Vehicle tracking system/Jan08

Question

hi,

we are developing cost effective vehicle tracking system, for my knowledge Using GPS to track vehicle costs more. So we are looking to develop using GPRS system which costs less.

my doubt is can track the vehicle using only GPRS (not using GPS at all) is this possible .please correct if i am wrong if you any documentation or link it will be useful.

thanks in advance, Mahesh

Answer 1

If you don't need an exact location you can use cell tower information and some external api to get the coordinates for each tower. It's the same function that google uses in their mobile Maps application.

Example: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/DeepCast.aspx

Answer 2

This appears to be a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/416708/vehicle-tracking-systemjava-j2ee