Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Getting a Ubisense CellData schema

I posted this on the Ubisense forum...I'm running into many quandries about getting at different parts of the Ubisense architecture. I'm trying to build a service to age out Ubisense tags. The issue is that Ubisense 'remembers' the last sensed location of a tag. This makes sense when the tag is on a pallet in a warehouse, but causes a problem detecting when Elvis has left the building, in other words, when a person walks out of range of the sensors, he's still 'in the building'. This can cause issues depending on the application.

I am working on code based on this forum exchange..., and it seems to be working, though I'm getting sporadic exceptions:


System.NullReferenceException was unhandled
Message="Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
Source="UbisensePlatform"
StackTrace:
at UPrivate.au.a(Byte[] A_0, EndPoint& A_1)
at UPrivate.am.j()
at UPrivate.am.k()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()


I think this might be for some underlying thread collision, or a subtle bug in my own code, so I'm trying to add additional instrumentation to my code. The current code is using the multiCell and RemoveObjectLocation. I am still working to debug that, but at the same time, I'm looking at addressing the CellData schema directly, using the remove_object method. I want to see if this clears up the problem.

I'm also doing burn-in testing of the code, right now there's a robot running around the Social Computing Room carrying around a few Ubisense tags to drive the system...quite fun!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Mike,

I am having the same exception you are indicating in this entry. Do you remember how did you solve it or did you find where the problem was?

Thanks in advanced