Monitoring System for Detecting Mobile Theft

In today's fast world, mobile phones become very import for every human being. But almost everyone might have experienced with misplacing or losing of their mobile phones. So, the security of mobile phones are becomes more challenging one. To detect and monitoring of thefted or misplaced mobile phones, this paper develops an unique and efficient android application. The features of this technique are quite different from the existing tracker applications which would be helpful in tracing the lost mobile phones without the help of any protecting agency. The tracking application has the capability of SIM card detection, call monitoring, image capturing etc based on some predefined SMS. 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 receive notification via SMS to a predefined number. Some specified formatted messages can be used to control the thefted mobile phone.