Design and Implementation of Vehicle tracking & Monitoring

SystemPREPARED BY -

DARSHAN BHATT(150320704001)

SUBJECT: Research SkillsCOURSE: ME (EC) – SEM 1

• Safety and security of a vehicle is of prime most importance for its owner.• Vehicle tracking is needed in the unfortunate event of vehicle theft.• Vehicle tracking system silently records locations, movements and

speed of the vehicle in which it is placed. • Applications of vehicle tracking include monitoring driving behavior,

and parent with a teen driver and also used in theft prevention.• Stolen vehicle recovery can be done.• Surveillance applications

Introduction

Literature Review

Related Technologies and Techniques

• Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

• Mobile communication – X1 transmitter + GSM + Google MAP

• Wireless communication – GPS & GSM + Arduino UNO

• GPS/GSM/GPRS + Google MAP

• Embedded Technology – GPS/GPRS/GSM + Raspberry Pi

System Components for Vehicle Tracking

• A vehicle tracking system has four main components: A sensing and communication unit - to detect the presence of a vehicle

A classification unit - to classify the detected vehicle

Processing unit - for tracking

An energy source

WSN enables remote monitoring of objects and environment. WSN assists user to detect target and get the movement information of the target. To detect and monitor the target (vehicle), WSN use these hardware tools:

METHOD 1Vehicle Tracking using WSN

Honeywell’s HMC1002(Magnetic Sensor)

MicaZ(Wireless Medium)

MTS 310(Data Acquisition Board)

Experimental Setup

Constant Velocity Model(Too much error)

Constant Acceleration Model(Error at curved Paths)

Constant Jerk Model(Error at straight Paths)

+

Gives better results

Strength & Gaps

STRENGTH

• Magnetic sensor HMC1002 are extremely sensitive to earth’s magnetic field.• It detects the vehicle even at very

high speed.• They are cost effective.• High sensitivity & high reliability• Small in size

GAPS

• HMC1002 is low range magnetic sensor.• Measurements acquired from the

sensor node are noisy.• Tracking was implemented using

constant velocity model which is not an accurate algorithm.• This model did not perform well at

curved path.

METHOD 2 Vehicle Tracking System using GSM Modem & Google

Map• Hardware Required: GSM Modem, Transmitter,Receiver.• Software Required: Google Map, Diafaan, MySOL Database.

GSM Modem Intellitrac’s X1 Transmitter Google Map

Remote Vehicle Tracking System Block Diagram

Strengths & Gaps

• This system uses google map sevice to displaying the position of vehicle which is now becoming a one of the popular application from google.• Google map having a user friendly

graphical interface.• GSM allows user to send SMS up to

160 characters.• Cost effective

• The greatest disadvantage of GSM module is that multiple users share the same BW.• Electronic Interference occurred

during transmission via GSM.• Sometimes noisy results are generated

from the transmitter side.

STRENGTH GAPS

METHOD 3Vehicle Tracking System using GPS & GSM Modem

• Main components : GPS & GSM Modem, Micro-controller

u-blox NEO 6Q(GPS Module)

u-blox LEON-G100(GSM Module)

Arduino UNO(Microcontroller)

Vehicle Tracking System Block Diagram

Strengths & Gaps

• The system can provide improved customizability.• It has global operability.• GPS module used in this technique is

Cost effective and provides high performance.• Robust functionality and variety of

applications of Arduino UNO makes more functional the vehicle tracking system.

• GPS receivers are Electrostatic sensitive device (ESD) & require special precautions when handling.• Programming related problems

occured in use of Arduino UNO• Two basic places of failure are

faulty wiring and faulty coding with Arduino UNO.

STRENGTH GAPS

METHOD 4Vehicle Tracking using GPS/GSM/GPRS+Google

Map• Hardware components: GPS receiver, GSM, Arduino UNO R3• Software component: Google Map

GPS MODULE – EM-406 GSM/GPRS module – SM5100B

Layout of the Vehicle Tracking system

Strengths & Gaps

• This system uses google map service to displaying the position of vehicle which is now becoming a one of the popular application from google.

