Intelligent devices are becoming an ever more important and ubiquitous part of our everyday lives. Mobile phones represented the first wave of smaller personal computers. And now, as the price of electronics and processing power continues to fall, there is an intersection between sensors and other electromechanical devices and computers that live on the edge of the Internet: close to the source of the data, processing the data locally and sending just what is required to other computers to consume. This wave of machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, or more broadly, the Internet of Things (IoT), is rapidly shaping the future of computing. Oracle Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) provides Java developers with a direct path to this new market space by using their existing knowledge and skills.
In this tutorial, you create a Java ME Embedded 8 Early Access (EA) application that communicates with a GPS device. The device provides accurate positioning by using global positioning satellites. You use a MediaTek MT3339 chipset, which was designed for small, hand-held and mobile GPS applications. The chip is soldered on a breakout board that includes supporting components to make it compatible with the Raspberry Pi.
Release Date: 12-Dec-13
Duration: 60 minutes
Credited To: Tom McGinn
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