ISSN (Print) : 2320 – 3765 ISSN (Online): 2278 – 8875 International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (An ISO 3297: 2007 Certified Organization) Vol. 5, I ssue 4, April 2016 Copyright to IJAREEIE DOI:10.15662/IJAREEIE.2016.0504064 3068 A Real Time Tracking and Alerting System Using LabVIEW J Jyothirmai Joshi Assistant Professor, Dept. of EIE, VNR Vignan Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India ABSTRACT: Real time tracking system for vehicles, locomotives and ships is required that can transmit the collected information about the vehicle after regular intervals or at least could transmit the information when required by monitoring station. This led to the development of active systems. An automatic position tracking based systems in real time has playing key role in present day scenario. The prototype of the Real-time Tracking and Alerting System consists of a two units; Tracker Unit that senses the position information, relays to central monitoring station, stores that information in the database and uses this data to locate the position of the vehicle on the Google maps. This paper concentrates on the proposed VI that interfaces with the database that has vehicle information and with Google maps that indicates the position of vehicle and alerts the person who is monitoring the information. KEYWORDS: Position, Tracking, alerting, LABVIEW. I.INTRODUCTION Initially vehicle tracking systems were developed for fleet management. It was a passive tracking system, a hardware device installed in the vehicle that stores GPS location, speed, heading and a trigger event such as key on/off, door open/closed etc,. When vehicle returns to a specific location device is removed and data downloaded to computer[1]. Passive systems also included auto download type that transfer data via wireless download but were not real time. Passive systems did not serve much useful to track consumer’s vehicle for theft prevention. Real time tracking system was required that can transmit the collected information about the vehicle after regular intervals or at least could transmit the information when required by monitoring station. This led to the development of active systems. Active systems were developed to transmit vehicle’s data in real-time via cellular or satellite networks to a remote computer or data centre. Many vehicle tracking systems that are in use now-a-days have some form of Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) units. It is the concept for determining the geographic location of a vehicle and transmitting this information to a remotely located server. The location is determined using GPS and transmission mechanism could be a satellite, terrestrial radio or cellular connection from the vehicle to a radio receiver, satellite or nearby cell tower [2]. After capture, the tracking data can be transmitted using any choice of telemetry or wireless communications systems. GSM is the most commonly used service for this purpose. The transmitted data is received by the central monitoring station and stored in database. The designed Virtual Instrument (VI) connects the database and the Google maps and displays the position of vehicle on the Google maps[3]. II. OBJECTIVES To develop a VI that interfaces with real time automatic vehicle Location tracking system information that is stored in database and Google maps to display the position of vehicle. The information in the data base contains following: 1. Vehicle’s location information (latitude and longitude) 2. Time and date of arrival of information.