How do I retrieve the position data from a GPS Tracker Device

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Hi, I'm building a website about GPS tracker.
But I'm having difficulties to retrieve the position data (latitude & longitude) from the GPS Tracer device over the GPRS.
How does the tracker send the position data to the server?
Because I want to store it to the MySQL database.

Posted 13-Jan-14 16:14pm

Andrias Melianus Siwabessy

Updated 13-Jan-14 16:15pm

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Ron Beyer 13-Jan-14 22:17pm

How would we know? You don't even say what kind of GPS tracker it is, there is more than one I'm sure, we can't guess which one you are using. Maybe read the manual from the manufacturer?

Andrias Melianus Siwabessy 13-Jan-14 22:53pm

Dear Ron,
Thanks for your information.
I have read the manual. The manual says that we have to set some parameters like APN, DNS, Server, port.
I thought if we set the server and port to www.example.com:80, the tracker will execute an HTTP request like this:
www.example.com/?IMEI=xxx<=xxx&ln=xxx&time=xxx
So that it will easy to extract the position data and the other information. CMIIW.
I just figured it out that every GPS tracker type has different way to send data.

Well, for your information, the manual I'm reading, come from Neosmart T700.

Please advise.

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George Jonsson · Answer 1 · 2014-09-20T05:11:00

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You should most likely look into the NMEA standard. Most GPS devices out there should support that.

http://www.nmea.org/[^]
Wikipedia NMEA 0183[^]
NMEA Data[^]

Posted 20-Sep-14 5:11am

George Jonsson

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[no name] 20-Sep-14 11:31am

Öhö, my 5 for this starting points.

George Jonsson 20-Sep-14 11:59am

Thanks Bruno. I did something similar many years ago. At that time it took a while to get the spec as NMEA wants you to pay for it.