VeSimulator A Location-Based Vehicle Simulator Model for IoT Applications

Location-based services (LBS) are important aspects in today business models where a lot of use cases are built around the identification of user location such as the advertisements, asset tracking, geo-fence, and a lot of different things that utilize such location information. With the maturity of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology many different devices are shipped with built-in GPS unit, this enables the Internet of Things (IoT) application to utilize this location information and build many location-based business models including health, transportation, marketing and social services. Smart transportation is one of these important IoT applications in which LBS play a major role. In this research we built a location-based simulator model that can be used in developing internet of things applications. The research focused on developing a generic simulator model that can be customized according to the used application, so we can develop IoT location-based application without the need to have hardware components in early research phases. We built a train simulator and tested it against a railway control system. This simulator achieved good results in simulating the behavior of a moving train using different testing scenarios.