On the architecture of vehicle tracking system using wireless sensor devices

Integration of different technologies potentially provides support to wide variety of applications and systems with vastly varying requirements and characteristics. Vehicle tracking system is one of such applications possible by embedding wireless sensor devices on the vehicles. The most of the state-of the-art technology uses GPS (Global Positioning System) for tracking vehicles which is very expensive. The focus of the proposed vehicle tracking system is to track the desired vehicle with low-cost, effective implementation as in contrast to the existing high-cost tracking systems. In this paper, we present architecture for vehicle tracking system using wireless sensor technology. We have defined the packet structure for communication between the nodes. Certain issues that arise during implementation are discussed. To investigate our proposed design towards implementation, we have performed simulations for different scenarios under certain realistic conditions using Qualnet network simulator. The results from the analysis and evaluation through simulations provide general design guidelines to implement the proposed solution.