One of the network engineers I work with came up with this link for promising GPS products.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=157&ra=true It does not show any products for Canada - English, though. Canada French is not even an option to select. :( Bruce Osborne Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY 40 Years of Training Champions for Christ: 1971-2011 From: Zachary McGibbon, Mr [mailto:zachary.mcgib...@mcgill.ca] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Inter-Campus Wifi & GPS Tracking We don't' seem to have any issues with the bus turning on and off, I was worried that maybe one day the Aruba might lose its config (as I've seen them do that sometimes). As for environmental, we had thought about putting in a thermostat to turn on the power only when a certain temp was reached, but we decided to just have it power up when the bus starts. So far this winter it hasn't been very cold, but if it does get cold we'll see how the equipment reacts. The housing we're using also should make sure that the equipment warms up pretty quickly. Some pictures of our enclosures are on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/McGill-University-Wi-Fi/130266517039196 Zachary McGibbon Network Specialist / McGill NCS Email: zachary.mcgib...@mcgill.ca<mailto:zachary.mcgib...@mcgill.ca> Office: (514) 398-7388 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]<mailto:[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]> On Behalf Of Peter P Morrissey Sent: February-01-12 1:11 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Inter-Campus Wifi & GPS Tracking Sweet! It seems like one challenge would be the devices would constantly be resetting every time the bus stops running if you are powered directly off the alternator? Has that caused any issues? On top of that it seems like you would be dealing with some environmental extremes that you wouldn't normally have depending upon how it is all housed. Pete M. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]<mailto:[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]> On Behalf Of Zachary McGibbon, Mr Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:28 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Inter-Campus Wifi & GPS Tracking 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: zachary.mcgib...@mcgill.ca<mailto:zachary.mcgib...@mcgill.ca> 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/. ********** 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/.
