Research of Vehicle Tracking System Based on Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensor networks gathering information from edge nodes and reporting to base stations have created many new and exciting applications. Therefore, a vehicle tracking system based on sensor networks is designed in order to capture and detect a traffic violation. Firstly in order to save the energy consumption the radio enhancement and energy conservation method is proposed which can put the sensor nodes to sleep or be put in standby mode until an application invokes the node again. Secondly an online search tool is designed to allow the user to archive the data and also to view the data when needed. Then a tracking algorithm is proposed by which the vehicle equipped with a GPS system can be tracked by connecting a GPS receiver to a node and updating the global coordinates of the node in real time. Simulation results showed that our algorithms perform well in an energy efficient manner.