looking for gprs / gps hardware designer

[mattpease]

gprs gps hardware

Hello All -

We are a small startup company in San Francisco developing our own
vehicle location service. We need to buy or build a consumer device which can send specialized low-level GPS data to us via GPRS or some other US based cell protocol.

We're looking for any advice you may have about getting started with a
hardware project like this.

Are there GPRS / GPS / microcontroller combo boards that we could just reprogram?

Barring that, can anyone recommend a hardware contractor with experience designing devices to run on a carrier network?

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thank you-
Matt

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Parking Hero, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Matthew Pease
Founder
matt@parkinghero.com

 

[brmadhukar]

I had been using GPS + GSM (wavecom) board for this. You basically need to decode the NMEA or the binary messages from the GPS Rx and convert it to the SMS format and send it to the Modem.
You get boards from all major GPS vendors -- SiRF, u-trax, ....

All you need is to handle the RS232 interface and PIC programming.

Hope this helps.

BRM