webhaikal / tracker

Tracker project first for trains

Tracker

Tracker is to help developers to jumpstart developping anykind of mobility tracking applications.

Tracker lets any type or number of GPS devices to post their locations to a nodejs server through a ReST service.

This consists of several main modules

1. HTML5+AngularJS Front-end
2. NodeJS+MongoDB API for collecting and quering tracker data
3. Php+MySQL back-end to manage the trackers & etc.
4. Android app to push data to the API
5. Documentation

##Installation Guide

1. Clone the repo using

git clone https://github.com/scorelab/Tracker.git

2. Install node and mongodb.

3. cd to the mobility-track-nodejs folder. Do an npm install. It will install all the pakages.

cd mobility-track-nodejs

npm install

4. Run mongodb. Default path is set to /data/db ( On Windows this would be C:\data\db). You can change it when you are running.

5. Install grunt-cli with

npm install -g grunt-cli

6. Now run grunt, it will start the node server and listen to port 3000.

grunt