Tracking Car Location Using GPS-Agnostic Plate Number Recognition

Authors

  • Angel Jeba Rathna. S  PG Scholar, Department of IT, Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Subbulakshmi. T. C  Assistant Professor, Department of IT, Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India

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Abstract

Smart phones nowadays are equipped with GPS chips to enable navigation and location-based services. A malicious app with the access to GPS data can easily track the person who carries the smart phone. People may disable the GPS module and turn it on only when necessary to protect their location privacy. However, in this paper, we demonstrate that an attacker is still able to track a person by using the embedded magnetometer sensor in victim’s smart phone, even when the GPS module is disabled all the time. Moreover, this attack neither requests user permissions related to locations for installation, nor does its operation rely on wireless signals like network positioning or suffer from signal propagation loss. Only the angles of a car’s turning measured by the magnetometer sensor of a driver’s smart phone are utilized. The results show that it is possible for attacker to precisely pinpoint the actual path when the driving path includes 11 turns or more. More simulations are performed to demonstrate the attack with lager selected local areas.

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2021-04-10

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Volume 9, Issue 1, March-April-2021

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Angel Jeba Rathna. S, Subbulakshmi. T. C, " Tracking Car Location Using GPS-Agnostic Plate Number Recognition, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp.245-251, March-April-2021.