Imagine taking that one step further... Say you have a truck with disaster recovery supplies. That truck is checked-in when it departs. An object is created for the truck and the truck's route is entered, then the object moves along that route at pre-determined speeds.
Something happens and disaster recovery supplies are suddenly needed at a different location. With a glance at the map, you can see approximately where the truck is and determine if it would be best to re-route that truck or to send another truck. The key to this would be the ability to create a route for an object to follow. The route would have to contain information such as speeds over the route and stops along the way. I can see other uses of this feature in APRS; APRS Dos has a limited version of this ability. -- William McKeehan KI4HDU http://mckeehan.homeip.net On Wed, February 27, 2008 2:39 pm, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > I had a similar idea. Mine was a two part system; one was a field > deployed unit with APRS, GPS, and RFID scanner to create objects. The > second was a server elsewhere on the net to take ownership of those > objects; the server would have database backing to provide more > information about the object/RFID tag. > > A unit in the field could scan an asset. the server would note the > scan, possibly take ownership of the object, and change its type and > comment field to indicate more info. For example, a truck, container, > or pallet pre-loaded with disaster recovery supplies would be entered > in the database. It would be scanned at deployment/dropoff and its > location marked with the APRS interface. > > > -Jason > kg4wsv > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
