DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MOBILE PHONE-BASED ROUTE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR SECURITY APPLICATIONS

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MOBILE PHONE-BASED ROUTE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR SECURITY APPLICATIONS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION
ii
DEDICATION
iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS
v
LIST OF TABLES
viii
LIST OF FIGURES
ix
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
xi
ABSTRACT
xiv

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the study
1.2 Problem statement and justification
1.3 Objectives of the study
1.3.1 Main objective
1.3.2 Specific objectives
1.4 Rationale of the research

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Location Based Services (LBS) technology applications
2.2.1 Emergency relief, public safety and security
2.2.2 Navigation aids, commercial and information services
2.2.3 Business safety and efficiency, transaction and billing
2.3 Other related work
2.3.1 Monitoring systems on mobile phones

CHAPTER THREE: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Determination of the location of a mobile terminal
3.2.1 Device-based positioning methods
3.2.2 Network-based positioning methods
3.2.3 Hybrid positioning methods
3.3 Software developer methods for obtaining position data
3.3.1 Handset-initiated location requests
3.3.2 Network-initiated location requests
3.4 Global Positioning System (GPS) technology
3.4.1 GPS signal transmission and reception
3.5 The point-in-polygon problem
3.5.1 The angle summation algorithm
3.5.2 The grid test
3.5.3 The ray casting method
3.6 Calculation of speed using GPS coordinates
3.7 Client/server systems
3.8 Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications network
3.8.1 Mobile Station (MS)
3.8.2 Base Station Subsystem (BSS)
3.8.3Network and Switching Subsystems (NSS)
3.9Short Message Service (SMS)

CHAPTER FOUR: MATERIALS AND METHODS

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Block diagram of the complete mobile phone-based security system
4.3 The J2ME application (TrackMe)
4.3.1 The J2ME code
4.4 The server-side development
4.4.1 The My Structured Query Language (MySQL) database
The route-geo-system application
4.6 The Ozeki-NG SMS gateway

CHAPTER FIVE: RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

5.1 Introduction
5.2The J2ME application
5.3 The server-side
5.4 The route-geo-system
5.4.1 The system‟s response to deviation from the route
5.4.2 The system‟s response to the speed limits
5.5 The Ozeki-NG SMS gateway
5.6The working of the whole system

CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

6.1 Conclusion
6.2 Recommendations

REFERENCES67

APPENDICES70

APPENDIX A: THE J2ME CODE
APPENDIX B: THE ROUTE-GEO-SYSTEM CODE
APPENDIX C: THE SERVER SIDE
APPENDIX D: OZEKI-NG SMS GATEWAY

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MOBILE PHONE-BASED ROUTE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR SECURITY APPLICATIONS