Is there a way to track jetson nano board using gps?

Question

I am doing a project where I have to install the jetson nano board to a train and detect the gps location of it. But I cannot find a proper solution to include gps module to the jetson board. Please it would be great if there is anyone who can help me with it. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

So from what I know exactly the best way to do so would be to get an actual gps module for the jetson nano (do not know which exact model but I think we can go with the popular 4g model) and an example of one is https://www.waveshare.com/sim7600g-h-4g-for-jetson-nano.htm but you can also do something that isn't so accurate. Little bash script, hope it helps.

So first I would ssh into your device, you can run ifconfig to get a little bit of an idea. It by default would be wlan0 for the wirless module and eth0 for the wired connection. Let's make the file

touch nanoloc.sh && sudo chmod +x nanoloc.sh

Then just run this little script here:

#!/bin/bash 
#define what shell we want to use above
format="json" #xml or json
user="" #add your current user
nano_ip="$(curl ifconfig.co)"
ip_locaddr=https://freegeoip.app/$format/$nano_ip
data_file=/mnt/c/Users/$user/output.$format #change this to your expected path
touch data_file #make the file
echo data_file #make sure we have the right one
curl "$ip_locaddr" > data_file #write it out
cat data_file #let's see what it says

Now you should be able to see what it outputs when you run ./nanoloc.sh

Hope this helps, also am running this from WSL (you can see from the path where it's mounted) and tested on Linux.