Dale beat me to it, as I was thinking of the exact same thing. With perhaps the downside being adding support complexity should it have an issue.
-----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dale W. Carder Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Inter-Campus Wifi & GPS Tracking 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 ********** 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/.
