Efficient Geo-tracking and Adaptive Routing of Mobile Assets

The recent advancements in technologies such as cellular networks, wireless sensor networks (WSN), radio-frequency identification (RFID), and global positioning system (GPS) have lead us to develop a realistic approach to tracking mobile assets. Tracking and managing the dynamic location of mobile assets is critical for many organizations with mobile resources. Current tracking systems are costly and inefficient over wireless data transmission systems where cost is based on the rate of data being sent. Thus our main research goal is to develop efficient and improved asset tracking solutions and consume valuable mobile resources. In addition, we also adapt their routes by means of a novel and efficient geographical tracking approach that performs route adaptation. We focus on tracking GPS-enabled mobile devices mounted on the asset by understanding the behavior of a mobile device for reporting GPS data in various demographics. This paper is complemented with result evaluations based on a simulation environment with real logs.