Make Your Own GPS Tracker Using the AVR-IoT Cellular Mini

Welcome to the Lab!
See how Ross tracks his friends as they drive through town!

00:00 - Intro to the lab - GPS Tracker Demo
00:13 - Finding AVR-IoT Cellular Mini On-Boarding website
00:39 - AVR-IoT Cellular Mini documentation & code examples
01:47 - Project Assembly
02:27 - Arduino Sketch
05:37 - Programming the device
06:35 - Device startup and tracking location on map
07:09 - Cut to Grace and Josh on the road
08:18 - Install Webserver and get IP address
09:05 - Go to IP address in browser to view map
09:34 - Where to order parts to build this project yourself
10:33 - Tell us about what you make!

Parts used:

AVR-IoT Cellular Mini:
GPS FeatherWing:

AVR-IoT Cellular Mini Onboarding page:

AVR-IoT Cellular Mini Project Examples:

[davidhouseago]

A nice little project, the only problem is I just priced up the components and together they came out at over £80, excluding postage. I can buy a ready made one for a lot less!

[carlamerchan]

Hi, can we use another SIM card rather than the one from Truphone?

[ojumuiyinoluwa]

Thanks for this insight. Can you suggest any company that produces these devices at lower prices that i can buy from so that i can do business with them. Also the firm must have a solution for visualization

[pierpa_pierpaolo]

I would need something very small (size like a crown cap), which works the same way to be able to hide and easy to apply on cars, motorcycles, etc. If it was powered by a rechargeable battery with a mini solar panel that would be great. Waiting for info. Thank you very much.

[oithetresen]

is there a good way to add a motion sensor to this tu use as a silent alarm? maybe get a notification on a smartphone.

[ezypoliorz]

Wow that's such a nice project! I'd love to build it by myself, but I was wondering how can your board acces to the server? Don't you need to pay a cellular operator to access to the network, as you'd do with a phone?

[mazspork]

Very nice - How long before recharging?

[christinemurray]

I was looking into doing a DIY doggie tracker collar thing, but at those prices there are ready made commercial versions that would be a lot cheaper than just the SIM and GPS modules alone not including some microcontroller, battery, etc.

I wonder what could be made cheaper that would allow for real-time tracking connecting to mobile.

[hank_bloodshadow]

How much power does this use with this sketch? roughly.

[henrycheung]

I've been searching for a use-case for using the AVR DB-series' Multi-Voltage I/O (MVIO) that is unique to the DB-series, and this is a clever implementation of using that, the LTE-M module operated at 1.8V domain and it is seamlessly interfaced with the AVRDB chip via the MVIO port without the need for level shifter. Cool. 👍

[wellingtonalmeidaguiotti]

It's good to see Microchip using Open Source IDE to develop with your kits!
Do you have some example code to integrate it to fieldview software or similar software, or to integrate it with precision agriculture, software QGIS or similar? #Microchip

[ReadyToRunVMs]

Hello Nice video, i hace a questiinn, that boards needs sim card o wifi network?

[EngineeringPortalPractice]

can i use my own regular sim card that i can get anywhere or it will only work with the Truphone network sim card which seems to be an IoT sim card ?

[Se]

Can i use it in a specific facility?? ( small area )

[onilsonoliveira]

It's strange that the GPS antenna is facing when it should be facing up so that it can receive signals from satellites.

[asham]

Is it possible to recieve replies every 0.1 seconds as i am doing this for a project or even 0.05 second intervals is it possible ? I will be hooking it up to direct power source.

[LoranMaes]

Does this board need to be connected to internet to send those GPS updates to the webserver or can it be connected to a datasim so it can send realtime data as a standalone device?

[mohanprabhu]

This is cool project. Do you have module that is LTE Cat1 covering Band 2, 5, 12?

[stevenm]

Hello, Does the cellular board only support LTE-M? I’m in the UK, have purchased a board (& GPS) but haven’t managed to get it on to a network yet. I look forward to your reply. Thanks, Steve

[jeremyyounger]

Can I setup a geolocation ie home and when the device is out of the location sends an sms to a number?