Posting data to the "internet" with GPRS

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Hi all,

I was contacted by a friend to make a device for him. What he needs is as follows.

  1. Collect sensor data and write them on a SD card.
  2. Upload them to some service via GPRS because the device is fixed on a vehicle so WiFi is not an option
  3. Then he should be able to view those data from logging in to that service.

I hope to use a SIM808 module with an Arduino. I have a good background knowledge in programming but this is my first iOT project. Please give me some advice/ideas to make this work.

I saw a service called https://thingspeak.com
Would that work for my need?

Please let me know your ideas.

Thank you very much.

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I say starting working on it..

and get the following working first:

  • Get sensor data

  • Write sensor data to external SD card

  • Read desired data/collection of data from SD card

At this point you have 85% of the project done..

I cant comment on how to use a GPRS shield to contact an IoT endpoint...

The end point you use to send your data to doesnt matter.. you can use your own web server with a PHP scrip..

a free IoT cloud service (like you linked to)... or whatever you want....

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xl97:
I say starting working on it..

and get the following working first:

  • Get sensor data

  • Write sensor data to external SD card

  • Read desired data/collection of data from SD card

At this point you have 85% of the project done..

Thank you very much for the inspiration. I started working on this. So far so good.

I managed to write the sensor data to a file and average them and write them to a different folder after a certain period as the client wanted.

Now I have to worry about this iOT part.