LDR Based Power Consumption of Vehicle Tracking System

To enhance the quality of the Intelligent Transportation system an effective vehicle communication and protection is needed. This can be achieved by developing a smart automatic tracking device utilizing GPS, GSM module and reduction in the power consumption of this system is achieved with the help of LDR. When the LDR sensors detect the visual light from the headlights of a vehicle it enables the GPS. A GSM modem is used to send the coordinates of the vehicle provided by the GPS to the end-users phone using the mobile network. A low power micro controller interfaced with LDR sensors can be used as a prototype model for efficient power consumption of vehicle tracking and will make the system cost-effective. This tracking system can be built with the help of hardware components such as U-Blox NEO-7M GPS receiver module, SIM900A GSM module, Arduino Uno and LDR. In this paper, we showed the wireless modelling of the GSM module and also evaluated the effective power of the common vehicle tracking system and the intended system and the results showed that the aimed system was less power consuming. Thus, the system proposed is proved to be efficient.