Tetherless Computing Blog

EVDO StompBox Project

This is a really cool project that combines an EVDO connection with WiFi. The funny thing is that the all the difficulty is in hacking Linux to do what Mac OS X or even Windows XP does, for the most part, out of the box. The cool part is that with a little hacking, and leveraging the gods of Google, you can actually get real-time tracking of a car in a satellite map. This is like science fiction come to life! Lessons: 1. web-based services can give you huge leverage 2. EVDO works 3. if asset tracking with evdo can be done off-the-shelf for about $1000, do we need sensor networks?

posted by S. Keshav @ Thursday, April 21, 2005