GSM-based mobile tele-monitoring and management system for inter-cities public transportations

This paper presents a tele-monitoring and management system for inter-cities transportation vehicles such as taxis and buses. The system is based on a stand-alone single-board embedded system that is equipped with GPS and GSM modems that is installed in the vehicle. A personal computer based GSM-Server is installed at transportation's head-quarter. While the vehicle is on the move, its real-time parameters such as speed, location, estimated arrival time, road condition and surrounding weather status are reported as SMS message to the transportation's head-quarter GSM-Server for further process. A software package is developed and installed in GSM-server to read, process, analyze and store the incoming SMS messages. Graphical user interface (GUI) and software management package are developed using active server pages (ASP) and HTML to monitor the fleet and to build profile for each vehicle and driver. The system utilizes the readily available GSM mobile public networks; therefore the fleet administration should not worry about upgrading or maintaining such network.