How to Send Location to Raspberry Pi

[hayloiuy]

Hi guys,

I am trying to start a project where a user will wear a small transmitter and that transmitter will transmit a signal at a specific interval. Then based on the signal, Raspberry will determine the location of the person and save it in a file to be analyzed later to determine the path taken by the user.

In other words, I am trying to track someone's movement using Raspberry.

I have no electronics background. My questions are:
What transmitter is needed for the user? I have zero knowledge on this and it would be good if someone can point me in a direction.
Is there already such a project so that I can leverage the source code?

[FLYFISH TECHNOLOGIES]

Hi,

I am trying to start a project where a user will wear a small transmitter and that transmitter will transmit a signal at a specific interval.

What is the content of the signal ? Does it include location information or is just a "ping" signal ?

I have zero knowledge on this and it would be good if someone can point me in a direction.

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Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.

[RaTTuS]

in doors ?
out doors ?
how far from the RPI ?
wireless ?

use several RPi's and triangulate
or
use a gps module on the person

[hayloiuy]

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The exact elitist attitude that shuns lay men trying to learn programming.

I was thinking of using something simple to be wear on the user to track it's movement. So yeah, if a ping can determine a location, how can it be done?

[hayloiuy]

in doors ?
out doors ?
how far from the RPI ?
wireless ?

use several RPi's and triangulate
or
use a gps module on the person

Outdoors, the RPI will be tracking the movement of someone running around a basketball court. It will definitely has to be wireless.

I really really appreciate your advice.

[BMS Doug]

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The exact elitist attitude that shuns lay men trying to learn programming.

I was thinking of using something simple to be wear on the user to track it's movement. So yeah, if a ping can determine a location, how can it be done?

Ivan's comment was based on the information content of your query, you didn't give enough detail about what you want to do before stating that you know nothing about the subject. If you (as the author of the post) don't describe what you want to do then how can anyone give you advice on how to achieve it?

Ivan is often very helpful, provided you do basic research and describe the issue you wish to resolve.

[BMS Doug]

in doors ?
out doors ?
how far from the RPI ?
wireless ?

use several RPi's and triangulate
or
use a gps module on the person

Outdoors, the RPI will be tracking the movement of someone running around a basketball court. It will definitely has to be wireless.

I really really appreciate your advice.

for basketball court scale distances the GPS probably wouldn't be accurate enough, but you should be able to do something with an array of receivers and triangulate from that.

[Douglas6]

Perhaps this project will give you some ideas: https://learn.adafruit.com/gps-logging- ... s/overview

[ame]

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The exact elitist attitude that shuns lay men trying to learn programming.

It's more realistic than elitist. Please report on your learning progress every month. After a year you might have some prototype working, although I expect you'll give up before then.

I was thinking of using something simple to be wear on the user to track it's movement. So yeah, if a ping can determine a location, how can it be done?

Like this, for example:
http://coecsl.ece.illinois.edu/ge423/sp ... sonic.html

Or you could try it optically. Make the user wear a brightly coloured hat and use OpenCV to detect the coloured object in the view of the entire court.

[Cancelor]

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I took this to mean 'don't run before you can walk'

[BMS Doug]

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I took this to mean 'don't run before you can walk'

I took it to mean "you are asking for help with something but haven't described what you want to do. How can I provide help if you don't define what you want help with?"