Real time bus tracking and scheduling system using wireless sensor and mobile technology

Abstract

The public bus transportation system has the direct impact on economic development of the country. Scheduling, tracking and monitoring the schedule of the public bus transportation is one of the major issues for any public transportation sector. Presently, there are many vehicle tracking systems are available using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology. But there is no implementation at all buses in centralized scheduler. To keep track of buses in manual system is error-prone in the existing time keeping process by Time Keepers, and also this manual log is not being centralized to share with relevant authority and passengers. This project aims at designing a wireless sensor network that would identify and automatically provide the visual information for a real time movement of the public transport busses. The scheduler will dispatch data on arrival and departure with the bus ID and time-stamp from bus stops and passenger shelters along the bus route and it will report to the centralized scheduler. All these bus-stops and passenger shelters will be based on microcontrollers which is to be designed using the Arduino and RFID receiver. Bus will be equipped with front and rear tags. Detected RFID information will be sent through the Arduino and GSM / GPRS shields which are to be placed at the bus-stops into central scheduler, it will process the sensed raw data and will upload the derived coordinates on Google Maps, using Google Fusion tables. Administration and Passenger can check the real time movements over the web interfaces.