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Wireless PDA hotspot locator

  • 03-06-2004 2:57pm
    #1
    pbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭


    Have to do a final year project and decided to develope a PDA application that details the current location of a PDA by utilising the wireless hotspots in the area.

    However, this is all new knew to me! How can i extract the networking info emitted from the hotspot!

    Any general help would be well appreciated!


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  • #2
    Jaden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Jaden


    Google "Netstumbler" and "Ministumbler"


  • #3
    flywheel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭flywheel


    Originally posted by pbarry
    However, this is all new knew to me! How can i extract the networking info emitted from the hotspot!

    WiFiFoFum is a nice app for Pocket PCs running Windows Mobile 2003 including a rudimentary 'radar' display using RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) values - might be worth seeing if the developer is up to giving you some pointers

    wifi_radar_rssi.gif

    BrianG


  • #4
    Rew
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    http://www.placelab.org/

    Does exactly what your talking about.

    also:

    http://emhain.wit.ie/~p02ac03/cpinfo.html

    My 4th year proj docs. We wrote a system that locates a wireless device in a WLAN. 3 meter resolution with 70% accuracy.


  • #5
    flywheel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭flywheel


    Originally posted by Rew
    My 4th year proj docs.

    nice project...

    haven't looked up emhain in a good while - didn't realise there were any other WIT Applied Computing grads on boards - although i'd have been gone before you even started - now that i have to use two hands (only just mind!) to count how many years it's been since i left i feel old :ninja:

    BrianG


  • #6
    Rew
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    The proj was fun I got to follow an idea from conception to a working prototype. Havent done anything with it since though. More importantly got me an 86% and probably brought me up a grade in the end ;)

    Doing am MSc with TSSG now you would probably have been in college with some of the guys here id say?

    I think there are 1 or 2 other Applied Comp grads around but they dont show there faces to often.

    Are you getting the Alumni mags sent out to you, few grads mentioned in there i think....

    :)


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  • #7
    flywheel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭flywheel


    congrats on the result - yeah, was in the same year with a couple of them alright - even did my final year project with PaulM :)

    have been getting the alumni mags, they even invited me to a dinner they had up here in Dub last month, although when i saw Martin Cullen TD was the guest speaker I passed on it :ninja:

    BrianG


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