Design of Bus Tracking and Fuel Monitoring System

Abstract

The need for efficient public transportation system such as buses is rapidly increased due to the increasing in population, the passengers need to know the accurate arrival time of the particular bus to particular station and then plan their journey from their home. Fuel monitoring have been the major problem that most of bus companies looking to solve. This paper developed a bus tracking and monitoring the fuel and speed system to provide a facility for the management requirements by the administrator. The proposed system based on Arduino, GSM/GPS and map suit ASP. MVC which provide the actuated arrival time in addition to graphically showing the bus location on Google map. The design also enables the owner of the buses to monitor the bus instantaneously because the system administrator can easily maintain database information of buses and its fuel tank at any time of the service.

Existing System

Real time bus monitoring system using GPS.

Proposed System

The architecture of the system provides the bus arrival time depending on the user source and destination. The overall outcomes functionality of the system comes from the interaction between the system components, which are a device on the bus, web application and desktop application. A device on the bus consist of Arduino, GPS, GSM, fuel sensor and speed sensor. The GPS receive the coordinate information from satellites and send it the Arduino, the fuel and speed sensors used to measure the speed and fuel level and send it to the Arduino, which collect all this data and send it to the server through the GSM. The device in the bus send a frame to the pc in the central station (server) that frame consist of speed, location of the bus and its fuel level. The pc stores this information in the database in order to view it in the desktop application or web application. There are GSM module at the server side used to receive the information from the buses and store it in the database. All information about the buses, drivers, stations and routes are also stored in the database and the owner able to delete, update and enter new information. Once the information is uploaded in the server the commuter can access the information via the web site using internet. The ASP.MVC and visual studio 2013 with embedded of Gogol map are used to design the web site that provide view of buses to the user and he/she can select the station where he stopping and the rout want to go. After that all buses that belongs to the require rout and the time that will take to reach the user station will display.

Architecture

Architecture of proposed system