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Kuet student develops tracking software
Inventor of the software, Mohammod Momtazur Rahman Niloy, right, along with his mentor Narottom Kumar Roy
Mohammod Momtazur Rahman a.k.a Niloy, a fourth year student at electrical and electronic engineering department of Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (Kuet) has developed a software through which any individual's motion and location through his cell phone can be measured accurately. A press release issued by Kuet said security services, especially the intelligence agencies, can highly benefit from the software. The software has been developed using Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) using application programme interface. Niloy said collecting data through Global Packet Radio Service or GPRS mainly identifies the location of an individual. The software also provides location details such as latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, course and distance. Recently, some particular areas of Khulna city were selected for the project. I got positive result out of it. It is possible to identify any location from the whole country in future with the active development of the software, he claimed. Niloy has developed a digital map of Kuet and its adjoining areas along with a database to test his software. "This project is of international standard. Its active development can help a lot, particularly the security and intelligence department to identify and catch criminals," said Narottom Kumar Roy who is a Lecturer of the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering of Kuet. "I am looking for developing this software more to retrieve the exact name of location. The Jave location API is a very powerful and handy thing to retrieve location," Momtazur Rahman said.
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