Hi. I found this nice tutorial on creating Gmaps enabled GPS Tracker using Arduino and decided to use this system in my school project.
On that tutorial, the parts needed for project are bit expensive for me. I am from India and with shipping charges all the parts will cost about 130 USD. I am student and I cannot afford that much. By finding on web, I found this Arduino shield which is based on SIM908 and is comparatively cheap.
Ps. there are some description files of the shield I found on eBay. Kindly take a look and tell me will it work with the code of tutorial or not.
Can anyone please suggest me that the code and other resources provided in tutorial will work with this shield or not? I am new to electronics and do not have any wider knowledge on all this. Kindly help me with this one.
probably... as cards looks similar.
Pin definitions/use may differ. U need datasheet for both cards to be able to alter the code to match.
Check datasheets first.
(I've seen the documentation.. I would think twice...)
Sir, as I said I am not good in electronics and does not have that much knowledge. Can you please tell me if that code will work with the shield I mentioned or I should buy the shield which is mentioned in the tutorial?
I can not...
Both are shields, which means they connect to preselected pins on your Arduino.
If those boards differ, all software have to be changed to use correct pins for that second shield.
It might even be better with a 'standalone' GPS an a GPRS-phone (connections to arduino by wires)
(costs may be lower)
I have used this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIM900-GPRS-GSM-Shield-Board-Quad-Band-Kit-For-Arduino-Compatible-High-Quality-/281661236884?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4194516694
(it can be easily converted to a shield if adding connector pins)
and an Ublox NEO-6M GPS.
..........
I'm sorry this don't help you much. I do not have code for sending GPRS data to remote server.
knut_ny:
I'm sorry this don't help you much. I do not have code for sending GPRS data to remote server.
Thanks for reply. Actually I had SIM900 based module and successfully connected it to Arduino but I am also having the same problem, I do not have code for sending the data over GPRS to remote server. In the cooking-hack's tutorial << http://www.cooking-hacks.com/projects/arduino-realtime-gps-gprs-vehicle-tracking >> they provided code for uploading the data to server using HTTP but in that project they have used SIM908 based module. That's where I am confused, they are providing the SIM908 shield for about 150 Euros (including shipping). As I mentioned before shield with same SIM908 module is available on eBay for lower price but I am confused that will the cooking-hack tutorials code will work with that shield or not. It will be great if I just get suggestion about which shield should I buy.
