Open-ended projects

We encourage you to build on top of the knowledge you accumulated in this course and contribute to the community by tagging Nordic Semiconductor on social media (Twitter) or submitting it through the submit assignment button below.

Simple Tracker Enhancements

Some ideas:

  • Assisted GPS A-GPS enables a faster time-to-first-fix (TTFF) for the GPS modem. Use A-GPS to improve your tracker time-to-first-fix.
  • Predicted GPS (P-GPS) provides up to two weeks of predicted assistance data to the device. It enables a faster time-to-first-fix (TTFF) for the GPS modem. It also offers power saving by reducing the frequency of requesting new assistance data. Use P-GPS to improve your tracker time-to-first-fix and reduce its power consumption.
  • Make your tracker work indoors. GPS does not work inside the building as it is impossible to get a GPS signal indoors. Modify the code to trigger Cell-Based location services when the GPS modem fails to get a fix. You could use either Single-Cell LTE Location(SCELL) which gets the location of the closest cell to the tracker (accuracy 1000m) or Multi-Cell LTE Location(MCELL) which searches for all nearby cells to the tracker and triangulates it (accuracy 300m)
  • Control the frequency of tracking remotely through CoAP. Create another CoAP resource on the server and program your nRF9160 DK or Thingy:91 to observe this resource and update the tracking frequency accordingly.
  • YOUR IDEA!

We have several samples in our SDK that show you how to use A-GPS, P-GPS, SCELL , and MCELL

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