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VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM USING ARM MICROCONTROLLER BASED ON GPS

K V L Bhavani1, B.T.P.Madhav2 P.Praveen Kumar3, K.Ravikumar4 P.Poorna Priya5, Pranob K Charles6
1,2,3,4,5 6

Asst Professor ,K L UNIVERSITY Assoc Professor, K L UNIVERISTY

kbhavani29@gmail.com

ABSTRACT: Vehicle Tracking System is a method used to track the location of the any vehicle around the globe. It is based on the GPS (Global Positioning System). Vehicle Tracking System has become a necessity for business owners around the globe trying to manage a fleet. This is used to locate the cars, motor bikes or any vehicles. The focus of a GPS based vehicle Tracking System is to make use of the knowledge of vehicles location and apply its network attributes such as the stops, timing, available alternative emergency routes and other such constraints in order to optimize opportunities for productivity and cost reduction. Now, that GPS based solutions are available and affordable, its benefits are no longer limited to long-haul trucking companies but also to a host of other services. This is used for company fleet management. GPS Module receives the latitude and longitude positions of the vehicle. These values are given to the ARM Microcontroller, which formats the GPS String in the form such that it is useful in the base station for further processing. Formatted GPS string will be send to the base station using GSM Modem in the form of SMS. In the base station received string will be shown on Data grid view of front-end software. In addition to showing current position details of vehicle in Data grid view, fleet management features .i.e. creating database of drivers and vehicles, Administrating of drivers and vehicles, Maintenance details of vehicles with Reminders are also implemented. Keywords: Global System for Mobile Communication, Inter Integrated Circuit, Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter, General Purpose Input/Output ports, Vectored Interrupt Controller , Common language runtime, Real View Compilation Tools

bikes or any vehicles. The focus of a GPS based vehicle Tracking System is to make use of the knowledge of vehicles location and apply its network attributes such as the stops, timing, available alternative emergency routes and other such constraints in order to optimize opportunities for productivity and cost reduction. Now, that GPS based solutions are available and affordable, its benefits are no longer limited to long-haul trucking companies but also to a host of other services. This is used for company fleet management. One of the fast-growing GPS applications is vehicle tracking. GPS-equipped fleet vehicles, public transportation systems, delivery trucks, and courier services use receivers to monitor their locations at all times. Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) is a technologically advanced method of remote vehicle tracking and monitoring using GPS. Each vehicle is equipped with a module that receives signals from a series of satellites, and calculates its current geographical location, speed, and heading. This information can be stored for later retrieval or, frequently, transmitted to a central dispatch/control location where it is displayed on a highresolution geographical map. Important factor in GPS is the much accuracy and speed. Global Positioning System (GPS) systems, combined with mobile telephony system (GSM), give you the power to rapidly locate or track any vehicle in your fleet (or, where applicable, other types of movable assets). You have the assurance of knowing where your fleet is, where it has been, and in which direction it is headed. Unlike some past systems, you do not need your own base station infrastructure and you are not limited to a local geographic coverage area. GPS is a satellite navigation system designed to provide instantaneous position, velocity and time information almost anywhere on the globe at any time, and in any weather. It gathers and stores GPS satellite signals, showing the exact location visited by the

I. INTRODUCTION
Vehicle Tracking System is a system used to track the location of the any vehicle around the globe. It is based on the GPS (Global Positioning System). Vehicle TrackingSystem has become a necessity for business owners around the globe trying to manage a fleet. This is used to locate the cars, motor

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vehicle, how long it was there, speeds en route and the time the vehicle left each location. We can remotely transmit the GPS position using the GSM network and SMS. We can send telemetry data as an SMS text message. This means that assets can be seamlessly and reliably tracked almost anywhere in the world.

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Creating & maintaining details of drivers & vehicles. Administration of fleets & Drivers. Vehicle maintenance

II. ARCHITECTURE
To implement tracking system, tracking unit is needed. In the design of tracking unit GPS Module and GSM Modem and microcontroller and EEPROM. So Microcontroller must have UART and I2C.Baased on these requirements Microcontroller selected is NXP LPC 2148, because it has two On-chip UART and I2C hardware. In addition to that it has SPI, SSP peripherals, which are very much useful for providing the future enhancements to the existing tracking system. A. VTS has three parts a. Vehicle side contains GPS module (LS 23066) GSM modem (Analogic SM01) NXP LPC 2148 EEPROM (AT24C256) LCD Display a) LED Display b) c) b. Base station contains GSM modem Personal Computer f) d) e) Do all initializations of UART, I2C, timer, then include as header files. Clear GPS array, set GPS ClearFlag. Enable UART1, In UART1 ISR check for starting character, set DollerFlag. Check for GPRMC, if OK set RMCFlag. Check for all above flags, and size is less than 70, then copy whole string into array. At last disable the interrupt. Clear GSM array, send AT command to check GSM network. Check for OK in consecutive locations of GSM array in UART0 ISR. Send Base station no using AT+CMGS, and have to send 13. Fig 2. Base Station Side Block diagram

Fig 1. Vehicle Side Block diagram

III. ALGORITHM

c. Front-end software Front-end software is created on c#.net, which will effectively optimize the fleet operations by providing the following features

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Call GPS function, it will copy all time lat, long, date in GPS array to corresponding arrays. Then call i2c_read function (). Send all messages as required in base station, wait for one minute then repeat the process.

IV. RESULTS
Five tracking units are fabricated, through which captured tracking information i.e. string (GPRMC), added VEHICLE ID, sent to base station using GSM network. Tested for different Routes in Hyderabad.

Fig 5. Showing Vehicle ID, Date, Time, and Lat/long related to Hyd.

V. CONCLUSIONS Five tracking units are fabricated, through which captured tracking information (GPS string), added VEH IDs, sent to base station using GSM network. Tested for different Position details are compared with corresponding values in Google map for routes in Hyderabad. Position details of vehicle displayed on data grid view of front-end software in the Base station.
Fig 3.Tracking unit

For respective routes for verification. Feature of Administration of fleets and drivers are provided as per efficient operation for fleet managers. A feature with maintenance of vehicles is provided in all views for the benefit to fleet management.

REFERENCES
1. M.Ibnkahla, Signal Processing For Mobile Communication Hand Book, CRC Press,pp.1-1 To 1-3, 2004 Wavecom, AT Commands Interface Guide, Version. 001/9.1, Pp.127-128, November 2001.

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Fig 4. User interface to download vehicle ID to Tracking unit