My Connected Car Project
I have been working on IoT for a while and I was very happy when a collegue and friend, F. Marini, asked me to help in organizing and delivering a demo based on IoT Concepts and Technologies.
In this demo, designed by our Oracle's collegues in Spain, we show a Cars Race track, based on Anki Overdrive Game.
The data coming from a set of small cars, connected to a Raspberry PI through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Protocol, are captured from the RPI, acting as a field gateway, and are sent to Oracle's IoT Cloud Service.
Data are shown on a Real Time Dashboard and several analysis are made. There is also an integration with Oracle Service Cloud: if a car goes out of the track an event is generated and we can decide to launch a drone. The drone flies over the place the accident has happened, and a snapshot is produced and made visible to administrator.
A very nice and effective demo, showing what can be done with Internet of Things. Cool.
But a question soon has started in my mind: could we do the same thing with real data coming from a real car?
Now, I know that the answer is yes.
Therefore I decide to start a new project: "My Connected Car Project".
The main goal is to develop a fully working prototype, where data are taken from the OBD2 interface of the car, collected from a RPI vers. 3 and sent to a Cloud Service where these data can be displayed and analyzed.
In this GitBook there is the documentation about this project. The code developed is available on GitHub: