Campus Monitoring System

Abstract: This paper proposes a cost effective method of locating a human's position using two technologies via General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Global Positioning System (GPS). The whole system allows the user's current position to be located using a mobile phone which is equipped with an internal GPS receiver and a GPRS transmitter. A mobile phone application has been developed and deployed on an Android Phone whose responsibility is to track the GPS location and send it to a remote location by creating a GPRS packet. As unique identifier we have used mobile's Irrational Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number which will be sent along with the coordinates. The person's position is further saved in a Mobile Object Database (MOD) which is created in MySQL. From MOD the data will be first transferred into an XML file which will be fed as an input to a web application which is developed with JavaScript based Google Map API integrated into it which will be responsible for the showing the current location of the mobile phone. Most of the applications developed so far use a handheld GPS receiver device for tracking the location, but we have reduced the cost of device by using the mobile phone which has an inbuilt GPS receiver. And further the cost is reduced by using GPRS rather than using Short Message Service (SMS) for communicating the information to the server.

Keywords: GPS, GPRS, XML, Google API.