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Smart Internet of Things Projects

You're reading from   Smart Internet of Things Projects Discover how to build your own smart Internet of Things projects and bring a new degree of interconnectivity to your world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466518
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Agus Kurniawan Agus Kurniawan
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Making Your IoT Project Smart 2. Decision System for IoT Projects FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Your Own Machine Vision 4. Making Your Own Autonomous Car Robot 5. Building Voice Technology on IoT Projects 6. Building Data Science-based Cloud for IoT Projects Index

Working with a GPS module for navigation


GPS is module that receives a certain location from a satellite. GPS is a good method for finding a location when outdoors. Several GPS satellites can be used in the GPS module.

In this section, we will try to access a location from a GPS module. Location information obtained from the satellite will be sent to a computer through Bluetooth.

We will use the U-blox NEO-6M Module to retrieve the location from the satellite. We will use the same Bluetooth module, HC-06, in this demo. A computer will listen to the GPS data from a robot. The GPS data that are sent are latitude and longitude coordinates.

I obtained a U-blox NEO-6M from dx.com (http://www.dx.com/p/gps-module-w-ceramic-passive-antenna-for-raspberry-pi-arduino-red-384916). This module is cheap, and you can buy it on Banggood, eBay and AliExpress.

A form of U-blox NEO-6M module is shown in the following figure:

U-blox NEO-6M Module provides TTL output so we can access the data easily. GPS data from...

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