DEVELOPMENT OF A MICROCONTROLLER BASED LIGHT DEPENDENT RESISTOR (LDR) VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM

Abstract

There has been an increase in the numbers and sizes of vehicle fleets and fleet managers are bordered to keep track of their vehicles on the ply route in order to quickly address any issue regarding the vehicles or the passengers on board by implementing vehicle tracking. This paper presents a vehicle tracking technique for fleet management. This work is expected to serve as a framework for the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking method by the institutions transport unit. Light Dependent Resistors (LDRs) are used in this work to detect the position of vehi cles on tracked route, the information is relayed to an encod er which in turn passes the information to a RF transmitter. The RF transmitter transmits same, to the base station which is then received by its wireless receiver, decoded by its de coder and formatted it for its Liquid Crystal display (LCD) screen. The system works in real time and does not require line of sight to communicate.