# Solution for GPS tracking of the vehicle

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**Created:** [22 August 2022 09:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/solution-for-gps-tracking-of-the-vehicle/66745 "2022-08-22T09:42:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [22 August 2022 11:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/solution-for-gps-tracking-of-the-vehicle/66745/5 "2022-08-22T11:56:29Z")

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Four years ago some of my IoT students worked on a mini-project to track the route taken by someone riding a bicycle. They used an app called Owntracks on an Android mobile phone to send the data via a remote MQTT broker to a Raspberry Pi at school where Node-RED wrote the 'points' away to a MySQL database and displayed the tracks on a Node-RED Dashboard. This meant the students could see the position of the cyclist in realtime and could play the results back (offline) from the dB.

The benefit of this approach is you don't need any extra hardware apart from a mobile phone.

If I was tackling the project again I'd probably see how the Telegram app shapes up for this application.

I published it on 'Share Your Projects'

> [@Tracking a Mobile Device](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/tracking-a-mobile-device/1466):
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> [Tracking a Mobile Device](http://resources-area.co.uk/node-red-flows/tracking_a_mobile_device.pdf) The above link will take you to a copy of the tutorial sheet I've written for my 11 to 13-year-old students to Track a Mobile Device in their After-School IoT Club. Hope you find it useful. Regards from David.

Here's a direct link to the tutorial I wrote for my students.  
[http://resources-area.co.uk/node-red-flows/tracking\_a\_mobile\_device.pdf](http://resources-area.co.uk/node-red-flows/tracking_a_mobile_device.pdf)

**EDIT:**  
I've just seen in the tutorial the students used [www.cloudmqtt.com](http://www.cloudmqtt.com) as their broker.  
Not sure if that company still offers a free teir.  
[Beebotte](https://beebotte.com/plans) do offer a free plan for up 50k messages/day - so worth considering.

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