Abstract
Accurate and timely location data of vehicles in Smart Cities is an essential requirement for efficient Intelligent Transportation Systems. However, in mixed terrain environments, like the Holy City of Makkah, single localization mechanism becomes insufficient due to rocky hills, long tunnel, deep valleys and high-rise buildings. Due to the same reasons, Internet connectivity becomes disrupted on the move. As a result, accurate localization and subsequent update of location data on a remote server becomes cumbersome. In this paper, we present a hybrid localization and communication system (HYLOC) for vehicles in mixed terrain environments. HYLOC uses multiple localization techniques and communication mechanisms to localize and send location data 10 remote server in minimum lime. Reducing location data report lime al remote servers hosting geo-data processing application increases their efficiency and response lime. This paper shows how HYLOC improves localization and reduces reporting time using experiment and analysis.