Article: 15697 of sci.geo.satellite-nav From: see.my.sig@bigpond.com (Noel Bachelor) Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Re: GPS Indoors? Organization: Language Recordings Inc. (Darwin, Australia) Reply-To: Noel Bachelor Message-ID: <3c73a822.614447023@news.bigpond.com> References: <7ahr6ug2qeq5mfdle6chf4mo0v4i1gueaj@4ax.com> <2vkv6u8ii97lmblukkg1vstk71b1apk8oh@4ax.com> <82427uocl6v5lt3nst6m7kdeg5e6cnlvmt@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 34 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:31:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.134.84.36 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 1014298010 144.134.84.36 (Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:26:50 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:26:50 EST Path: news.meer.net!ord-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen.news.verio.net!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!newsfeeds.bigpond.com!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net sci.geo.satellite-nav:15697 On or about Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:39:08 -0500, Andrzej Jan Taramina allegedly wrote: > We've mounted a GPS device on a Radio Shack 4x4 RC (Radio Controlled) > truck. We have an embedded Java processor onboard and a wireless > connection to the net. We send position information to a back end > server (using Web Services technologies like SOAP and J2EE). We're > also working on two client apps (one web page based, the other classic > UI using Swing) that will display the location of the truck in real > time (and historically) on a moving map display along with some other > information. On interesting twist is that the client apps can > communicate in the other direction as well....and send commands to the > mobile truck (turn on a flashing light, siren and headlights for the > moment). Any possibility of having two trucks, one indoors and one outdoors, responding identically to the same control? The outside one would provide the positional data. You'd have to make sure it's in a clear space where it will not run into anything within the operational area of the inside one, which would probably not be a very large area anyway. A closed circuit TV could be used to monitor the outside one and to give the whole thing away (and probably impress the audience anyway with how you pulled off the 'magic') if you so choose. Noel Bachelor noelbachAT(From_domain) S 12.416980 E130.922680 Please direct all spam to: abuse@cia.gov abuse@fbi.gov spamcop@spamcop.net libadm@liberal.org.au chq@chq.liberal.org.au