Development of Low-cost GPS Tracker System for Coastal Area of Bangladesh

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to build a GPS tracker at a very low cost so that it can be used by a lot of people in coastal areas. The main objective of the low-cost GPS tracker is used to track down ships/shipments for the coastal area people of Bangladesh. It will show the position of the people when they are in the sea for fishing so that they do not cross the border of their country. Sometimes fishermen or other people in the sea cannot identify that they have crossed the border of the country. This device is proposed for them so that they know their position in the sea. The GPS tracker system has an alarm as well which will notify the user when it crosses the coastal boundary of Bangladesh. It has been seen that there are many existing GPS trackers in the market. The available GPS trackers are in the range of 3000 BDT and above whereas the low-cost GPS tracker proposed in this project will cost around 1600 BDT. The addition of the buzzer and the website on the low-cost GPS Tracker will be a revolution in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. With the large production of the low-cost GPS Tracker, the pricing per unit will be lowered considerably. The proposed prototype of the GPS tracker if went through different combinational parts will cost even lower and this will be worked on in the future to further reduce the cost.