BlueBrother Project
This is the description of one of the winning projects of Hack Bristol by the guys who made it -- Josh Fyne, Simon Krige, Chris Jackson, Tom Hinton & Luke Lanyon-Hogg. To run the application, see the link below.
BlueBrother is a Bluetooth based tracking system. It
is highly scalable and can provide live updates of a persons location
whenever they are within range of one of the systems sensors.
The
system uses a central server and any number of sensor machines. All
that is required for the sensor machines is Linux, Python and a
Bluetooth dongle. The sensor machines then scan around every 15 seconds
for mobile Bluetooth devices and submit the name and signal strength of
each device to the central server using the http protocol.
The central server is running a simple web server written in Java
which gathers all submitted data to a mysql database. An apache web
server on the central machine then provides a PHP interface for the
database where users can search for the location of any device that has
been spotted. Devices can be registered with the system which enables
the database to be searched with the real name of a person to see where
they are.
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Instructions: Download the hack here and follow the instructions in readme.txt. By downloading the software, you agree we aren't liable if it breaks your computer (although this seems highly unlikely).
