Bus Tracking System

Vehicle tracking system is a well-established technology in this era which is used by fleet system and owner of vehicle all over the world. It is a very safe and reliable technology. In this paper a real time tracking system is proposed. It is going to design a system which is used for tracking and positioning of any vehicle by using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). The design is an embedded application, which will continuously monitor a moving vehicle and report the status of vehicle on demand. Tracking device used in real time vehicle location tracking is made up with Arduino Uno R3, SIM800A module and NEO 6M GPS module. For doing so the Arduino Uno R3 is interfaced serially to a GSM module and GPS module. The GSM module is used to continuously send the position of the vehicle from remote place. The GPS module that uses satellite technology for its navigation system will continuously give data like longitude, latitude, speed, distance travelled etc. Google map is used to view the position of vehicle on a digital mapping. For this work the software XAMPP and Google Map API are used. XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database and interpreters for scripts is written in PHP and Perl programming languages. The Google Maps API allow for the embedding of Google Maps onto web pages using a JavaScript interface which is designed to work on desktop browser application. The MySQL database is used to store all the data of the GPS and Google Map API is used to display the location information through a Google Map.