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International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
Volume 117 No. 17 2017, 49-55
ISSN: 1311-8080 (printed version); ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version)
url: http://www.ijpam.eu
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LUGGAGE TRACKING SYSTEM USING IOT

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Sudha Senthilkumar, 2Brindha.K, 3Rathi.R, 4Charanya. R, 5Mayank Jain
3,4
Professor,
VIT, Vellore – 632 014. Tamil Nadu, India.

Abstract: The luggage tracking system is designed financial benefit, accuracy and efficiency. When IoT
to track the luggage and bags which gets lost or theft is connected with sensors, it encompasses
from public and other areas. As people travel, there technologies such as smart homes, vehicle tracking,
is always a risk of theft of the luggage and bags monitoring and controlling home appliances and
which is where the proposed system comes into ultimately smart cities. Everything is unique and
account. The luggage tracking system works on an identifiable and moreover becomes easy accessible
alarm basis where an alarm is set up with the arduino when it is augmented with the Internet and computer
uno board and a GPS module. Also the alarm is infrastructure.[1]
turned on as soon as the bag is theft and goes outside The Uno is a microcontroller board which is
a particular range. Furthermore, a map is created based on ATmega328P and it has 6 analog inputs, 14
through which we can track the location of the bag digital input/output pins out of whom 6 can be used
as it moves, as the markers are dropped which in a as PWM outputs, a USB connection, 16 MHz quartz
way gives us the location of the bag as it moves signal, an ICSP header, power jack and reset button.
away from the owner. In this, the IoT components It has everything which is required to support a
are being used like Arduino Board and a GPS microcontroller and we can connectit with a USB
Module in order to track the bag and a frontend or cable or connect it with AC to DC adapter. [11]
mobile application is created in order to monitor.
1.1 Technical Specifications
Keywords:Arduino Board, luggage tracking, map,
IoT. Microcontroller ATmega328P

1. Introduction Operating Voltage 5V

Input Voltage 7-12V
Loss of luggage can happen with anyone irrespective (recommended)
of the circumstances and conditions. Luggage and Input Voltage (limit) 6-20V
bags with important documents or precious things
and can be lost or theft with which people can lose Digital I/O Pins 14 ( 6 for PWM output)
their important material. Generally it is seen that PWM Digital I/O Pins 6
people get robbed in public areas like railway
Analog Input Pins 6
stations, bus stands and other public and private
areas. Also people can even forget their luggage and DC Current per I/O Pin 20mA
bags which can have important and necessary things. DC Current for 3.3V Pin 50mA
So it is very necessary to track down the bags in case
of loss and theft. A lot of other tracking systems and Flash Memory 32 kb (ATmega328P)of
devices are already present like car tracking systems which 0.5kb used by
and shoe tracking systems. bootloader
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of SRAM 2kb (ATmega328P)
objects like buildings, vehicles, etc which are
EEPROM 1kb (ATmega328P)
embedded with sensors, electronics and other
network related things which helps these objects to Clock Speed 16MHz
collect and exchange information. IOT allows the Length 68.6 mm
objects to be sensed and controlled from a remote
access point, which does the integration of Width 53.4 mm
computers with the physical world which improves Height 25 g

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In this project a luggage tracking system would be • These tags have inbuilt GPS chip through which
created in order to track the bags which are lost. In this, the company would track the lost bag. There are a lot of
the luggage bag would contain the hardware of the companies in the market who are providing these tags
tracking system or simply we can say the tracking with different features like dynotag, LugLoc and Robot
device through which we would be able to track the Check. [13]
bag. With this an alarm would also be connected to the
device which would ring whenever the bags get away Disadvantage
from the owner and gets out of a particular range and •
area. For this purpose a map is also created using • Again the tags don’t notify you as soon as the bag
google geolocation api, in which the area has been set is theft or lost, instead when we find out that the bag
and predefined through which we can track the bag has been lost then only we try to track them down.
once it gets away from the owner. On the map we can • The tags don’t provide you a mobile or computer
see the location of the bag where it is as the markers are frontend interface to track and view the location of the
being dropped which gives us the location of the bag as bag, instead the company owning the tag would try to
it moves away from the owner. Also certain range flags track down the location, so the owner is always in dark
has been set which will notify the owner on the map about what is exactly happening.
timely that what is the distance between the owner and
his bag like “under 20m”, “under 30m”. 2.3 Trackdot Luggage Tracker

