Shirin Salim, Dipina Damodaran B and Surekha Marium Vargese
M A College of Engineering, India

In today’s fast world, mobile has become one of the important commodities of a human being. It has become a necessity rather than a luxurious commodity. The Mobile Tracking helps to track the current location of the mobile. The security of the devices powered with this is most challenging problem existing now. Almost everyone might have experienced misplacing or losing their mobile phones. Hence, it is necessary to create an app in all smart phones to detecting thefted phone. This paper discuss a tracking application including SIM detection, call monitoring, image capture, contact capture, profile switching etc for thefted mobile phone. These features are quite different from the existing tracker applications which would be helpful in tracing the lost mobilewithout the help of any protecting agency. The application installed will be running in the background and won’t be shown in the task manager as well. Once the mobile phone is lost, this application enables the user to track a mobile device and to receivenotification via SMS to a predefined number. Some specified formatted messages can be used to control the thefted mobile phone.

Mobile Tracking, GSM, GPS.