Recently I wanted to stick a tracking system to my car for surveillance and tracking purpose. But instead of buying a tracking system I thought it would be a good project to build a tracking system myself, to get a start I searched for open source vehicle tracking system but after googling for some time I didn’t found much information, all I got that there are only open source software for vehicle tracking and not complete vehicle tracking system i.e. both hardware and software. So I decided to make an open source vehicle tracking system with fully documented hardware and software. Main goal of this project is to build an open source platform which can be used by any one who want to make their own tracking system.

I have created this blog for this purpose only, here I will be documenting all the process involved in making the open source vehicle tracking system, I named it DhruvTracker (Dhruv is a Sanskrit word which means pole star or guiding star). My first step would be to prepare a rough block or functional diagram to identify my requirements. I’ll keep posted here as I progress.

Pranav