Summary

In this chapter, we explored how to develop a GPS-based tracking system using a global IoT SIM card and GPS module. We set up the Thing, which included cloud variable creation, device association, GSM network configuration, and coding a development board. Later, we created a dashboard to visualize the Thing readings with different types of widgets to display current readings, with the most important widget of the chapter being the Map widget. It is a very interesting and important widget to display the location of IoT devices using GPS coordinates.

GPS tracking is a very important aspect that we covered in this chapter, and it helps us to develop a device for our asset tracking, which will help us in asset tracking and monitoring. This chapter demonstrated how we can display the location of a device on the dashboard, which gives you the confidence to build more solutions regarding asset tracking. In the next chapter, we will explore another long-range communication technology...