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Chinese Traditional Medical Journal 

 

SMART CHILD TRACKING SYSTEM USING GSM AND GPS 

LIU Wei, XIONG Xingjiang, QIAO Lumin 

, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, 

Beijing 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION 
 

Children monitoring systems are 

extensively used across the globe to 

reassure parents that their children are 

protected from suspicious behaviour. In 

today's society, almost 80% of the 

population under the age of seven or eight 

possesses a smart phone [1]. The planned 

technology would also monitor a child's 

movements outside the house. This is for a 

variety of reasons, one of which being the 

incredible features and capabilities that 

modern smart phones, particularly those 

based on Android, provide. GPS has 

exceptional positioning capabilities, which 

may be leveraged to design innovative 

applications that assist in finding missing 

or lost children. This initiative is intended 

for use by parents and is focused at 

assisting in the recovery of missing or lost 

children. It capitalises on the fact that the 

majority of today's youngsters own a smart 

phone, which is ideal for this kind of 

circumstance. In this work, GPS is 

integrated with one of the fundamental 

services of a smart phone, GSM, more 

precisely SMS, to create a single system. 

EXISTING SYSTEM 
 

The system, created by Yuichiro MORI et al., 

makes advantage of the "Autonomous 

Abstract 
 

Recently, every 40 seconds, a child goes missing or is abducted worldwide. Many parents are 

worried about the increased occurrence of children straying. We are forced to see and read 

many tales about children and students who are abducted or who do not return home. The 

majority of the tales end in tragedy. The purpose of this study is to discuss the 

implementation of a children monitoring location system for each kid that attends school. 

With an increase in the number of children going missing, Sen. Charles Schumer has 

recommended that the federal government subsidise monitoring devices for autistic children 

to ensure they do not go missing. These suggested tracking devices might be worn as 

wristwatches, anklets, or integrated into identification cards. The kid module is comprised of 

an Arm7 processor, a global positioning system, and a global system for mobile 

communication, while the receiver is comprised of the parent's mobile phone. It is really 

beneficial for women's safety. 

 

 



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Clustering Technique" to manage groups of 

Android terminals tied to schoolchildren. 

Android devices include a wireless LAN and 

Bluetooth module. As a consequence, 

youngsters get little personalised attention. It 

provides a lower level of security [2]. Cyber 

Travel Tips did research [3] and discovered 

that in Malaysia,



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The majority of missing children fall 

into one of two groups. The first 

classification is disappearance, which 

involves fleeing from one's home. 

Additionally, a technique for 

monitoring children is being developed 

using mobile ad hoc networks. 

According to the approach proposed in 

[4], each parent cannot get group 

information on the child's whereabouts 

in a GPS or tag-based system. A self-

configurable system for monitoring 

offspring of the next generation. The 

Hiroshima City Children Tracking 

System is an ad hoc network-based 

safety assistance system for children. 

Field trials were undertaken in 

collaboration with a Hiroshima 

elementary school. The purpose of this 

work is to propose a new generation of 

children tracking system based on the 

experiences and results of the 

Hiroshima children tracking system 

field tests [5]. Existing technologies, on 

the other hand, are insufficient to 

prevent crimes against children and to 

assist parents, since it is difficult to 

collect data on children collectively. 

SYSTEM DESIGN 

 Creating a kid monitoring 

system to reassure parents 

that their youngster is 

protected from questionable 

behaviour. If a kid is 

missing, the information is 

transmitted to the 

appropriate parent's mobile 

phone if they leave the 

service area. Additionally, if 

a youngster wishes to 

communicate that they are 

in danger, they will hit the 

panic button located on their 

school ID card. Internet 

access is available on 

mobile terminals. It accepts 

the child's message and 

forwards it to the parent's 

cell phone. This architecture 

consists of the following 

components:Power supply 
 

 Arduino UNO KIT 
 

 Panic button 
 

 GPS 
 

 GSM 
 

LPC 2148 

 

 

 

 

The ARM7TDMI core is the industry’s 

most widely used 32-bit embedded RISC 

microprocessor. Optimized for cost and 

power- sensitive applications, the 

ARM7TDMI solution provides the low 

power consumption, small size and high 

performance needed in portable, embedded 

applications. 

The ARM7TDMI core is a general-

purpose 32-bit microprocessor from the 

ARM family. The ARM series of 

microprocessors provides excellent 

performance at a low power consumption 

and a compact footprint. The ARM 

architecture is built on the ideas of 

Reduced Instruction Set Computing 

(RISC). The RISC instruction set and 

associated decoding process are much 



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simpler than those used in Complex 

Instruction Set Computer (CISC) 

architectures. This simplicity results in the 

following: 

 

GSM MODEM                                     

 

 

GSM is a worldwide recognised standard 

for digital cellular communication. A 

GSM modem is a kind of wireless modem 

that communicates via a GSM network. 

GSM SMS techniques play a critical part 

in this system. GSM SMS messaging is 

capable of handling a significant volume 

of transactions in a relatively short period 

of time. 

 

time. This single GSM connection is 

capable of processing hundreds of 

transactions. 