• System implementation cost is low as compared to the previous system.

• This system provides the facility of store the recorded data using MySQL database management system.

• Electronic Interference occurred during transmission via GSM.

• Facing complexity in implementation of programs in micro-controller.

• Other extra programming needed to access the MySQL database management system.

STRENGTH GAPS

• The proposed system works on GPS/GPRS/GSM SIM900A Module which includes all the three things namely GPS GPRS GSM. The GPS current location of the vehicle; GPRS sends the tracking information to the server and the GSM is used for sending alert message to vehicle’s owner mobile.• Vehicle tracking using recent technology – Raspberry Pi &

Smartphone application• Specified path inside raspberry pi file system which is taken from

owner’s android smartphone.

METHOD 5Vehicle Tracking & Monitoring using Embedded

Linux Board

• Hardware components : Raspberry pi board, temperature and gas leakage sensors, GPS/GPRS/GSM Module• Software requirement: MySQL database system, web browser

Hardware & Software requirement in Vehicle Tracking & Monitoring

LPG Gas leakage sensor (MQ-6)

Temperature Sensor

GPS/GPRS/GSM MODULE – SIM900A

• This module get communicate with Raspberry Pi via USB interface.

• The longitudes and latitudes of the current path received from GPS get compared with the stored longitudes and latitudes in the particular file format inside the database of raspberry pi. If that longitudes and latitudes not match with the stored one then wrong path detection alert massage will get sent to vehicle’s owner mobile.

• If the driver drives the vehicle in the wrong path, then the alert message is sent from the system to vehicle’s owner mobile and also speaker alert done using raspberry pi’s audio jack.

• If the vehicle’s speed goes beyond the specified limit then warning message will be sent from system to owner’s mobile.

• Traveler’s safety increased by using – gas leakage sensor, temperature sensor

Working of tracking system

System Interfacing

Flow chart of the safety system

Strengths & Gaps

• Easy detection mechanism of wrong path of the vehicle.• This system provides vehicle’s

current location and speed to the vehicle’s owner’s mobile.• Safety mechanism for students

also provided in this system.

• The system cost and implementation cost is increased due to the use of Raspberry Pi B+ module.

• System complexity increased because of raspberry pi and extra connections for different types of sensors.

STRENGTH GAPS

Future Scope • For future work, design of vehicle tracking system can be undertaken on multilayer PCB to reduce wire

complexities.

• We can implement a system using combination of constant acceleration and constant jerk model to get the advantages of both.

• Reliability can be improved and other additional features can be implemented with the tracking and monitoring module.

• We can also enhance this system by implementing carbon monoxide sensor to control the pollution cause by the vehicle.

• For better safety we can implement an alcohol sensor with the tracking system for detection of alcohol concentration in the breath of the driver.

References• P.Choudhari, “Development of vehicle tracking system using passive sensor”, IEEE,

International conference on communication, information & computing technology (ICCICT), ISBN: 978-1-4577-2078-9, Oct-2012.

• Hoang Dat Pham, Drieberg M, Chi Cuong Nguyen, “Development of vehicle tracking system using GPS & GSM modem”, IEEE, International conference on open system (ICOS), ISBN: 978-1-4799-0285-9, Dec 2013.

• Ahmad Fuad M.R, Drieberg M, “Remote vehicle tracking system using GSM modem & google map”, IEEE conference on sustainable utilization and development in engineering and technology, ISBN: 978-1-4673-4691-7, 2013.

• Seokju Lee, Tewolde G, Jaerock Kwon, “Design and Implementation of vehicle tracking using GPS/GSM/GPRS technology and Smartphone application”, IEEE world forum on Internet of Things (IoT), ISBN: 978-1-4799-3459-1, 2014.

• Shinde P.A, Mane Y.B, Tarange P.H, “Real time vehicle monitoring & tracking system based on embedded Linux board and Android application”, IEEE International conference on Circuit, power & computing technologies (ICCPCT), ISBN:978-1-4799-7075-9, March 2015.