Vehicle Monitoring and Tracking System (VMTS)

Abstract

Since the start of twentieth century, the role of automobile has become vital. Almost everyone who drives a car faces trouble regarding its performance, maintenance and most importantly, its tracking. One would like to maintain and solve the main issues of his/her car without having the need to go to a mechanic. The proposed system provides a GSM based vehicle tracking and monitoring system. This system renders service about vehicle’s internal performance and tracking via short message service (SMS). In VMTS composition, we have utilized the car’s “On-Board Diagnostics (OBD-II)” port to extract input data of various features of the car and translate this raw data by means of an IC- chip named ELM-327 into human readable form. The GPS module provides the tracking of car, whereas the GSM module sends the car’s location and important monitoring information to user’s mobile device via SMS. A message will pop-up on mobile device to notify its user about the car’s location and other relevant monitoring data to the mobile device.