ECE497 Project GPS Tracker

Team members: Robert Fendricks, Chris Hopwood

Grading Template
I'm using the following template to grade. Each slot is 10 points. 0 = Missing, 5=OK, 10=Wow!

 00 Executive Summary 00 Installation Instructions 00 User Instructions 00 Highlights 00 Theory of Operation 00 Work Breakdown 00 Future Work 00 Conclusions 00 Demo 00 Late Comments: I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Score: 10/100

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Executive Summary
Chris Hopwood and Robert Fendricks will be working on a way to interface the Beaglebone Black with a GPS tracker using UART. We plan on using this data to track the Bone's location on a map via a web interface.

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Work Breakdown
We first attempted to connect to the Beaglebone via the included FTDI cable. Here is a link to the FTDI cable's ref. sheet: http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/Cables/DS_TTL-232R_CABLES.pdf. To connect the

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GPS
The GPS we are using is MTK3339

To load the device tree overlay on the beaglebone:  root@beaglebone# echo BB-UART4 > /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.*/slots  This will connect UART4-rx onto P9_11.

To find which tty the UART is exposed as, run: root@beaglebone# dmesg | tail On our beagle it outputted:  [  50.991396] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.8: slot #8: 'Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART4' [  50.991495] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.8: slot #8: Requesting part number/version based 'BB-UART4-00A0.dtbo [  50.991514] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.8: slot #8: Requesting firmware 'BB-UART4-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version '00A0' [  50.991542] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.8: slot #8: dtbo 'BB-UART4-00A0.dtbo' loaded; converting to live tree [  50.991860] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.8: slot #8: #2 overlays [  50.995484] 481a8000.serial: ttyO4 at MMIO 0x481a8000 (irq = 61) is a OMAP UART4 [  50.996082] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.8: slot #8: Applied #2 overlays. [  51.171271] [drm:output_poll_execute], [CONNECTOR:5:HDMI-A-1] status updated from 2 to 2 [  61.202485] [drm:output_poll_execute], [CONNECTOR:5:HDMI-A-1] status updated from 2 to 2 [  71.233751] [drm:output_poll_execute], [CONNECTOR:5:HDMI-A-1] status updated from 2 to 2



According to [  50.995484] 481a8000.serial: ttyO4 at MMIO 0x481a8000 (irq = 61) is a OMAP UART4 our port is mapped to ttyO4.

To test if the GPS is connected correctly, run:  root@beaglebone# screen /dev/ttyO4 9200  replacing ttyO4 with whatever device dmesg reported earlier.

To disconnect from the screen session correctly, press + +<:>, then type ":quit"

Google Maps Webpage
We used Google Maps in Javascript to interface with the Beaglebone Black and display our GPS information.

Robert started work on this, first using Dr. Yoder's Boneserver script to create a simple server. A new webpage was added that just had map on it. Google provides free documentation for their API, and it turns out it's fairly straight forward to use. One of the many features that Google offers with this API is the ability to draw on the map, such as placing markers and drawing lines. By using the marker class in conjunction with actionlisteners, I was able to create a button that would place a marker on coordinates specified by the user. The next step will be to have a script that will read from a file and place markers or lines on the map given a time range.

Future Work
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Useful Links
Server Side Events info: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/

GPS Ref. Sheet: http://learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/adafruit-ultimate-gps.pdf

GPS NMEA Sentences: http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm