On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun289@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Manokaran K <manokaran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting idea. A system that uses an RFID sensor installed in busand
shelters can sense the arrival of buses (fitted with RFID transmitters)
appropriately update its bus location database. But I think it would beRFIDs are generically very shot range. For it to cover the distance between
much
more complex and the location information will be of a lesser resolution
than a GPS!
the bus and the bus shelter (especially considering the drivers stopping
the
bus at will) you might require some exotic variant which might be costlier
than a GPS+GPRS solution. Effectively a smart phone with GPS is enough to
act the server in the bus.