Bus Locator via SMS Using Android Application

Abstract—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 “Bus Locator via SMS Using Android Application” which aims to build an Android application that automates all the aspects related to the college bus arrival. 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. Second module includes Displaying Graphical-Map of current bus location at server side. Third module includes blood bank at server side. 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. Android and java platforms are used to develop the application using eclipse tool