- Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:16 pm
#138700
Hi, I'm a new visitor to this board, which I found because I'm trying to do some research for a product prototype that would require GPS integration. Seemed like there's some good info flowing around here, so I thought I'd raise my hand with a question. The product I'm looking to build needs gps capability, but only in a very limited way. Its basically a remote weather station that someone will set out in the woods. It only needs to look it's location up once each time it's set, and it will remain in the same location for many hours or even many days at a time. Most of the gps chips I've been reading about are touted for their accuracy, which is good (pinpoint accuracy is important for this product). But that accuracy is generally framed in terms of accuracy while moving, which is unnecessary for this product, and therefore it seems like advanced chips would be unnecessarily costly. Does anyone have a recommendation for the least expensive GPS chip set needed to take an accurate location reading once (taking as long as it needs to to do so)? Note that the product would often be located in forests, so it should pickup eventually under tree cover. Thanks in advance for any help!