ShriKrishnaTS /
JITS-To-Track-a-School-vehicle
Location based Services offer many advantages to the mobile users to retrieve the information about their current location and process that data to get more useful information near to their location. Now days in this fast life where everyone in is hurry to reach their destination, waiting for bus is a hectic and even many of us are unaware of the bus timing, hence to overcome this problem we have come up with system “Development of Just In Time Services For A College” which aims to build an Android application that automates many service aspects related to the college. At specific pickup point the application sends current location of bus to the server, then server sends SMS to students who are supposed to board at the next pickup point. The complete scenario requires everything to be done manually & there is no confusion such that bus can arrive early or late since when it leaves from one stop, student waiting at another stop can easily receive a message/SMS. The project does not provide any room for predictions. This application uses the GPS function, to pin point current location fairly accurate. This application sends an SMS Alert to student who are subscribed and also provides additional services like college/department/university related information, notification, events, updates at the right time. It runs in the background so you are free to use your phone for the other activities like playing games, listening songs etc. Most of the applications developed so far use a handheld GPS receiver device for tracking the location, but we have reduced the cost of device by using mobile phone which has an inbuilt GPS receiver. The application has been developed using Android and Java platforms with the android studio tool.