Design and implementation of vehicle tracking and theft control system

This paper proposes a methodology for tracking systems based on the global positioning system and radio communications to determine the current location of moving objects, such as a vehicle, and sends this information to a remote monitor center. The designed system consists of two units, which are the vehicle unit and the monitor unit. When theft of vehicle is detected, the monitor unit sends a packet that automatically turns off the vehicle engine, which provides real time control. The data at monitor unit are stored in a file and can be retrieved as requested for route browsing on a Google map. A graphical user interface application is developed using Visual Basic with embedded Google map to retrieve and display vehicle current position. The proposed embedded system can be considered a successful one as it is small size, low power consumption, and implemented on a single chip microcontroller with low cost.