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USING TTNMAPPER ON ANDROID

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Posted on Oct. 9, 2016


Beginner
1 Hour

Introduction

Download the app

Link a device

Mapping

Experiment mode

The result

Introduction


TTNmapper (http://www.ttnmapper.org/) is a great tool to measure network coverage. Since many nodes do not have any possibility to be location-aware, you need to use a clever trick to be able to use every possible node for performing measurements. TTNmapper does.

The basic idea is that your smartphone and a node that was selected in the smartphone app are both close each other. This allows TTNmapper to measure the node's signal strength and combine this with the smart phone's location. It's available for both android and iOS. This recipe shows how to setup the android version.

Special thanks goes to jpmeijers who is the creator of the tool!