Chittagong University Teachers' Bus Tracking System Using Smartphone Application

Implementation of a real-time bus tracking system in Chittagong University (CU) is proposed and developed to keep monitoring the teachers' buses and to provide the information of buses to the teachers via android application (app) in a more efficient manner. The idea behind is, there is no such tracking system in CU. Moreover, some limitations arise with the present existing tracking systems in the universe-need hardware maintenance in the GSM/GPRS module that is expensive also, use conventional MySQL database that updates data within few seconds etc. Concerning these limitations, the developed system uses two smartphone applications for transmitting and receiving information using Firebase, an online server with real-time database updating data within few milliseconds that makes the system faster than others. The In-vehicle app receives latitude and longitude values from the satellite and transmits them to the firebase. Firebase updates the data continuously and transmits to the user app. A user can get the information of current location address, distance from any bus stop and time to reach a specific destination of the bus through the User app. Hence, the developed tracking system provides more economical, velocious and user-friendly environment to the users.