Design and Development of a Cloud-Based Trip-Tracking System

A trip-tracking system records people traveled route which could be retrieved immediately or latter for certain purposes. The recent tracking application does not integrate both passive and real-time tracking function into one system. The aim of this work is to build a tracking system that integrates both passive and real-time tracking functions. A new system architecture consisting the client side which is a map tracking application on smart devices, and the server side which includes a server and a database in the cloud, was developed. Because of the ability to store and process database on the cloud, the system would be more secure, available and durable. More importantly, it can be tracked at any time and from anywhere. The results demonstrated a complete system with three real-world experiments on Android application and web interface.

1. Introduction

Due to the quick advances of social networks, more and more people are interested in sharing their traveling experience. In addition, people also like to track their locations in real-time when running, hiking, biking, or traveling, hence a friendly tool that helps users track their footprint is highly demanded. The existing trip-tracking application does not integrate both passive and real-time tracking function together. Thus the purpose of this work is to develop a trip-tracking system using cloud-based database. Cloud-based applications such as Cloud-Based Augmentation [1], Accessing Restaurant Information using Location Based Service [2], and AppaaS [3] have been developed.