Vehicle Tracking Device

This paper discuss the process of developing a Vehicle Tracking Device (VTD). VTD is a tracking device focusing on vehicles that use Short Message Service (SMS). VTD will give information of location coordinate to mobile phone whenever there is a request for it through the SMS. The integrated Global Positioning System and Global System for Mobile communication (GPS-GSM) is used to track vehicle using application such as Waze or Google Maps. VTD is an integration of both hardware and software. The hardware components include a microcontroller, Arduino Uno board, sim-card slot, voice-alarm module, signal antenna, battery and mobile phone as well as a program controller interface. The prototype of VTD has been successfully developed to track vehicle using GPS via SMS.