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HANDY TOOL FOR IDENTIFICATION & TRACKING ON OPERATIONAL CANVASIdentification & tracking of objects, goods and people within any open or closedenvironment is a very important issue which has a number of applications such astracking of goods & people, toll collection & in disaster management. The same isequally important in the defense sector situations such as secure & rescue operationswhere identification & tracking of soldiers & equipment is imperative.HOCTAC is based on Zigbee networking technology; Zigbee is a specification for asuite of high level communication protocols using small, low power, cheap digital radiosbased on an IEEE 802 standard for personal area networks.In our scenario each participant of an operation will be equipped with unique ID basedZigbee device, some Zigbee devices called Cluster Heads will have GPS receivers toget location and external antennas to enhance transmission range up to maximum 1Km, other are end devices which will be communicating through the rest of networkthrough cluster heads. End devices won‘t be equipped with GPS and external antenna.On generation of Stimulus from a base station, all the devices will transmit theirresponse to the base station in multihop fashion, the response message will comprise of• Device EUI64 Unique Number (64 bytes)• Role in Network (Coordinator (Cluster Head) ,End Device)• Location Received by GPSAs stated before only Cluster Head devices will have GPS, so we will calculate the EndDevice Location with respect to its Signal Strength Drop from Cluster Head.On reception of response from all devices, base station will store all devices EUI64number along with its Location. EUI64 number is mapped to a specific personal recordfrom database, and is plotted on to GOOGLE MAP.Syndicate Members: Umair AliZain JavedMuhammad AwaisSupervisor:Dr Faisal Bashir47