An Advance Vehicle Tracking System Based on Arduino Electronic Shields and Web Maps Browser

Abstract

Among various vehicle thefts, thieves steal vehicles to use them for terrorism, kidnapping, armed robberies, and other illegal operations. Therefore, the proposed study aimed to design and implement a vehicle tracking system that recognizes the vehicle’s locations for theft case detection. Accordingly, this paper focuses on identifying the vehicle’s location via GPS using the global system of mobile communications GSM. Throughout the vehicle tracking system, information on the vehicle’s sites is transmitted via general radio beam GPRS, which GSM possesses. Also, suggested system is equipped with ARDUINO (UNONO6M) controller and SIM800L modules as they are integrated with a GSM modem and GPS receiver. By the direction of vehicle motion via GPS, the vehicle’s global location is received from the satellites with the accuracy of (2.5m) to (3.5m) longitude and latitude coordinates. Then, all data are transferred by GPRS service to a remote server through TCP (Connection Protocol and Internet) to be viewed on multiple web maps that partially embedded in the web-based application. Surprisingly, in comparison to the previous works, the proposed system produces accurate results.