[ INTRODUCTION ] GPS VEHICLE BILLING SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

In the developing countries like NEPAL, only small no of people have their private vehicles. So, mostly people depend on local vehicles which charge their customer as per the rate specified and distance travelled. These vehicles use a specified device to display the distance travelled and the fare accordingly. The device mainly used to measure in these vehicles is called taximeter. It simply calculates the distance by calculating the number of rotation of wheel and multiplying it with its circumference.

These vehicles are owned by a specified person (owner) and they give it to someone they trust to drive it who in return should submit the rent specified. The whole system runs on the basis of trust. No exact data is available for any party to evaluate each other. Local vehicles here are like the private vehicle of the driver. Vehicle like taxies have a specified taxi fare assigned initially in the device but they are never updated as the device has no connection with the authority once they are installed. This creates problem in case of any need in change of rate. For that the whole device has to be brought to the authorized place and each need to be updated.  

Nepal is a centralized country with Kathmandu as its central. The maximum of advanced facilities and opportunities lies at the capital and some other cities. Anyone interested to get such facilities and opportunities must visit these cities. Many people visit or stay at the capital due to various reasons like work, study etc.  Nepal being a country with religious belief, people celebrate most of the festivals religiously with their families. So, during any festival most of the load comes to the vehicles which are always packed. This is the time when drivers try to get some extra and they overload the vehicle with passengers.  Especially the vehicles moving outside the capital have a much overloaded passenger. In addition to this the roads connecting the remote places are in very bad condition. Everyday drivers risk their life to travel through such roads. This is why there is large no. of accidents occurring in Nepal. Not only this but the lack of traffic rules also because accidents like drinking and driving is the major one of them. Similarly the death toll in these accidents is also large. Many people have to lose their life due to such accidents.

According to the daily newspaper THE HIMALAYAN TIMES dated 2012-7-30:

“The number of road accidents recorded during the year 2011/12 has increased by 10.22 per cent to reach 21,577 as compared to 19,575 in the preceding year.
As many as 1,754 people were killed in road accidents during the fiscal 2011/12 against 1,664 in 2010/11. It is 5.40 per cent increase in road deaths.
With the beginning of new fiscal 2012/13, a total of 126 people were killed including 110 in seven major accidents that occurred elsewhere in the country.” [1]

As stated above,there were 5.40 percent of increase in road deaths. Similarly we noticed that a total of 126 people were killed with the beginnibg of new fiscal year 2012/13. All these cases were not the case of sudden death. Most of the cases, victim dies at the hospital or on the way to hospital. This may be  due to delay in reaching the rescuee team at the spot. Even hospitals are not located near. So they must be informed in time in case of saving some more life.

 1.2 Problem Statement:

Here we discuss the problems arising in developing countries specifically Nepal. After some research, we came across different problems in the local vehicle system of Nepal. These are the problems that drove us to initiate our project.

 There aren’t means to get the exact info about the distance covered by the vehicles to calculate the exact fare for the passenger

· No exact information about the vehicle to  their owner in order to keep track of the vehicle

· There are an increased number of deaths in road accidents mostly because of lack of immediate information about the accident.

· There is no such means to instantly update the vehicle fare in case of any change. 

1.3 Objectives

To solve the problem stated above, our project needs to fulfill following objectives:

1.     Accurate measurement of distance using GPS
2.     Measure the tilt of the vehicle with accelerometer.
3.     Keep record of the track within the certain limit.

1.4 Application

application here
 

1.5 Overview of report

The document presented provides complete information about the project so that anyone can understand it. It has been divided into five chapters each containing a part of the information.

The chapter one deals with the introduction part which includes the background study, problem statement, objectives and application of the project. Chapter two is the literature review which contains information about the problem, possible solutions, and solutions being used in recent as well as past projects. It also informs about our method of the solution and its benefit over other methods.

Chapter three is Project description. As its name indicates, this chapter describes the working of the project. In addition to this, it also clarifies about the methods used in this project in the methodology subchapter. Apart from that it includes algorithm and flowchart. The diagrams like block diagram and circuit diagram helps to get more clear view. Chapter four basically is about the component description and project detail.

Chapter five is the result and discussion part which shows the result of different tests we had done to know if the objectives was meet or not. It also includes information about the errors, their causes and possible solutions. Chapter six provides detail about the assumptions we have made and the possible limitations of our project.

Chapter seven gives the conclusion part. It provides the possible further enhancement of the project along with the recommendation and conclusion section. The last chapter which is chapter seven is the reference that includes all the sources that I have used to make this document.