Abstract—With the development and awareness of social
affairs concerning locating missing person and location
detection services has been widely on demand. This paper
explains the design and experiment of incorporating the GPS &
GSM network positioning technology to deliver a locationbased
service for tracking and detecting human. In this study,
GPS and GSM feature were utilized to emulate the tracking
and detection process. Integration of this technology is
supported by the use of several applications, devices and
services. The proposed model comprises of GPS sender and
receiver, GSM service and provider. With the extensive use of
smartphones and mobile applications, this model is useful to
identify the location of a person in a public area and may
benefit parents in monitoring and tracking their children
whereabouts. This paper, presented the methods adopted in
developing of the initial prototype as a pilot study. The result of
the evaluation discussed recommendations for further
improvement in the prototype development. This shall be
achieved by adding specific values for a better outcome. A detail
result on the improvement will be discussed in the next paper.
The purpose of this study is to share this information with other
researcher and to foresee ways to improve the current processes
hence the same study can be initiated and explored by others. A
further enhancement of this service shall be proposed and
another set of evaluation should be performed thus there be a
potential for application commercialization.
Index Terms—Global positioning system (GPS), global
system for mobile (GSM), human tracking and detection.
The authors are with the Software Information Systems Section at
Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Institute of Information Technology,
Malaysia (e-mail: lnurina@unikl.edu.my, emnazreeneaman@gmail.com).
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Cite:Inurina Ibrahim and Engku Mohammad Nazreen B. Engku Azman, "Development of Location Detection and Human Tracking Application via GPS and GSM Service: A Pilot Study," Journal of Advances in Computer Networks vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 179-183, 2016.
