What is the best server side solution for a real-time GPS tracking system

handyman_hank

Well, I tried to ask this question as a comment on this question, but I thought that maybe no one will notice it, so I decided to ask it as a separate one. The question is about how to do real-time GPS tracking system things; if we have the following scenario: Rather than connecting a GPS receiver to a PC, the user will have a mobile device with an integrated GPS receiver. Location data will be sent over mobile network using GPRS data connection...

Originally asked by Ayman on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

For me there is a technical limitation/risk here -> the mobile device, and its connectivity. 1) What are your requirements? Do you need to support various mobile devices or will you focus on only one platform ? 2) More importantly, you have to understand that GPRS data connections differ from a PC connected to the Internet. There are various connection restrictions imposed by different mobile operators. If I was to design such a system in order to minimise those risks I would go with a web server running on port 80 which the mobile devices would upload their Long/Lat through POST (or even GET to simplify things). EDIT: Regarding scalability, it would be very easy to scale things up in the...

Full answer by Iraklis: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/2528878 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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