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Real-time Indoor Positioning System
Plott is an open-source project written in JavaScript working to create a modular high accuracy indoor positioning system using WiFi fingerprinting. The goal of Plott is to create an API that is capable of tracking a targeted device within 1 foot of its actual location and easily integrate with existing JavaScript web mapping libraries via GeoJson. In addition to the technical goals of Plott, the project is being developed to preform geospatial analysis on K9 Nose Work training techniques.
Requires nodejs.
$ npm install plott
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Screen shot from original proof of concept
$ npm test
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Real-time Indoor Positioning System
We found that plott demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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