A solution for tracking a fleet of vehicles

Tracking fleets of vehicles is a widely used solution for increasing the efficiency of the management of group of vehicles. It is done by combining digital maps, mobile communications and embedded systems. A device for tracking a vehicle is mainly made of three parts: localization and positioning module, communication module and CPU module. A system for tracking vehicles receives data from many tracking devices, stores them in a database and displays the routes on existing digital maps. This paper presents a system for tracking a fleet of vehicles. The localization parameters along with status data form the CAN bus of the vehicle are sent via a GSM/GPRS network to a fixed server and, at the same time, are stored locally.