GPS BASED VEHICLE TRACKING OVER GPRS FOR FLEET MANAGEMENT AND PASSENGER/ PAYLOAD/ VEHICLE SECURITY

Global Positioning System (GPS) based vehicle tracking over General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) had been widely used in many places. This system was a combination of GPS in a vehicle to indicate its position on the geographic coordinate and a GPRS to send the data of position and other important data into a computer connected via the Internet. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a data service part of a Global System for Mobile Communications GSM cellular phone with speed from 56 kilobit per second (kbps) up to 114 kbps. Coordinate data obtained from the GPS receiver on-board the vehicle was processed fully inside the receiver unit and the output of the unit was serial data communication using TTL logic level using NMEA-0183 protocol which was connected to the first serial port of a micro-controller. The device with all the featured mentioned above has been built and shown to be working with all the conditioned mentioned above. The web page with different fleet management has been developed and shown to be working properly as indicated.