Real Time Implementation of RTOS based Vehicle Tracking System

A. Venkataraman¹ and P. Chitra²

¹Master of Engineering, Embedded System, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India. ²Professor, Electronics And Communication, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India.

ABSTRACT: A vehicle or fleet management system is implemented for tracking the movement of the vehicle at any time from any location. This proposed system helps in real time tracking of the vehicle using a smart phone application. This method is easy and efficient when compared to other implementations. In emerging technology of developing IOT (Internet of Things) the generic 8 bit/16 bit micro controllers are replaced by 32bit micro controllers in the embedded systems. This has many advantages like use of 32bit micro controller’s scalability, reusability and faster execution speed. Implementation of RTOS is very much necessary for having a real time system. RTOS features are application portability, reusability, more efficient use of system resources. The proposed system uses a 32bit ARM7 based microcontroller with an embedded Real Time Operating System (RTOS).The vehicle unit application is written on FreeRTOS. The peripheral drivers like UART, External interrupt are developed for RTOS aware environment. The vehicle unit consists of a GPS/GPRS module where the position of the vehicle is got from the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is used to update the timely information of the vehicle position. The vehicle unit updates the location to the Fleet management application on the web server. The vehicle management is a java based web application integrated with MySQL Database. The web application in the proposed system is based on OpenGTS open source vehicle tracking application. A GoTrack Android application is configured to work with web application. The smart phone application also provides a separate login for administrator to add, edit and remove the vehicles on the fleet management system. The users and administrators can continuously monitor the vehicle using a smart phone application.

KEYWORDS: Vehicle tracking; 32 bit Microcontroller; RTOS; FreeRTOS; IOT; Google Maps; Smartphone application; GPS/GSM/GPRS technology; OpenGTS

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