Abstract
Collecting information about a vehicle offers a lot of advantages, starting with the mere possibility of tracking the location, the followed route, continuing with the identification of the motion parameters and/ or operating parameters of the vehicle or the parameters of the way on it moves, and ending with the optimization of the followed route or operation mode according to various criteria. Such a Vehicle Tracking System (VTS) is composed of two subsystems: hardware and software, the last one being designed with low level programing language functions specific for data acquisition. It can act individually and collects and stores information in a local memory (similar as a data-logger), called passive type VTS, or it can be used with special designed software (high level programming language) for monitoring and management of vehicles, sending information in real-time to an operational base or server, called active type VTS. This paper presents a digital system for monitoring and management of individual or fleet automotive vehicles that combines the passive and active advantages of the VTS.
Keywords: Monitoring, tracking, vehicle, fleet, GPS