GPS Based Vehicle Root Tracking System

Introduction

Off all the embedded applications, vehicle tracking, GPS and navigational systems are in the advanced phase of technology. Nowadays, you can see GPS fitted cars, police vehicles and ambulances. These tracking systems offer utilization of vehicles and also the operational efficiency. You can view vehicle information on electronic maps by means of specialized software or Internet.

Overview

The GPS technology is used in vehicles for navigation as well as tracking. GPS- vehicle tracking system requires a base station, GPS constellation, and mobile units. Base station is enabled with tracking systems in order keep track on the vehicles without driver involvement. Navigation system in the vehicle helps driver to arrive the destination.

The architecture of tracking system and the navigation system is comparatively similar. Navigation system equipped in the vehicle is more convenient, for the driver, which enables the graphic display. The vehicle tracking system is a combination of numerous well-developed technologies.

Working of GPS Based Vehicle Root Tracking System

Without considering the technology, the Vehicle tracking system comprises of three subsystems, the In-vehicle unit, Base station and Communication link. The in- vehicle unit is included with an intelligent controller and suitable position sensor with a suitable interface to communication link.

The network Overlay Systems make use of cellular phones for locating the vehicles. The cell centers with software assess and the additional hardware access, the angle of arrival and the time of arrival will take care of computing the vehicle position. The information from radio signals are sent to tracking centre by means of conventional link or cell link.

This vehicle tracking computation is done in IVU. The position information is transferred to tracking centre with the help of cell phone link. The frequent technique used is the direct radio link. The microcontroller used will interact with the GPS receiver.


The base station comprises of a VTIS software application that receives positioning data and it displays on the digital map. The software application also has the communication link interface.





Features

The enhanced features in the GPS based vehicle root tracking system comprises of video features, various modes of tracing, tracking history, database related to the vehicle, network support.

Additional information

The data link is the most expensive part in the VTIS. The data link associated with the suitable communication protocol will let you know about choice of parameters like bandwidth, number of tracking vehicles, terrain, expandability, coverage area. The VTIS is associated with these parameters will give you support information regarding the vehicles such as perishable goods temperature, fuel consumption rate.


Whenever the several vehicles were tracked, you need to have appropriate communication protocol in order to avoid radio signal collision. Simple technique to avoid the radio signal collision is TDMA. On the other hand, the TDMA based systems have incomplete expandability, and also limited flexibility.

In the countries like United States and Europe has many service providers for vehicle tracking and they already started operating it.

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