DWMC

“Dude, Where’s My Car”

What I have learned…

Upon doing this project, we became more familiar on different terms,

concepts and devices that are really related to it. We come up to a project that is
for us, a device that is very applicable here in our country due to the growing
number of cases involving or related to carjacking and car towing.

First is the Global System for Mobile Communications, or GSM (originally

from Groupe Spécial Mobile), is the world's most popular standard for mobile
telephone systems. The GSM Association estimates that 80% of the global
mobile market uses the standard. GSM is used by over 1.5 billion peopleacross
more than 212 countries and territories. This ubiquity means that subscribers can
use their phones throughout the world, enabled by international roaming
arrangements between mobile network operators. GSM differs from its
predecessor technologies in that both signaling and speech channels are digital,
and thus GSM is considered a second generation (2G) mobile phone system.
This also facilitates the wide-spread implementation of data communication
applications into the system.

Next is the Global Positioning System (GPS), is a space-based global navigation

satellite system (GNSS) that provides reliable location and time information in all
weather and at all times and anywhere on or near the Earth when and where
there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. It is
maintained by the United States government and is freely accessible by anyone
with a GPS receiver.

Non-military satellite services

There are three basic categories of non-military satellite services:

Fixed satellite services handle hundreds of billions of voice, data, and video
transmission tasks across all countries and continents between certain points on
the Earth's surface.

Mobile satellite systems help connect remote regions, vehicles, ships, people
and aircraft to other parts of the world and/or other mobile or stationary
communications units, in addition to serving as navigation systems.

Scientific research satellites provide us with meteorological information, land

survey data (e.g., remote sensing), Amateur (HAM) Radio, and other different
scientific research applications such as earth science, marine science, and
atmospheric research.