/android_windSpeed

Android app for wind speed measurement parsing NMEA sentences via BlueTooth and long range radio

Primary LanguageJavaMIT LicenseMIT

WindSpeed Android App

Android Tool for on the fly windspeed measurement. It receives NMEA sentences over BlueTooth and shows wind speed data. The messages travel to a BT receiver through a long range serial radio pair.

Measurement are used for hot air ballon flights.

Current version is modified to collect data by a quadcopter and having the transmitter/GNSS module on the drone, lettign the drone drifting with the wind keeping altitude only each mat 100meters of altitude.

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The Original App used here for BT2.0 serial communication:

Serial Bluetooth Terminal app.

This Android app provides a line-oriented terminal / console for classic Bluetooth (2.x) devices implementing the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP)

For an overview on Android Bluetooth communication see Android Bluetooth Overview.

This App implements RFCOMM connection to the well-known SPP UUID 00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB