Real Time Cost Effective Of People Tracking System

Abstract

The wide coverage of mobile and satellite network leads to various useful applications that increase the convenience of our daily life. One of such applications is people tracking or positioning system. The real time location of a person can be tracked by using the GPS (Global Positioning System) which is a satellite-based navigation system consisting of several satellites revolving around the earth and GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) technology which is a set of standards to describe technologies for Second Generation (2G). The Palestinian region use 2G service for transmission data with high cost and low bandwidth in comparing with other countries surrounded us which have third generation (3G ) that have high bandwidth and low cost for data transmission. The purpose of this thesis is to propose and implement a cost effective method of people tracking system using general packet radio service(GPRS) and global position system (GPS) equipped mobile which will make our system a low cost tracking solution for localizing an object position and status. We apply our rule for the transmission point from client (Mobile Phone) to server and making the processing at the client side itself which reduce the cost of transmission to 35%. Evaluation done using mobile phone with integrated GPS receiver which works great for the proposed GPS tracking system by reducing the number of transmitted packet & cost.