Determining the Location of a Bus in Real-Time Using LoRa Technology

Travelers without prior information about the bus they are waiting for, often waste time at bus stations which affects their daily activity plan. GPS receivers are used to address this problem by providing real-time information about the location of the bus, however, it is quite expensive and power consuming to use and every bus needs to have a GSM/GPRS module to be able to send the information to the internet. This paper suggests a low-cost and less power consuming approach of using LoRa technology, geometry methods to determine the location of the bus and only one GSM module for multiple buses to transmit the data to the internet. Results in the project show promising achievement of determining the location of the bus in real-time.