I need a GPS for my senior design. There are a few constraints:

1) Must be headless
2) Must contain USB (mandatory) and Bluetooth (preferred) interfaces
3) Must accept an external antenna

This is for a project, we have a budget of $1000. For our project we need to be able to get accurate location coordinates while indoors, specifically in EB2. Our cheaper GPS that one of our members had already owned just didn't cut it indoors. Secondly, we need the GPS to have an interface so we can dump the data onto a laptop. That part should be fairly trivial.

We also need a powered external antenna. Tech Talk always comes through, thanks in advance.

matt

10/3/2008 3:45:47 PM

You thought about renting a Trimble GPS from Duncan Parnell? Rental comes with Pathfinder office and cradle to get the data onto your computer. Not sure about the whole antenna thing or exactly what you need but it's an idea nonetheless. Call their GPS division in Morrisville.

10/3/2008 3:50:12 PM

You can't get a GPS signal indoors.

10/3/2008 4:46:40 PM

how do expect to get the gps signal inside of eb2 - are you going to run the external antenna outside?

if it must work inside only for demo purposes and no other reason - you can just simulate the data while indoors and use real gps data outside

10/3/2008 4:55:17 PM

you will not get GPS signal indoors

10/3/2008 4:59:56 PM

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"you will not get GPS signal indoors"

10/3/2008 5:25:23 PM

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"3) Must accept an external antenna"

I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

10/3/2008 5:52:08 PM

You know you can get a GPS antenna for a laptop with software for about $70-100 without knowing what you want to use it for that is the cheapest easiest way to do it, and you will never get a signal indoors

10/3/2008 8:54:15 PM

http://www.rosum.com/

10/3/2008 8:58:23 PM

^Would be interesting to see why they chose tv signal over cell phone

10/4/2008 12:41:10 AM

because they needed a broadcasting source that was broadcasting the same thing from multiple places

10/4/2008 1:45:00 PM

the college of natural resources has Trimble GeoXT's, they're like $4k.........they only thing they lack is bluetooth

possibly you could just check one out??

10/6/2008 12:03:59 AM