A low-cost yet accurate approach to a vehicle location tracking system

Author

Wahab, Abdul ; Chong, Tan Eng ; Wah, Ngiam Chong ; Eng, Ong Swee ; Keong, Wong Kin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Appl. Sci., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

9-12 Sep 1997

Firstpage

461

Abstract

This paper describes a real-time vehicle location tracking system which uses the current technology of the Global Positioning System (NAVSTAR GPS) to provide continuous position and velocity tracking of a moving vehicle. This system consists of two parts-the hardware GPS tracking unit and the front-end user-friendly mapping software. The hardware-tracking unit provides a common interface to the computer running the mapping software developed under Microsoft Windows. Eventually, the entire system will be compact and portable enough to be mounted in the vehicle for position/velocity tracking and hence the display of tracking information on the mapping software showing the Singapore roadmaps

Keywords

Global Positioning System; computerised navigation; real-time systems; road vehicles; telecommunication computing; tracking; Global Positioning System; Microsoft Windows; NAVSTAR GPS; Singapore roadmaps; front-end user-friendly mapping software; hardware GPS tracking unit; interface; moving vehicle; position tracking; vehicle location tracking system; velocity tracking; Computer interfaces; Disaster management; Earth; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Microcontrollers; Military satellites; Real time systems; Satellite navigation systems; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. ICICS., Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3676-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.1997.647140

Filename

647140