Tracking System using Location-Based Services Technology

Available ubiquitous networks that make use of small mobile devices like PDA and cellular phones, offer varied possibility of use by new generation application softwares. These applications utilize the available networks and devices to help users in their daily activities in different geographical areas. These set of applications constitute location based services and combine Geographic Information Systems (GIS), wireless network, and Global Positioning System (GPS) architecture or Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) networks for positioning processes. With Location Based Services, mobile devices can provide features grouped in different categories such as tracking, emergency and navigation. We built a solution that uses GPS and GSM infrastructures to help local custom officers in goods tracking around a defined area. This paper is aimed at giving a description of an architecture that uses ubiquitous network to localize a vehicle, and GIS techniques to plot goods' positions on a map, and then generate a bitmap as a snapshot of the map status at a given moment. Our description focuses on the manipulation of mapping and imaging concepts to represent dynamically a moving truck's path.