Design and Implementation of IoT based Vehicle tracking and Theft control

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Nowadays security of a vehicle is up most important to everyone. Everyday hundreds of vehicle is being stolen in a city. It is necessary to include a system to avoid theft of vehicles. To provide that an efficient vehicle tracking system is designed and implemented for tracking the movement of any equipped vehicle from any location at any time. The proposed system made good use of a popular technology that combines a Smart phone application with a micro controller. The designed in-vehicle device works using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global system for mobile communication / General Packet Radio Service (GSM/GPRS) technology that is one of the most common ways for vehicle tracking. The device is embedded inside a vehicle whose position is to be determined and tracked in real-time. A micro controller is used to control the GPS and GSM/GPRS modules. The vehicle system uses the GPS module to get geographic coordinates at regular time intervals. The GSM/GPRS module is used to transmit and update the vehicle location to a database. A Smart phone application is also developed for continuously monitoring the vehicle The Google Maps API is used to display the vehicle on the map in the Smart phone application. Thus, users will be able to continuously monitor a moving vehicle on using the Smart phone application and determine the estimated distance and time for the vehicle to arrive at a given destination.

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