This document is a synopsis for a student project on a GSM/GPS-based vehicle tracking system. It includes an abstract describing the system components like an AT89C2051 microcontroller, LCD display, RS-232 interface, GPS and GSM modems. The system uses the GPS modem to get location coordinates and sends them via GSM modem as SMS messages containing a Google Maps link to track the vehicle's location. It was submitted by three students for their Bachelor's degree and approved by examiners and their guide.

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2. GSM/GPS Based vehicle Tracking System
A Synopsis on Project
Submitted in partial ful

3. llment of the requirement of
University of Mumbai
For the Degree of
Bachelor of Engineering
(Instrumentation Engineering)
by
Pritesh Bharnuke(Roll No.66)
Abhishek Kshirsagar(Roll No.29)
Sagar Parmar(Roll No.36)
Under the guidance of
Mrs.Manisha Hatkar
Department of Instrumentation Engineering
Smt.Indira Gandhi College of Engineering,
Sector 16, Koparkhairane , Navi Mumbai
(Affiliated to University of Mumbai)
November 2014

4. Smt.Indira Gandhi College of Engineering
(Affiliated to the University of Mumbai)
Sector 16, Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai 400 709.
CERTIFICATE
This to certify that synopsis on Project entitled
GSM/GPS Based vehicle Tracking System"
submitted by
Pritesh Bharnuke(Roll No.66)
Abhishek Kshirsagar(Roll No.29)
Sagar Parmar(Roll No.36)
is approved for the degree of
Bachelor of Engineering
in
Instrumentation Engineering.
Examiner 1 Examiner 2
Guide Project Coordinator
Head of Department Principal
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5. Abstract
As this projects contains following sections Micro-controller AT89C2051 , is the heart of
the project. 2 line 16 character lcd for display, RS-232 section, DB9 connector for gsm
and gps modem connection, Indication led, Global Positioning System (GPS) modem,
Global system for mobile communication (GSM) modem SIM300 or similar, In the said
project, we can track the location of our Vehicle anywhere in the world. This project gives
location details about vehicle by sending s.m.s .through GSM modem. This SMS contains
longitude and latitude of the location. Microcontroller is the central heart of this project
Microcontroller gets the coordinates from GPS modem and then it sends this information
to the user in Text format giving direct link on google map on even your mobile phone.
You simply click on the link and it will take you to the vehicle location on the Google
map or even in your browser.
This Project it is designed on an embedded system which is used for tracking and
positioning of any vehicle by using GPS tracking system is required in many situations,
when you need to track the vehicle or the convoy of vehicles ,it could be theft or highjack
case. In GPS tracking system the location of vehicle is sent to remote place and it is
done by GSM modem. GPS modem requires minimum 3 satellites to calculate the exact
location. This modem communicates only in one way with microcontroller. This means
that it can only transmit data to microcontroller. GPS Modem does not receive any data
from microcontroller. At the same time GPS modem does not send data to Satellite, it
only receives signal from satellites.
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6. Contents
Abstract ii
List of Figures iv
1 Literature Survey 1
2 Introduction 3
2.1 Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3 Circuit Diagram 5
3.1 Circuit Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Bibliography 7
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7. List of Figures
2.1 Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1 Circuit Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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8. Chapter 1
Literature Survey
The papers published in IEEE journals regarding vehicle position tracking system and its
implementation on Fpga has helped to develop this project by analyzing the defects and
using the effective ways from all resources available. The concept of the reference papers
and how it helped in designing this system is described in the following subsections
This project is referenced to the paper ?Design of vehicle position tracking system
using short message services and its implementation on fpga ,done by Arias Tanti
Hapsari , Eniman Y Syamsudin and, Imron Pramana. In this reference paper author
used .GPS module to receive the vehicular position and, short messaging service via
mobile phone' to receive user request and to send the vehicle's position. These
components are controlled by a system which is designed using VHDL on Altera
MAX plus I1 software, and it is implemented on FPGA chip Altera UPlX demo
board (Altera FLEX 10KEPF). In this way the author gets the position of the
vehicle and send it to any user who gives the request for tracking. The objective
of this project is to achieve a design of such system that can give information of
the vehicle position every time there's a request for it. Safety and security is a
major concern for all vehicle owners . This vehicle tracking system ensures safety
and security of vehicle by tracking its position and sending it to owner or any
people whenever it is requested by them. And also GPS system ensures maximum
accuracy in

9. nding the vehicular position ranging within few feet. Using the mobile
phone attached in the system ,the position of the vehicle is sent as short message
service?(SMS) to the requested people. The designed system is implemented on
Altera UPlX demo board. There are two testing and veri

10. cation procedures of this
system.[3]
Another paper referenced is? GPS-based Vehicle Tracking System-on-Chip. Mod-
ern powerful recon

11. gurable systems are suited in the implementation of various
data-stream, data parallel,and other applications . An application that needs real-
time, fast, and reliable data processing is the GPS-based vehicle tracking system
(VTS). This system is designed using a system-on-chip (SOC) replacement of the
current microcontroller(8051)-based implementation. The proposed SOC is built
on a

12. eld programmable gate array (FPGA) promising a cheaper design, a more
cohesive architecture, a faster processing time and an enhanced system interaction.
Recon

13. gurable systems enable extensive exploitation of computing resources. The
recon

14. guration of resources in different parallel topologies allows for a good match-
ing with the inherent intrinsic parallelism of an algorithm or a speci