Ive been thinking about buses and wifi. Bus riders want to know where the bus is. If there were an access point at each bus stop, the bus could simply ping each bus stop. The bus stops AP is mapped to a location, so the system would then know the last bus stop the bus left and be able to tell the user. But the bus needs something to ping with...
This requires a device I havent seen beforea wifi signaler/receiver. Its like a GPS Receiver but instead its a Wifi Receiver. Im imagining a very small device running on a watch battery that does nothing but connect to a network and ping a central server. If the access point is associated with a physical location, its as good as GPS (or close. Remember, GPS doesnt work so well with skyscrapers all around). It has the following configuration settings: 1. the name of the signaler (Bus 3333) 2. a list of access points to try to connect to in order 3. a ping command This is not a signal detector and its not a USB client. Its just a little device that's constantly looking for networks to connect to and pinging outward. Does such a device exist now? Or is there a wifi signal finder that is built with hackable firmware to fulfill such a purpose? Rob __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
