receiving signals over wifi then map locations google map

[capstone]

Hello,

Student working on a senior design project and have some familiarity with LabVIEW through internships but have some questions.  I am attempting to send unique signals from fire hydrants that are currently being blocked by cars in a tow zones in a major city over Wi-Fi to a receiver (does NI have a product for this) that will then have push pins on a google map showing the current blocked hydrants. 
I have read the forums about Google Earth and LabVIEW functionality together, is there a way to recieve the signal and then map it through LabVIEW?

[MikeS81]

Hi capstone,

did you already start with somthing? You can use a PDA to insert your location coordinates and send this to your "server". There you can receive your signals and create your markings in google earth. To get more information about LV and google earth you can see this link

Hope it helps.

Mike

[Brinoceros]

Hi capstone,

This sounds similar to a product demonstration National Instruments did, tracking cyclists live on Google Maps. Check it out!

In this case a PDA was used (as Mike suggested) for acquiring data (including GPS), which was then sent to a remote server via a mobile broadband modem.  The server then updated Google Maps. 

The modem used was not a National Instruments product.  The only Wi-Fi product we currently provide is the NI WAP-37x1 industrial wireless access point, client, and bridge.  It is basically an industrial version of a common 802.11b/g wireless router.  This makes it useless for a communication range of an entire city, but could suffice to give a smaller scale demonstration.