You could always contact Blirpit, which was developed here at UVM (where
is it also very cold in the winter!)
To fine-tune your time managment skills you can use the Bus Line
Information Retrieval Program, or Blurpit <https://uvm.blirpit.com/>,
a locally invented transportation-tracking service which allows
students to track on- and off-campus buses in an attempt to increase
efficiency and reduce waiting time at bus stops, both online and
through their mobile phone! Find out where your bus is in 'real-time'
and avoid standing outside in the blustery Burlington winters!
www.blirpit.com
Lynne Meeks
University of Vermont
On 2/1/2012 11:56 AM, Dale W. Carder wrote:
Thus spake Zachary McGibbon, Mr ([email protected]) on Wed, Feb 01,
2012 at 04:27:37PM +0000:
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.
This sounds like a perfect application for an Arduino connected to a
Parallax GPS. http://arduino.cc/playground/Tutorials/GPS
Maybe you could find some electrical engineering students to build it as
a project :-)
Otherwise, as you mention something based on APRS could work too.
Dale
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