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GPS based real time vehicle tracking system for kid’s safety
using RFID and GSM
Amit Bhoyar Jagdish Pimple
[email protected] [email protected]
Nagpur Institute of Technology, Borgaon, Maharashtra Nagpur Institute of Technology, Borgaon, Maharashtra

ABSTRACT for the van that usually takes them to the school. In India, child
security is measure concern, many of child goes kidnapped
When it comes to student transportation, every school has two while they have been dropped by the school bus and parents
major problems – student school bus safety and efficient fleet unaware about bus timing or delay or early arrival of the bus so
management. The reports from international crime bureau they did not reach to pick their children and that lead to crime.
that a child goes missing for every three minutes in the world.
This is a big issue which has to roll in parents mind. They In 2015, A 7 year girl was sexually harassed by a bus driver
always worried about the child when they send their children while her ride to home, he took her to alone place and sexually
to a place behind their eyes the places like school or private exploit daily but the parent hadn’t known about her situation
classes. To lessen the parent’s anxiety about their children, a and lately came home they never knew why she comes late than
vehicle positioning system is prepared by merging radio expected no one doubt bus driver for such crime. The girl was
frequency identification, global positioning system, web sick after some days and doctor confirmed that she has been
server, web tracking, and android technology. The system sexually exploited and such cruelty exposed and main culprit
consists of RFID tags and reader which is designed to bus driver gets by police but this incident spoil all life of that
scrutinize the entry and exit of a person in the particular girl and her family.
vehicle where child boarded each person is assigned the tag
which holds the precise identification details when children In 2014, the 10-year girl has been kidnapped immediately after
enters the vehicle, the readers read the person tag and stores dropped by the bus in front of her apartment as her mother didn’t
the details of entry, exit, and vehicle identification code. This get any notification that she reached her to stop she was
information is notified to the concerned authority like school completely unaware about her location and the girl has been
admin and parents via the android app and website as kidnapped and killed by kidnapper that gives lot pain to our
entering, exit, pickup, drop, vehicle emergency and wrong society.
route of the vehicle. The proposed system facilitates to know
about the area where the vehicle has crossed the path using Child safety is the major concern among parents this is
RFID. The GPS technology connected with this system helps especially true when the children are coming late home, parents
in acquiring location updates in the school server database. will naturally want to know where they are fortunately you can
This proficient tracking structure with the enriched feature is ease parents’ concerns within moments by taking a look at the
designed and implemented for the purpose of protection in location of the school bus.
various stream. It is up and coming technology in the field of
communication and network. The tag on the road model is an 2. MOTIVATION
evolving and just able technique in the future world. The Motivation Comes after seen a lot of crime about children so we
projected system here is planned to be implemented in schools need to develop such system to give children location while they
for the safety of the students and it can also be installed in the are in school vehicle with board in Notification at android app,
professional security system. Vehicle location to both the authorities, drop Notification,
wrong route, and bus emergency notification that helps to
Keywords— GPS tracking, Child safety, School transport minimizes the risk of crime toward children who travel alone or
safety, Real time vehicle tracking, GSM data sender, GSM another consenting person. The aim of this paper is to develop
operation, RFID identify scan, Kid's tracker a school vehicle safety System which provides the details of
1. INTRODUCTION tracking information of the student from the vehicle using RFID
In the world, the child goes missing for three minutes according and GSM technologies. The proposed system provides a facility
to international crime record bureau. Around 1, 52,000 children to track the exact location of the bus using RFID and GPS in a
go missing in a year out which 85% have not been found. In cost-effective way. So this could be implemented even in small-
India in 2010, a 10-year-old girl and her 7-year-old brother were scale schools. Such systems must be installed in order to reduce
kidnapped from school by a taxi driver when they were waiting the number of abduction taking place.
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3. RELATED STUDIES with the devices such as displays, sensors, etc. The RFID &
[1]The Authors Alex Atkin and Dallas Alabama in presented the GSM based system helps in tracking the vehicles. Zigbee is used
system to enhance the safety of the school children to and from for communication between the vehicle unit and the main
school. This system is used to detect when the child board or server. This security system is simple and cost-effective. RFID
leaves the bus and gives an alert message to parents. The technology is a relatively new Technology in road construction
disadvantage of this paper is that we can’t track the school bus field that has widely spread in intelligent transportation systems
if the school bus gets late to drop the children at the respective (ITS) [8-15]. Because of its benefits, construction and
places. This system includes a child module and two receiver transportation industries are researching and implementing
modules to track the missed children. It also conveys RFID technology to improve data acquiring and storage
information about the child cry through text message to parents. applications.
