Real-time College Bus Tracking System

Abstract

In the today’s society the major issue facing by the student is to catch the college bus on time to reached the destination, the student will be unaware of the college bus whether it has already left the place of the pickup or not?, where is bus? in that case there is no proper solution which identifies the location of a bus. Henceforth in the order to help the students in finding the accurate location of bus, the proposed system implements an Android applications which could help in finding the solution to this problem. By applying latest idea regarding the solution based on GPS (global positioning system) on Internet of Things(IoT), the college students can effectively organize and schedule the bus movement on a campus and also helps to tracking and document it in real time. Thus, the user’s application receives from the Google Map API the map that highlights the recent position of bus. This system also included with the emergency panic button if any accident occur in between the travelling by clicking the panic button student has sent to the notification of alert message to the admin it is equipped with exact location of bus through Gmail. Key Words: Android, GPS, Google Map API, Gmail.