Mobile based event-activated vehicle tracking in urban environments

The ubiquitous nature of present wireless networks makes the real-time and accurate location-tracking of mobile assets a realizable possibility. However, the existing solutions with their high infrastructure and operational costs, and technical implementation difficulties are not attractive for practical event-activated asset tracking, control, and diagnostics. In this paper, we provide complete system architecture and a description of fully-functional prototype implementation of a mobile based and event-activated solution for low-cost and real-time asset-tracking in urban environments. The accuracy and stability of the proposed solution is established via rigorous field-trials.