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Vehicle Tracking system with GPS GSM
Interface and Self Created Map
Modi Nirav D.
Department of Electronics, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University,
College of Engineering Pune, Pune
ABSTRACT
Safety and security of vehicle is primary thing for its owner. So, they always look for better mechanism for prevention. Also for
company owner or manager it is necessary to know their language vehicle location. In any vehicle tracking unit, there are GPS
receiver, controller and GSM module at transmitter side whereas at receiver side, there are GSM module and software system for
locating the position of the vehicle. The map of every city is available on the map with co-ordinate of each place.
Keyword: GSM, GPS, ARM7, Database, Tracking
1. INTRODUCTION
Vehicle tracking technology allows us to see our vehicles locations, speed of the vehicle and other features on the
computer screen with a help of GPS (Global Positioning System) technology, GSM network, digital mapping and
specialized tracking software. The GPS satellites transmit information like longitude, latitude, altitude, Universal time etc
to the GPS receiver. For calculation of this information, at least three GPS satellites are needed. But main disadvantage of
GPS is that it need direct line of sight. Its accuracy suffers at indoor locations.
Once the receiver knows its position (only latitude and longitude not consider altitude) it is stored in the microcontroller’s
memory place in the vehicle. After predefined interval (in this paper interval=15sec), latest location of vehicle is sent to
remote location using GSM network. At remote location, PC gets this information and placed on GOOGLE map using
internet access whereas in our map internet access doesn’t require. Before the GSM network established, we can get real
time tracking using the satellite, which was very expensive. Technologies Involved:
 GPS – Global Positioning System
 GSM – Global System of Mobile
 GIS – Geographical Information system
GIS is software with detailed maps of the every place’s with longitude and latitude used to locate the address of a vehicle
fitted with GPS system. With proper GIS, we get exact or nearby location of the vehicle.
2. WORKING
At transmitter side, we interfaced GPS module and GSM module with ARM controller and displayed the latitude and
longitude of place on the LCD. For better performance, interrupt routine of ARM7 is used. After extracting latitude and
longitude from receiving data of GPS module, the data is sent to previously saved number using GSM module. Also, I
design power supply for GPS module, GSM module and ARM7. The GPS module need +5V supply whereas GSM and
ARM7 need +12V power supply. For +5V power supply, 7805 IC is used.
At receiver side, GSM module receives position of the vehicle and locates is position on the created map as well as
GOOGLE Map. For locating the position on Google map, Google API is used. Here GOOGLE map is used for
verification.
Figure 1 Block Diagram
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3. IMPLEMENTATION
3.1.1 Flow chart for sending remote location
Figure 2 Flow Chart For Send Message At Remote Location
Figure 2 shows the steps to send the latitude and longitude information to the remote location.
 First connect the GSM modem to the UART1 of the ARM7 kit.
 Connect the GPS modem to UART0 of the ARM7 kit.
 GPS modem sends the latitude and longitude data along with many other data continuously in NMEA format.
 This latitude and longitude information from line “$GPGGA” is extracted in ARM7.
 This extracted data is sent to remotely located server using GSM modem.
3.1.2 Flow Chart for Mapping Position on Customized Map
Figure 3 Flow Chart For Mapping Position On Customized Map
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Figure 3 shows the how to locate position on our customize map: First open the VB project and select a form and set its dimension according to map requirement.
 In VB initialize the GSM modem by sending AT commands and also set baud rate.
 Open access database which contains the place information which we had taken earlier and read all the entries.
 Now locate the places on our customize map.
 As GSM receives any message, we get location information and it indicates the point of location on our customize
map.
 In VB, We convert the latitude and longitude into the degree.
 So we can continuously trace the vehicle by this system.
4. RESULTS/SIMULATION
4.1 Database Making Using GPS USB Module
GPS module gives data in a NMEA format. For building own database/map, I collect the latitude and longitude
information of about 50 places and verified this database by revising all the places three times. This process was taken out
throughout the year for observing the variation. Some part of the database is shown in table-1.
Table 1 Database Collected Using GPS
Average Latitude
Average Longitude
Location
Degree
Degree Minute
Seconds
Degree
Degree Minute
Seconds
Scet
21.182215°
21°10'55.97"
72.808458°
72°48'30.44"
Big Bazaar
21.159266°
21°09'33.57"
72.770816°
72°46'14.93"
Chopati- sugar 'n' spice
21.183984°
21°11'02.34"
72.806354°
72°48'22.87"
B> more over bridge
Crazy Bite Hotel
21.172424°
21.163960°
21°10'20.72"
21°09'0.25"
72.792437°
72.778992°
72°47'32.77"
72°46'44.11"
4.2 Database Information Verified On Google Earth
This information can be used to locate the position of vehicle on the GIS using Google earth which will look like as
shown in figure 7 below.
Figure 4 Google Earth Verification
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4.3 Proteus Simulation Of The Whole Implementation At Vehicle Side
Figure 5 Proteus Simulation Of The Whole Implementation
Figure 6 Power Supply Design in Simulation
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4.4 Google Map And created Map
Figure 7 Google Map and Our Map
4.5 Map For 10 Meter Range
Figure 8 Map For 10 Meter Range
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4.6 Tracking Result
Figure 9 Vehicle Location on Google Map as well as Created Map
5. CONCLUSION
From this, we get location with less than 10m error in case of slow speed and clear environment. But in cloudy
environment, error is higher. Also we get erroneous location in case of the indoor position or area in which more
tall buildings are there.
References
[1] Geolocation and Assisted-GPS ,Goran M. Djuknic1 and Robert E. Richton Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
[2] Ambade Shruti Dinkar, S.A Shaikh, “Design and Implementation Of Vehicle Tracking System Using GPS”, Journal
of Information Engineering and Applications, Vol 1, No.3, 2011
[3] Principal and application of GSM , by Vijay k. Garg
[4] ARM system on chip Architecture , by Steve Furber,
[5] Programmer’s guide for ARM controllers by HITEX ltd., U.K.
[6] http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/LPC2141_42_44_46_48.pdf
[7] http://www.keil.com/arm/uv-gettingstarted.asp
[8] http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm
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