It uses Voice Recognizing sensor which senses the cry of the
child and when it matches the cry of the child which is stored in 5. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
school, it sends the message to parents. The main drawback in Each student is given with the RFID tags which contain the
[1] is the whole system is integrated into a small chip and details of the student, contact person, and their phone number
attached to the person body. It May harm the child. Another etc. The RFID reader, kept on the bus, will read the serial
child tracking system using android based phone for getting number of the tag that contains the details of the Students. The
information about the missed child is proposed. information read is stored in the microcontroller and sent to
School server via GSM modem. Once the tag is read by the
[2]This application helps parents to monitor their child cell reader simultaneously a message is sent to parents. The block
phone activity but also helps in tracking the children location diagram is shown in figure 1.
using GPS. The fault in the system is each child and parent
might not have the android phone and use of the phone in school 5.1 Proposed model
is strictly prohibited. The System provides parents, school authorities, and other users
with real-time notifications. Users will be notified whenever a
[3]The paper focuses on children tracking system which child misses or boards the wrong bus. And, the notifications can
includes a panic button. When the child feels that he is in be obtained via apps and web server interface. When a child
danger, he presses the panic button. It adopts Bluetooth arrives at the assigned location, the first notification will be
communication among mobile terminals in every group to received. As a child swipes the RFID card in the card reader
collect information and delivers to the respective server using installed in a school bus, the second notification will be sent to
wireless LAN. The child module in the form of chip gets fixed parents and school. Apart from this, users also receive
to the ID card. The problem is that the child might never know notifications whenever the driver crosses the speed limit or
that he should press the panic button when it requires. deviate from the scheduled route. An RFID tag contains the
details of the student and area, it will be used for identification
[4] Children tracking system using the Android mobile device of particular individual child that has been tracked by his parents
in parent’s hand and the database is maintained in the control with this RFID student Id among all cluster of the children.
room of the school. This system includes a child module and Driver console app helps to formulate the status of all children
two receiver modules. If the child goes beyond the coverage boards in the bus if some child dints board so it will notify the
area the information is sent to the control room of the school bus driver. Once the reader reads the tag the information is sent
and to their respective parents as well. It uses wireless LAN and to school server database via GSM modem and a data about the
Bluetooth device to collect information and cluster head current location of bus and board time are sent to the parents on
delivers the same through tags to the server at school using their phone as a notification in the app as app connected to the
wireless LAN. The limitation is the cluster head sends the real-time database to the school. Usually, the bus tracking
information about the children group and not about each system consists of the system but it provides the latitude,
individual. This makes difficult for the parents to identify their longitude, GPS time, location fixing details, bus Id, bus No, bus
child information. speed, engine on/off status, bus route id, board children student
ID read by RFID reader the tags are pre-programmed. This is
[5]The system is designed to track the children while entering one way you can ensure the safety of children on the school bus,
and leaving the bus using RFID and GSM Technology. This students can use RFID tags stick to their school ID cards to
helps the driver to know how many children had got into and swipe in the card reader installed in the bus. This marks their
left the bus. If the students get missed on the school bus the attendance and the notification will be sent to the parent’s app
information will be sent to the school. The shortcoming of this and school server. This helps you in indicate whether a bus stop
paper is only the entry and exit of the student is identified. has been missed also you can know from where a student
boarded the bus and where they can catch.
4. EXPERIMENTAL WORK
The architecture of the proposed system is shown in figure 2.
RFID system is now an emerging technology in various fields,
 Device
which is well known for its compact size, processing speed etc.
It also plays a leading role in security and process management.  RFID reader module
The RFID technology is a means for uniquely. Identifying an  GSM/GPRS/GPS module
object with a wireless radio link, allowing data to be stored on  Arduino nano Controller Module
an RFID tag and retrieved in the remote application at a later  Power distributor
point in time. The details about the student like his/her name,  Supply auto switcher live to battery
roll number, boarding place will be recorded in the  Backup battery
computerized database and also on the RFID tag. Radio  Firmware with C++ coding
Frequency Identification (RFID) is a common term used to  MYSQL Database
depict a system utilizing radio waves by which the object or  Web server coded with PHP and HTML
person is identified by means of a unique serial number. The  Web console for school admin
microcontrollers are very useful to an extent of communicating
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 Map using Google Map 5.5 Student Detail Insert
 Android app for parents The school admin can add student information like student
 Android Console app for Driver contact information, pickup point, drop point, RFID code, bus
route, bus No etc. this information will help school admin to
track student and buses for particular student boarding
information.

