[Xastir] An idea rfid > APRS?

[William McKeehan]

Imagine taking that one step further...

Say you have a truck with disaster recovery supplies. That truck is checked-in
when it departs. An object is created for the truck and the truck's route is
entered, then the object moves along that route at pre-determined speeds.

Something happens and disaster recovery supplies are suddenly needed at a
different location. With a glance at the map, you can see approximately where
the truck is and determine if it would be best to re-route that truck or to
send another truck.

The key to this would be the ability to create a route for an object to
follow. The route would have to contain information such as speeds over the
route and stops along the way. I can see other uses of this feature in APRS;
APRS Dos has a limited version of this ability.
-- 
William McKeehan
KI4HDU
http://mckeehan.homeip.net

On Wed, February 27, 2008 2:39 pm, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
> I had a similar idea.  Mine was a two part system; one was a field
> deployed unit with APRS, GPS, and RFID scanner to create objects.  The
> second was a server elsewhere on the net to take ownership of those
> objects; the server would have database backing to provide more
> information about the object/RFID tag.
>
> A unit in the field could scan an asset.  the server would note the
> scan, possibly take ownership of the object, and change its type and
> comment field to indicate more info.  For example, a truck, container,
> or pallet pre-loaded with disaster recovery supplies would be entered
> in the database.  It would be scanned at deployment/dropoff and its
> location marked with the APRS interface.
>
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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