Android based position tracking for car condition monitoring

Abstract

Many applications could be developed in Android Phone for the improvements of modern car's condition monitoring. That could be a simple user interface for an On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) tools for a car condition monitoring in nowadays manual driving, or up to replacement of its driver for further control in an autonomous driving. However all of them will be so much dependent on its position tracking. In this work, a position tracking system would be designed started from the system's architecture with telecommunication network until its behavior with UML Diagrams. Overall, the system consisted of two parts. They were an android application (app) and the nodeJs web server. The app would deal with the data collection. Then, the web server would show the result using map interface from Open Street Map. From a testing trip, 611 position points were obtained. From those points, it was found also that the shortest processing time between the records was 5 seconds and the longest could be more than 3 minutes.