Fig. 1: The architecture of the proposed system

5.2 Database server

The school has its own data server which contains student Fig. 4: Detail of student
information, RFID code, student id, pick and drop location, bus
detail, driver and conductor information, bus location, users, 5.6 Driver detail insert
parent information, etc. The school admin can add driver and conductor information
which requires security protocol and complete license and bus
This server can be accessed by the parents anytime to know the registration that will be formulated for tracking purpose, school
entry and exit of their children and the current location of the admin should have all information related to child safety.
bus.

5.3 Implemented System

DATABASE
WEB
SERVER API

SCHOOL
WEBSITE

RFID READER MICRO-

CONTROLLER LIVE
WEBSITE Fig. 5: Detail of driver

ANDROI 5.7 All buses tracking

GPS GSM EPROM MEMORY D APP The School admin have tracking page for location of the all the
buses running or halted it also show distance traveled by the
buses with assign speed detection it will help get location of the
Fig. 2: Internal architecture of the system bus and maintains tracking, Google map will show all
information in the form of marker which will be updated in the
5.4 School admin portal real time by web socket.
The school has its own login portal that helps to track all buses
location, running and stop status of the buses .the bus has sent
all required information to school server that admin can view all
relevant information by fetching the database it helps to track
all activity related to child safety. If bus acquires the wrong
route or stops somewhere more that assigns time that will blow
the notification to admin to find out the problem and take
necessary precaution before any incident happen.

Fig. 6: Buses location tracking

6
5.8 Parent Console App
Parents have an android console app to track the real-time
location of the bus where their child. This app will require
authorization that will indicate an authorized person only can
see the child location for more safety this app shows an only
relevant child.
Fig. 3: Web tracking of children
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5.11 Pickup and emergency notification
Once children arrived at given drop point app broadcast the
notification that children has reach at an assigned point so please
pick your child it will help to parent to get an exact time to reach
the pickup point that reduces unwanted wasting of time if
parents are busy in their work or they can send a servant to
receive the child.

Fig. 7: Parent Kids tracking app

5.9 Driver profile screen

App has a driver profile screen if any delay or an emergency
occurs in the bus it will help to call driver or conductor directly
from this app by one tap. Profiles also have detail driver
information with his license and residential information.

Fig. 10: Buses location tracking

6. CONCLUSION
This system gives overall safety for school children during
transportation to school. The system identifies children and
entry, exit time with RFID that notifies parents and school in the
form of notification simultaneously GPS gets all coordinates
from satellite and send it your database server by using
GSM/GPRS service module with highly precise and encryption
format. The device has a feature to detect unusual route taken
by school bus driver or bus has stopped somewhere due to any
reason this system start broadcasting alert notification to both
Fig. 8: Driver profile
authorities for consideration of the situation, it has live identity
adder with the master card, adding, deleting and erasing
5.10 Time estimator with the direction
function also taken place in this advanced system. The system
Time estimator will help to show parent exact time to reach the
gives a high level of security for school children as well as an
bus at pick or drop point that helps to reach the parent to receive
educational institute.
the child at assign location and it will get more safety.
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