Real Time Vehicle Tracking on Google Maps using Raspberry Pi Web Server

Abstract

The use of automobiles is necessary to ship goods and products from one place to another. The users face several problems due to delay in the delivery of goods. This delay may be due to choosing wrong or longer routes by the driver. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is being used for fleet management, stolen vehicle recovery, surveillance and mapping applications. In this paper, implementation details of a vehicle tracking system (VTS) on Google Maps are presented along with experimental results. The vehicle tracking device (VTD) placed in the vehicle consists of a GPS receiver to acquire geographic coordinates, and a GSM/GPRS module to send the vehicle coordinates to a web server. The GPS and GSM modules are controlled using the Arduino microcontroller. Raspberry Pi is used as a web server to store the vehicle position and display it on the Google maps