Implementation of a vehicle tracking system using smartphone and SMS service

In this dynamic life where everyone is in a hurry to reach their destinations, waiting for bus is hectic and even many of us are unaware of the bus timing. To overcome this difficulty, an easy system is proposed in this paper to aid tracking real time bus location. The proposed solution takes advantages of the two main features in mobile platform nowadays which are location services, mainly GPS based, and basic telephony services, mainly SMS based. The system consists of two sides, server side and client side. The server device's main responsibility is to provide the exact location of the bus to the server, or to the user in case of SMS based query from client's device. On the other hand, client's device can find bus location either using SMS service or using internet service. If clients' device is an android based smartphone, he can install our application to track bus location using internet service. The server's device will be placed on the vehicle of interest with android application installed on it. Experiments were made with this system and found that it performs better in many ways than other similar vehicle tracking systems.