A Smart real-time tracking system using GSM/GPRS technologies

Abstract

The cases of kidnapping and vehicle theft is increasing continuously. Therefore the need for mobile applications to track the vehicle in real-time become very important, so the user can track and monitor the vehicle using the mobile phone. This type of system sends large data to the server/cloud every day, which will increase the expenses every month for transmitting the data to this cloud/server. This paper introduced an embedded system that designed and implemented for vehicle tracking based on an android application, the main contribution of this paper is to reduce the data that sent from the embedded system in the vehicle to the cloud server via picking only necessary data for vehicle tracking from Global Position System GPS and decreasing the number of Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP request that transmitted to the cloud server by construing the transmission of information with the movement of vehicles. This system is divided into three parts: embedded system that is attached with the vehicle, cloud/server part which has the database of every single move every car did, and the monitoring part which is the main user interface so they can monitor the vehicle.