VEHICLE TRACKING AND MONITORING SYSTEM USING GPS AND GSM/GPRS

Abstract: This system offers an affordable and compact design implemented for tracking and monitoring vehicle's Instantaneous speed, peak speed, distance and current location with the help of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). The system consist of two parts, one is ambulatory and incorporated in the target vehicle which comprises of a GPS receiver, a microcontroller and a GSM modem with periphery display and power units. Other is stable at a remote place which consists of a GSM modem, being on the pivotal locus, a cell phone. The operator needs to send a message to GSM device, by which it gets activated. Once GSM gets activated it takes the last received vehicle's Instantaneous speed, peak speed, distance and current location values from the buffer and sends a SMS (short message service) to the particular cell number or laptop which is predefined in the program. Once message has been sent to the predefined device the GSM gets deactivated and GPS gets activated. By using the information in the SMS one can plot the location of vehicle on Google map