Find me friends: GPS tracker

Mohammad Hasbullah, Syafida (2017) Find me friends: GPS tracker. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The Find Me Friends: GPS Tracker is developed to address the problem of finding friends without the hassle of manually searching them or trying to contact them. The idea is to utilise the Global Positioning System (GPS) functionality embedded in a smartphone to detect friends or family by using this application. The project is developed in a period of 3 months. The project is inspired by the problem of finding people in a bustling place. The situation is similar when searching for a friend in a wide area. The project is also concern on the security of the person being search by exposing their location. The objective of this project is to build an application for tracking and locating, to study the GPS functionality of a smartphone, and to study the efficiency of GPS on a smartphone. The project is developed using Rapid Application Development methodology. The project mainly used the GPS detection method to locate the user’s phone. The GPS detection method is the result of trilateration technique to determine the user’s position, speed of their movement, and elevation from the ground. The technique involves the use of three or more satellites to pinpoint the user’s location. The data from each satellite is used to narrow down where the user is from the overlapping area where the two sphere of the satellite detection meets. The use of more satellites will increase the accuracy of the location detection. Other than GPS detection, web service is also very crucial to the project as it handles the request from the application in the user’s mobile phone. The web service handles the user authentication, location retrieval and storage, and friends’ approval. The project is expected to grasp how GPS functionality in smartphone works. It will also hopefully be able to help people to find their family or friends and be more alert to their surroundings.

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