dare2share - Tracking Software

This repository contains software which enables Bluetooth Low Energy tracking of umbrellas provided by the project dare2share to demonstrate the potential of sharing economy on campus.

This project is part of the scholarship programme TUM: Junge Akademie of the Technical University of Munich. This projected is supported by the TUM Universitatsstiftung.

Dependencies

This code is written in Python 2.7 and depends on the Linux Bluetooth stack BlueZ as it is expected to run on a Raspberry Pi Zero. The python interface used to access Bluetooth Low Energy is bluepy.

To install the required libraries run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install python-pip libglib2.0-dev
sudo pip install bluepy bitstring

Application

As this application requires access to the Bluetooth interface, it has to be started with root privileges. The main python file is located at src/ble_tracking.py. Assuming the working directory to be this repository's root directory, the application can be run with:

cd src
sudo python ./ble_tracking.py

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