Tracking anomalies in vehicle movements using mobile GIS

Detecting fraud activities and anomalies in vehicle movements are the two major concerns for the vehicle fleet industry. Some of these which incur heavy losses to the organization include fuel theft, loading and unloading related frauds, route variations, inefficient fuel maintenance and frequent breakdowns. The proposed system monitors certain vehicle parameters and provides solution to these issues with the help of sensors and related components. The anomalies and fraud activities detected using sensors present in the vehicle are continuously updated to the server with vehicle ID, location information and other relevant details. The system communicates with the server only on the occurrence of an activity which reduces the operating cost and corresponding alerts are also given to the monitoring agents. The proposed automatic mobile phone-based model uses a new android application to monitor and visualize the locations of various activities that avoids the need for 24×7 monitoring.