GPS MODULE 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GPS is a multiple-satellite-based radio 

positioning system in which each GPS 

satellite broadcasts data that enables the 

chosen satellite's distance to be 

accurately measured. The Global 

Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite 

navigation system based in space that 

gives accurate position and timing 

information in all weather situations, 

anywhere on or near the globe. 

PANIC BUTTON 
 

This panic button may be used in 

conjunction with a hardware module. 

If the youngster presses the panic 

button, a message is sent to the parent's 

mobile phone. 

ADVANTAGES 
 

1. Because the youngster did not 

have the expertise to update his 

position on the map at the time, 

the application automatically 

handles location requests without 

user intervention. 2. When internet 

access is unavailable, that 

programme utilises SMS. The 

frameworknecessitates location 

and telecommunications services. 



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3. It may be used inside without 

GPS satellite connection. At that 

point, it may make advantage of 

network-based location services. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V.SOFTWARE TOOLS 
 

ARDUINO IDE 

 

RESULT 

 

 

 

 

Location in Google maps 

 

VII.CONCLUSIONAND 

FUTURESCOPE 

At the completion of the experiment, it 

was determined that it will be used to 

locate missing children. This project was 

provided detailed information on kid 

tracking systems via the use of two 

components, namely GPS and GSM 

telephony services. Finally, this 

application is still in need of improvement. 

Emergency notifications and similar 

features may be added to the system to 

improve it. The suggested system will be 

further developed in further study. 

REFERENCES 

[1] Atsushi Ito, Yoshiaki Kakuda, 

Tomoyuki Ohta, and Shinji Inoue, "A new 

safety assistance system for children on 

school routes utilising mobile ad hoc 

networks," forthcoming in IEICE 

Transactions on Communications, 

vol.E94-B, no.1. 

[2] C.R. Lin and M. Gerla, 

"Distributed clustering for adhoc 

networks," IEEE Journal on Selected 

Areas of Common Interest, Vol.15, no.7, 

pp. 1265–1275, 1997. 

[3] Eitaro Kohno, Tomoyuki Ohta, and 

Yoshiaki Kakuda, "Secure decentralised 

data transmission against node capture 

attacks in wireless sensor networks," 

Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International 

Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized 

Systems (ISADS2009), Athens, Greece, 

pp. 35-40, 2009. 

[4] W.C.M. Hsiao and S.K.J. Chang, 

"The Optimal Location Update Strategy 

for a Cellular Network-Based Traffic 

Information System," 2006 Intelligent 

Transportation Systems conference. 

[5] H. Taniguchi, M. Inoue, T. 

Masuzawa, and H. Fujiwara, " Clustering 

method in ad-hoc networks," IEICE 

Trans., Inform. & Syst. (Japanese Edition), 

Vol. J84-D-I, no. 2, pp. 127–135, February 

2001. 



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[6] J.Saranya, J.Selvakumar, 

"Implementation of a Children Tracking 

System on Android Mobile Terminals," 

International Conference on 

Communication and Signal Processing, 

India, April 3-5, 2013. 

[7] Lijun Jiang, Lim Nam Hoe, and 

Lay Leong Loon, "An Integrated UWB 

and GPS Location Sensing System in a 

Hospital Setting," 

 

[8] proposed at the 2010 IEEE 5th 

Industrial Electronics and Applications 

Conference is. 

[9] [10] Otsason, A. Varshavsky, A. 

LaMarca, and E. D. Lara, "Accurate GSM 

Indore Location," in Proceedings of the 

Seventh International Conference on 

Ubiquitous Computing (Ubi-Comp 2005), 

Tokyo, Japan, pp. 141–158. 

[10] [11] Peng Wang, Zhiwen Zhao, 

Chongbin Xu, Zushun Wu, and Yi Luo 

presented "Design and Implementation of 

a Low-Power Tracking System Using a 

GPSGPRS Module" at the 2010 IEEE 5th 

Industrial Electronics and Applications 

Conference. 

[11] [12] Tomoyuki Ohta, Shinji Inoue, 

Yoshiaki Kakuda, and Kenji Ishida, "An 

adaptive multi-hop clustering algorithm for 

ad hoc networks with high mobility," 

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of 

Electronics, Communications, and 

Computer Sciences, vol.E86-A, no.7, 

pp.1689-1697, 2003. 

[12] [13] Yuichiro MORI, Hideharu 

KOJIMA, Eitaro KOHNO, Shinji INOUE, 

Tomoyuki OHTA, and Yoshiaki 

KAKUDA, "A Self-Configurable New 

Generation Children Tracking System 

Based on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 

Composed of Android Mobile Terminals," 

2011 tenth International symposium on 

Autonomous decentralised systems. Linear 

Networks and Systems, W.-K. Chen 

(Bookstyle) 

 

Location in Google maps 

 

VII.CONCLUSIONAND 

FUTURESCOPE 

At the completion of the experiment, it 

was determined that it will be used to 

locate missing children. This project was 

provided detailed information on kid 

tracking systems via the use of two 

components, namely GPS and GSM 

telephony services. Finally, this 

application is still in need of improvement. 

Emergency notifications and similar 

features may be added to the system to 

improve it. The suggested system will be 

further developed in further study. 

 

 

 


