Project Code Name: Where is Waldo

• Project Started: May 2007
• Project Leaders: Justin Murray and Dean Pantages
• Project Details: The goal of this project is to design a fully autonomous, GPS based, dispatch and navigation system for the South Baldwin Vol. Fire Co. The software will all be written in Java, and will consist of a server and multiple client applications. The idea is that whenever the station is dispatched to a fire call, the server will interpret the call, notify the appropriate vehicles, and provide detailed directions to the scene (within an accuracy of 6 feet). Other features will include suggested equipment to bring along, real-time tracking of all of the station's vehicles, nearest fire hydrant location, and more that we have not thought of yet. After this project is completed, it could be expanded from our station to the entire borough, and then even to the entire district.
• Project Status: Currently in the early stages of development. Much of the client-server communication system has been established. Research in other areas has proven that the project is entirely feasible.
• Accomplished:
     - Remote Data communication between Server and Multiple Clients Simultaneously
     - Address Request and Transmission
     - Real Time GPS Tracking
• In Progress:
     - GPS NMEA sentence handler class
     - Entire Working list of client to server commands
     - Low Level Control of Computer Peripherals (ie: Mouse and Keyboard)
     - Point of Interest Grid Mapping of Test Deployment Boro
• Yet to Be worked on:
     - Remote transmission of GPS data from client to server
     - Remote Simultaneous Tracking of vehicles on server
     - Library Compilation of pertinent literature for remote access
     - Pictographic communicator
     - Autonomous Control of DeLorme Software