Man Down Alarm with ESP8266, GPS Neo 6M, Lora E220-400T22D, and MPU6050

hello, i am high school student and i am newbie in microcontroller programming. I have some project that build man down alarm with ESP8266, GPS Neo 6M, Lora E220, and MPU6050.

The way this product works :
this product is divides into 2 types. One for the victim and another one for searcher. First we talk about product that intended doe victim. If the product is active and user doesnt do any movement and/or user make very large movements in a short period of time (ex:falling). it is will trigger man down state. the product will broadcast the coordinate of that product to all device nearby via lora in 433mhz. Another victim product that receive the lora signal will repeat the signal and trigger some alert like buzzer or led blink.

Then we talk about searcher product. this product broadcast its position to give another searcher information. If this product receive signal from victims device it will alert the user with buzzer or led and repeat this signal too (not change the signal value). this product make communication to the phone via esp access point (no internet connection). Esp will give victim and searchers longitude and latitude. Latitude and longitude will displayed on the phone in the form of an offline map

my questions :

  1. is this project possible?
  2. how to make communication between esp8266 and android via esp8266's wifi access point to send latitude and longitude
  3. How to make display of longitude and latitude in the form of an offline map in phone?
  4. What antennas are suitable for use if the place of use is in forests and mountains?
  5. Can someone tell me about the code in general way?

thank you so much for your answer :slightly_smiling_face:

When the person falls on top of your device, how will the signal be transmitted with the antenna covered by the body?

First step is to check what the regulations, restrictions and limitations are for radio are for your part of the World.

What your allowed to do can have a significant affect on the choice of devices, antennas and the distances the alarms would be capable of.

it is will be the worst case of this product. this case will decrease of the signal range. maybe i will make some SOP to use this product.

okay thanks, noted. i choose 433mhz because after research some information in google, this radio wave have larger range if compared with 900mhz and 2.4ghz

So where in the World are you ?

And yes, in general the lower the frequency the longer the range potential.

433 is only legal in ASIA, different in EU and NA.
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/frequencies-by-country/

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sorry, i am in indonesia (asia) right now

Then 433 is legal there but nowhere else.

This appears to be a fairly advanced project, what is your level of experience in hardware and software. An answer denominated in thousands of hours is expected.

Legal in the UK, possibly Europe too.

OK.

You still need to check how much transmit power you can use, that can vary too.

maybe under 100 hours. so far i have made some basic project like how to use OLED display, how to use rotary encoder, etc.

ok, thanks

And before you take the design of the product too far, once you have sorted out the frequency and power restrictions, its strongly recommended you go wandering with a couple of simple test nodes, a transmitter and a receiver.

What is important is the check that the range\distance you get, in the typical areas where its intended for use, is adequate.

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ok, Thanks for your intructions. i have question, is that possible if i am make this product repeat the received signal via line of code?

Argh, my teacher said this, my own link disagrees (I think)

Nope that correct.

868Mhz is almost universally used in Europe for LoRaWAN\TTN.

But that does not imply 433Mhz is not legal.

Not quite a single line of code, but its quite simple to repeat\relay a packet with a LoRa device.

You maybe should take a look at Meshtastic;

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/

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