Design and deployment of Vehicle Tracking System in VANETs using Xbee Pro: Prototype model

Abstract

Cooperative and Communication applications place an vital role in vehicular adhoc network(VANET)s for safety messages, warning messages, weather information, Traffic congestion information and road conditions information etc can be communicated from one vehicle node to another vehicle node and vehicle node to road side unit (RSU) within the ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). In this paper, we conducted an experimental study to establish a simple network among five vehicle nodes. Design of each vehicle node composed of communication module, Processing module, GPS module and energy source. Each vehicle node transmits its position information along with speed of the vehicle to RSU in which we can trace the movements of vehicle that mean we can monitor the travel path of vehicle in Google map using latitude and longitude transmitted by GPS Receiver. Experiment results proved that the degradation of network performance using zigbee module in dynamic and high speed environment.