GPS Location Rooster

Final year project proposal

Awais Ilyas

Muhammad Waqar Tahir

Supervised By

Ms. Sumaira Nazir

Mr. Adeel Siddiqui

Submitted for the partial fulfillment of BS Software engineering degree to the Faculty of Engineering

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES

ISLAMABAD

Jan, 2012

Table of Contents

1. Introduction..

2. Backgrounds

2.1. Exisisting systems

3. Objectives and application areas

4. Project specifications/features

5. Proposed plan for implementation

6. Deliverable outcomes..

7. Resourse requirements

8. References

9. Certification

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1. Introduction

With the growing use of mobile phones & smart GPS devices are becomes very reliable and easy way to find desire location. GPS applications are accurate and reliable. Phone based GPS applications are better than personal navigation devices. It is believed that, phone based GPS systems have the ability to do much more complex tasks that would be impossible without a wireless data network. Now a day’s GPS system is helpful application. It helps to find desired location according to requirement [1]. It provides continuous guidance and automatic rerouting, even if the network connection is lost.

2. Background

Most cell phones in the market include GPS capability. That's a remarkable change. Just a few years ago, standalone GPS devices, were stick on the windshield with a suction cup. These devices were a boon for anyone sick of getting lost, using paper maps, or printing out MapQuest directions, all of which were driving distractions and potential safety risks [3].

Now cell phones can do the same thing for most customers. Some smart phones even come with free navigation applications. That means no up-front price, no monthly fees, and no map or database update costs. The free applications include Google Maps Navigation, which runs on Android smart phones such as the Motorola Droid X and the Samsung Galaxy, and Nokia Ovi Maps, which runs on recent Symbian-powered devices providing basic navigation facility in it [6].

2.1 Existing System

The existing system, GPS Wakeup is an alarm clock which warns the user when he/she gets close to your destination. It is the application for location reminders on the street or in the metro. It needs to register for an online service. This application only accepts GPS positions. It doesn't show the current distance to the destination. Use both GPS and network towers to alert the user when you have arrived at a location [7].

3. Objectives and Applications Areas

As the name implies, Location Rooster allows reminding nearby desired places through GPS. Application main objective is to give alarm on specified location that has dynamically set by user in it. Location Rooster will be very helpful to identify the desired locations while travelling. With the help of this application the user can pre-defined their destinations. This application works on maps. It provides offline mapping from the map which is already saved in application as well as online mapping from Google map.

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Location Rooster gets the Latitude and Longitude information from GPS and displays the exact (or nearest, at times) location in Google Maps and give reminder and voice alert.

4. Project Specification/Features

The project specification and features includes:

Location updating which enables users to receive alerts when a desired destination is nearby.

Open a dynamic map that displays your location in real-time.

Sets the Latitude and Longitude information from GPS, using Google map API.

Add new location from the map by adding Longitude and Latitude value of that particular place.

Sets reminder message and voice alert on desired location.

It provides offline from the stored map as well as online mapping from Google map.

Continuous navigation provides alerts when move away from route.

It allows adding and removing location reminders and also helps to save favorites locations.

The larger storage of a secure digital card allows the user to fit the maps on the phone.

User friendly interface of application will provide easy and reliable access of locations and setting on it.

Select the Navigation icons from the launcher to start quickly and pick a destination.

5. Proposed Plan for Implementation

Our work through this project can be broken up into the following sections:

Requirement Specification

Requirements gathering phase will be completed in 10 days after the start of the project.

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Application Designing

Design process includes developing technical solution of the viewing maps and locations, uploading and retrieving data to and from the Google maps API. Design phase will be completed within a month.

Application Development

After the successful completion of the design phase, development phase will start and will be completed within 3 months approximately.

Documentations

Project progress reports will also be submitted and on the completion of the project, the final report and complete documentation will be generated almost in a month.

Project Gantt Chart/Time Lines

Following are the task and their time lines:

Figure 1: Project Gantt chart

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6. Deliverable Outcomes

The outcomes of the project will be in the form of Android application software integrated in every Android based mobile operating system, along with the detailed documentation of the project.

Figure 2: Android OS phone Figure 3: Application View

7. Resource Requirements

Android mobile required to run the client application that is develop in Eclipse to access. From development point of view we need following resources:

JDK(Java Development Kit), A java software development environment from sun. It includes the JVM, compiler, debugger and other tools for developing Java applets and applications. Each new version of the JDK adds features and enhancements to the language.

Eclipse IDEEclipse is an open platform for tool integration, Eclipse provides the framework for combining disparate tools into a single integrated application with a seamless user interface. New tools are integrated into the Eclipse Platform and its user interface through plug-ins that extend Eclipse's facilities and provide new functionality.

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Android SDKA software development kit that enables developers to create applications for the Android platform. The Android SDK includes sample projects with source code, development tools, an emulator, and required libraries to build Android applications. Applications are written using the Java programming language.

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 or 2008SQL Server Management Studio is an integrated environment for accessing, configuring, managing, administering, and developing all components of SQL Server. SQL Server Management Studio combines a broad group of graphical tools with a number of rich script editors to provide access to SQL Server to developers and administrators of all skill levels.

Action script using Adobe Flash CS 5Action Script is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language that is designed specifically for applications animation. Originally released with Macromedia Flash 4 and enhanced for Flash 5, Action Script is a sophisticated version of the script language introduced in Adobe Flash CS5.

Net Beans IDE 6.9A Java-based development environment (IDE) and platform originally developed by Sun. It includes user interface functions, source code editor, GUI editor, version control as well as support for distributed applications.

Android GPS mobile phone

Apart from the above two things, we also require:

Google APIs Add-on Android Virtual device Targeting Google APIs

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8. References

The following documents and websites have been referred to whilst writing this report.

1. ‘Google Mobile – Google Maps Navigation’http://www.google.com/mobile/navigation/

2. ‘Android phones in Pakistan’http://www.androidpakistan.com/android-gps-tracking-pakistan-instamapper/

3. ‘Geekers magazine’http://www.geekersmagazine.com/best-android-gps-apps.html

4. ‘The Code Project – The development resource ’http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/GPSLocator.aspx

5. ‘Android10 organization’ http://android10.org/index.php/articleslocationmaps/226-android-location-providers-gps-network-passive

6. ‘Android and Me’http://androidandme.com/2010/04/applications/ultimate-gps-showdown-for-android/

7. ‘GPS WakeUp’https://market.android.com/details?id=hu.dolphio.gpswakeup&feature=also_installed

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CERTIFICATION

Ms. Sumaira Nazir

Supervisor Signature ___________________

Mr. Adeel Siddiqui

Co- Supervisor Signature ___________________

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