Offline Vehicle Tracking and Visualizing on Digital Maps

Year 2016, Special Issue (2016), 133 - 137, 01.12.2016

Halil Aydın , Omer Faruk Bay

https://doi.org/10.18100/ijamec.267365

Abstract

Tracking mobile objects has always attracted people’s interest and over
time it has become a necessity to keep records of them. Various solutions have
been developed to meet this need. In particular, the development of GPS and
digital mapping system has contributed greatly to these solutions. The
developed methods can be divided into two main categories as online and offline
systems. Although the online systems provide advanced features, production and
operating costs are quite high and have regular expenses. In this study, we propose
a microcontroller based offline vehicle tracking system. The proposed system
offers a practical, low cost and high capacity approach for vehicle tracking
systems. The proposed system calculates the vehicle’s position and speed
according to the signals gathered from GPS satellites and records them to an SD
card continuously. The stored data, then, can be transferred to a computer
easily whenever needed and the routes that the vehicle followed can be tracked
on a digital map using google earth. Besides, some visualization technics like
coloring routes with regards to time or speed intervals can be used for
advanced analyses of the data. The proposed system allows the GPS data to be
recorded as long as 3 months on a 4 GB SD card continuously.

Keywords

GPS; Digital Map, Offline Tracking, Vehicle Tracking, GPS Data Visualizing

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