I haven't followed this in awhile, but the geograhics lab at Bridgewater State University looks like there still doing this:
http://geolabvirtualmaps.com/ I they were using custom built equipment to do this, but were thinking of transitioning to off the shelf stuff the last time I talked to them. Mike On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Zachary McGibbon, Mr < [email protected]> wrote: > Last year there was some discussion on this list as per setting up Wifi > on Inter-Campus shuttle buses and here at McGill we were in the middle of > doing our tests for our 4 shuttle buses between our downtown and remote > campus. > > As of January this year, we now have Wifi on all four of the buses. We > are using a setup of: > > > - Aruba AP70 > - Bluetree BT-6801EB Modem (3G) > - Axis T8122 DC 30W Midspan (to power the AP) > - Oberon 1025-00 NMEA enclosure > > > We chose the Axis POE injector since the Aruba AP only has a 5v input and > we are running directly off the alternator of the bus which gives us 12vdc. > > One of the next parts of the project we would like to do is to add GPS > tracking to the bus so students would know how close the bus is (as it gets > quite cold here in Montreal during the winter!). Since there is a second > Ethernet port available on the AP70, we thought of using this for the GPS, > however I can’t find any Ethernet GPS’. > > Does anyone have any ideas of what we could use? I had thought about > getting a Garmin OEM GPS with a serial port output connected to a Lantronix > Serial to Ethernet box and sending back the NMEA strings to a server, > however I wanted to find an all included Ethernet solution and not have to > worry about powering and configuring two devices. > > Also, if we did use the OEM solution with NMEA strings, I’d have to find > some way of plotting these on a map (Google Maps would be preferable) and > this would probably require a lot of in house programming, or of course we > could just use APRS. > > Thanks > > Zachary McGibbon > Network Specialist / McGill NCS > Email: [email protected] > Office: (514) 398-7388 > > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
