Children Location Monitoring on Google Maps Using GPS and GSM Technologies

In this modern and fast moving world, human safety and security has become an important issue. In the past few years, crime against school going children has grown rapidly. In this paper, a prototype Children Location Monitoring System (CLMS) is implemented using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) technologies. The system is built on ARM7 LPC2148 microcontroller board and uses a commercial GPS receiver to compute the position of the child continuously. The child's position information is periodically sent through GSM to the parent's smart phone (as a Google map link). A School monitoring system database developed using Visual Basic 6.0 is used to monitor child's location from the school. Sample experimental results are obtained from CLMS are presented here. This system can help the parents and the school authorities to monitor the children when they leave the school or they go missing.