2. Related Works Trackdot is a luggage tracker device which is placed

inside the bag when a person is travelling. It works on
In recent years not much has been done in order to ground-based cellular technology and micro-
track the lost bags, instead video monitoring is a way electronics. When in an airplane during takeoff, it shuts
through which the areas are monitored by human down automatically and enters in an airplane mode and
beings and the suspicious bags or robbed activities are again activates during landing when the pilot applies
monitored. Also some of the bag monitoring techniques brakes. [14]
has been implemented in order to check the things
which are present inside the bag so that they don’t pose Disadvantage
a threat to the security. Some of the techniques present •
are: • It is very costly approx. $56.
• It is available in western countries
2.1 Konas Bags
• Does not provide instant notification if the bag is
theft or lost which is a major drawback.
Konas bags offers luggage and bag packs that we can
• Not available in India.
track from the smartphone. With the help of the
tracking device present in the bag, we can track the •
device through the application installed in the 3. Proposed System
smartphone.[12]
The proposed system uses the technique of Internet of
Disadvantage Things in order to track the bags. In this a hardware
would be created and installed which would be having
• In this we can only track the bags once they have the basic arduino board with a GPS module and an
alarm being connected to it. A map has been created
been lost and not when they are theft, so this doesn’t
provide the feature of providing the surety that whether which would be synchronized in order to track the
the bag would ever be recovered or not. location of the bag. Furthermore, the map has the
features that as soon as the bag gets lost or theft and it
• Also, we won’t be knowing when the bag was lost
moves away from the owner and goes out of a
or theft so if we get to know about it few hours later,
particular range, the alarm would start ringing so that
then it can be a possibility that may have transported or
the owner gets notified where exactly the bag is. Also it
travelled far away and a lot of distance.
would help the owner to track down the location of the
bag which could be seen on the map as the markers
2.2 Trackable Bag Tags
would be dropped which gives us the location of the
bag as it moves away from the owner. Moreover, the
• A lot of trackable tags are available which can be
owner would also be notified with the flag messages
tied with the bag in order to track the bags when they when the bag moves out of a particular range like 10m,
are lost. 20m and 30m.

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Advantages
• The map and the markers would help the owner to
• The alarm would help the owner to identify from track down the exact location of the bag.
where the sound is coming and it would become easy • The flags in the map would help the owner to check
for the owner to track down the bag as the range which how far the bag is from the owner.
has been set is less.

3.1 System Architectures

Figure 1. System Model

3.1.1 System Entities owner to identify what is the distance between the
owner and the luggage bag. This can be achieved my
• Arduino GPS Shield dropping the markers as the bag moves away from the
owner which would also give us a route of where the
The Arduino GPS shield is the most necessary bag is moving.
component as it would be useful to connect and
synchronize the shield with the front end and the 4. Experimental Evaluation
computer so that it gets synchronized with the map and
helps in detecting the location. In this, a map has been developed using the google
geolocation api, which would help us to identify the
• Server location of the luggage. An example of Bus Stand in
Bangalore has been taken and assumed that a person is
The server would be used in a way when we connect over there. The map shows the location of the person
the Wifi module with the mobile which would be used and also the message flags. Also, the markers dropped
as a GPS module and connected to the Wifi. would let us know the exact location of the bag, as the
markers keep on increasing with the movement of the
• Alarm bag which is tracked through the map. These would be
connected to the Arduino GPS Shield which already
This would be useful as a notification when it rings in has the alarm connected, so that the map can be
order to notify that the bag has by passed a particular synchronized with the GPS module and the location
range from the owner. can be traced on the frontend (map) which is monitored
on the computer.
• Map

The map would be synchronized in a way that it gives

us the location of the bag and would also notify the
owner through message flags which would help the

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Figure 2. Map of Majestic Bus Stand, Bangalore

In Fig.2 we can see the location of a bus stand. It • The Blue circle is 20m away from the owner and
has the following information: the Blue flag would display the message on the map as
• The red marker in the middle of the circle shows “within 20m”.
the location of the person. • The Red circle is 30m away from the owner and
• The green circle is 10m away from the person. As the Red flag would display the message on the map as
soon as the bag moves 10m away from the owner, the “within 30m”.
alarm would ring and the Green flag would display the
message as “Theft” on the map.

Figure 3. Map of Majestic Bus Stand, Bangalore with markers

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