Hello,
Thanks for stopping by. I placed this in Work and Education, because, well I need some suggestions for something we are trying to achieve at work. We have several carts of Chromebooks throughout our buildings. We are trying to find a way to easily locate where the cart itself is, without relaying on others to tell us. What we are looking for is something that has the ability to be tracked via WiFi to give us the location of the Access Point it is connected to (or something similar). We had the idea of throwing a Raspberry Pi in there, but we will run into an issue with power when the cart is unplugged from the charging ports to be moved from room to room. We were thinking of using a Raspberry Pi and some sort of backup battery for the short location changes in the building. The budget remains unnamed, but within reason. Keep in mind, we will not be using the Chromebooks themselves to locate the cart. The piece of equipment will be placed within the cart, out of reach. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for stopping by. I placed this in Work and Education, because, well I need some suggestions for something we are trying to achieve at work. We have several carts of Chromebooks throughout our buildings. We are trying to find a way to easily locate where the cart itself is, without relaying on others to tell us. What we are looking for is something that has the ability to be tracked via WiFi to give us the location of the Access Point it is connected to (or something similar). We had the idea of throwing a Raspberry Pi in there, but we will run into an issue with power when the cart is unplugged from the charging ports to be moved from room to room. We were thinking of using a Raspberry Pi and some sort of backup battery for the short location changes in the building. The budget remains unnamed, but within reason. Keep in mind, we will not be using the Chromebooks themselves to locate the cart. The piece of equipment will be placed within the cart, out of reach. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.