Front-end software is created on c#.net, which will
effectively optimize the fleet operations by providing the
following features
o Creating & maintaining details of drivers &
vehicles.
o Administration of fleets & Drivers.
o Vehicle maintenance
Fig 1. Vehicle Side Block diagram
Fig 2. Base Station Side Block diagram
3. Algorithm
a) Do all initializations of UART, I2C, timer, then
include as header files.
b) Clear GPS array, set GPSClearFlag.
c) Enable UART1, In UART1 ISR check for
starting character, set DollerFlag.
d) Check for GPRMC, if OK set RMCFlag.
e) Check for all above flags, and size is less than
70, then copy whole string into array. At last
disable the interrupt.
f) Clear GSM array, send AT command to check
GSM network.
g) Check for OK in consecutive locations of GSM
array in UART0 ISR.
h) Send Base station no using AT+CMGS, and
have to send 13.
i) Call GPS function, it will copy all time lat, long,
date in GPS array to corresponding arrays. Then
call i2c_read function ().
j) Send all messages as required in base station,
wait for one minute then repeat the process.
4. Results: five tracking units are fabricated,
through which captured tracking information i.e.
string (GPRMC), added VEHICLE ID, sent to
base station using GSM network. Tested for
different Routes in Hyderabad.
5. Conclusions:
Five tracking units are fabricated, through which
captured tracking information (GPS string), added
VEH IDs, sent to base station using GSM network.
Tested for different Routes in Hyderabad. Position
details of vehicle displayed on data grid view of
front-end software in the Base station. Position
details are compared with corresponding values in
Google map for respective routes for verification.
Feature of Administration of fleets and drivers are
provided as per efficient operation for fleet
managers. A feature with maintenance of vehicles is
provided in all views for the benefit to fleet