Connect to a GPS device and easily read and ingest its location-based information with IOTech’s highly reliable GPS device connectorr
What is GPS?
- GPS (Global Positioning System) is a satellite-based navigation system operated by the United States government. It provides location, velocity, and time synchronization data for air, sea, and land travel
- GPS does not require the user to transmit any data and operates independently of any cell or network coverage
- GPS is free-to-use and has become the de-facto tracking/positioning service. It is used by over 1 billion devices worldwide
- Edge IoT use cases for GPS include asset monitoring, transportation, fleet management, and healthcare. Information provided usually includes time, date, track, climb, altitude, speed, latitude, and longitude.
- A device with a GPS receiver runs a local GPS module that accesses the satellite-based information. Edge Gateways and Servers usually operate a GPS daemon to manage the GPS module
- Most GPS modules utilize the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) specification that defines a standard format for GPS data
IOTech's GPS device connector supports the timely collection of key positional and navigational information provided by standard GPS or NMEA devices
The GPS device connector requires connection to a GPS daemon and implements the following key features:
- Connection to either a local or remote GPS daemon (gpsd)
- Support for connecting to the GPS daemon in both polling and non-polling modes
- Pre-configured support for reading the following data from the GPS daemon:
- Time
- Date
- Degrees from true north
- Speed of climb
- Vertical positioning
- Speed of travel
- Latitude
- Longitude
- Support for String and Float64 data relating to the above data