Building a GPS Tracking Web System

Question

I'd like to develop a tracking system using an API of course (like the famous Orange API). the idea is simple:

• I send a SMS (from my Web interface) to the person i want to track
• The person's mobile terminal (GPS like this) send me back automatically the coordinates by SMS.
• The sent information are displayed on the user's web interface.

The questions are simple:

• How the terminal can send automatically the response?
• How to indicate in the message that the information is for "user4655"?
• How to make connection between the information and the database?

Thanks,

Regards.

Answer 1

* How the terminal can send automatically the response?

Ans: You set the gateway and the time intervals you want the device to send the sms to on the device itself.

* How to indicate in the message that the information is for "user4655"?

Ans: The gateway you use will have the API to determine that the number it is sent from. The device will use a registered phone number from either a sim or enabled by one of those cell providers.

* How to make connection between the information and the database?

Ans: I dont understand this. But I'm guessing you will have a database to keep track of the user data. You'll just probably need another table that is a child of the user, which has a list of the data and the time they came in.