Distributed monitoring architecture for movable objects over the GSM system

With the popularity of the network, many applications have been designed to be a distributed system. The more distance for communication, the more hardware and lines for communication are needed. As the GSM has been widely used for telecommunication, it can also be applied to the wireless communication. This paper proposes a wireless monitoring architecture based on the GSM system and takes a car system as a test case. The proposed architecture is divided into three parts. The first is that the data collected from the sensor are sent to the GSM provided by the stimulated message of GSM. The second is that the GSM provides processes the received data. To reduce the transmission traffic, a dead-reckoning algorithm is applied to decide whether the process result should be sent to the monitoring center or not. The third is that the monitoring center receives the data which are sending from the GSM provider to give advises to the car driver. With the help of this proposed architecture, a wireless monitoring architecture based on GSM system is verified. In addition, the monitoring center can combine with the GIS to display the car status in an electronic map.