I'm fairly new to OpenGTS (an excellent platform by the way!) and to socket programming / protocols, so really do need some help from each of you re: all the inputs I can get. Specifically, am struggling with the below questions - would you be able to chime in please!
I've been able to get OpenGTS working on my personal Mac but havent purchased a device yet. For now, I'm just pushing in random lat / long data to the mysql db and debugging my webpage. However, if I get a device, how would I go about sending data from it to my Mac mysql db? Understand we need a GSM connection and the SIM needs to be put into the device, but I'm not able to understand how would the data flow into my local machine's db.
I plan to productionize the usage of this system - what kind of server should I look at? Afraid I dont have web programming expertise but is something like the Amazon Cloud the right hosting server solution for OpenGTS? So essentially, I would need to install OpenGTS on the Amazon Cloud server, and my devices would then send data to it via GSM?
Thanks much for your inputs!
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The Flow is like bellow.
1. Install the SIM card in side the device.
2. Set all the configurations in the device(Ex: APN, IP Address and port number of your server, Data interval..etc)
3. Run the DCS server in your OpenGTS.
4. Write the data parsing logic inside the DCS Program.
Regards,
Madhu
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Hello,
I'm fairly new to OpenGTS (an excellent platform by the way!) and to socket programming / protocols, so really do need some help from each of you re: all the inputs I can get. Specifically, am struggling with the below questions - would you be able to chime in please!
I've been able to get OpenGTS working on my personal Mac but havent purchased a device yet. For now, I'm just pushing in random lat / long data to the mysql db and debugging my webpage. However, if I get a device, how would I go about sending data from it to my Mac mysql db? Understand we need a GSM connection and the SIM needs to be put into the device, but I'm not able to understand how would the data flow into my local machine's db.
I plan to productionize the usage of this system - what kind of server should I look at? Afraid I dont have web programming expertise but is something like the Amazon Cloud the right hosting server solution for OpenGTS? So essentially, I would need to install OpenGTS on the Amazon Cloud server, and my devices would then send data to it via GSM?
Thanks much for your inputs!
Hi Vikram,
The Flow is like bellow.
1. Install the SIM card in side the device.
2. Set all the configurations in the device(Ex: APN, IP Address and port number of your server, Data interval..etc)
3. Run the DCS server in your OpenGTS.
4. Write the data parsing logic inside the DCS Program.
Regards,
Madhu
Thanks much, Madhu!