AIS NB Cellular tower logger

This mini-project is for test using DEVIO NB-SHIELD I and AIS NB-IoT network by logging cellular information with the GPS coordinate.

You can read the full article about this mini-project at Article "รีวิว DEVIO NB-Shield I และ Mini-project: Cellular Tower logger ".

Device_code

This is a code for programming device to transmite data (including Cellular tower ID and GPS coordinate) to the server.

Hardware

• Arduino Uno
• DEVIO NB-SHIELD I
• GlobalTop FGPMMOPA6C GPS Standalone Module or GPS Standalone Module with NMEA sentence Serial interface.

Pinout

GPS	Arduino
GND	GND
VCC	5V
TxD	11 (MOSI)
RxD	12 (MISO)

For DEVIO NB-SHIELD I, you can just stack up with Arduino Uno or Other pin-compatible microcontroller board.

Please avoid using pin 8 and 9, because they were used by DEVIO NB-SHIELD I via AltSoftSerial library to interface with Arduino.

However, if you really want to change TxD and RxD port, please check NeoSWSerial document to check the support pins. And, don't forget pin number in the line #21.

Setup

• Install Arduino
• Install following library:
  • AIS_NB_BC95. (This is forked version from AIS-DeviceInnovation to enable get Cellular tower information.)
  • NeoSWSerial. (This is for GPS serial interface)
• Change the following variables in Device_code.ino:
  • <UDP_SERVER_IP> Your UDP Public-accessible server IP address.
  • <UDP_SERVER_PORT> Your UDP Public-accessible server port.
• Compile and upload the code to your Arduino Uno.

You can monitor/debug via USB Serial at 9600 baud.

Server

For a simeple UDP server, you can use UDPserver.py as a server script to receive data from the device and save data to Firebase's firestore.

processFile.py is for process raw data from Firebase's firestore to processed data for displaying on the map.

Installation

• Install Python 3.4+
• Run the following command:

pip install asyncio firebase_admin

• Get Firebase's firestore credential JSON file. and rename to firebase-credential.json and place at the same folder that UDPserver.py placed.
• If you don't want to use port 8005 as your UDP port, set PORT environment variable.

Usage

UDP server

python UDPServer.py

Processing to JSON file

python processFile.py | tee <JSON File name>.json

Display

Just a static file to display a map from the observation. :/

Installation

• Get Google map API key and change YOUR_API_KEY to your API key.
• Place result.json (JSON file processed with processFile.py) at the same folder that processFile.py live
• Just open processFile.py

Disclaimer

This mini-project is an independent project. Neither funded nor cooperate with ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PLC.