ercenk/biketracker

An arduino project that uses Adafruit GPS logger, 10 DOF sensor and OLED display to track any moving vehicle's location, and many other things.

BikeTracker

An arduino project that uses Adafruit GPS logger, 10 DOF sensor and OLED display to track any moving vehicle's location, and many other things.

Overview

I have a long standing passion for combining data collected from around us, then analyzing and displaying using software. I have started this project to learn a few technologies.

• Hardware
  • Microcontroller (an Arduino Mega)
  • GPS receiver
  • Gyroscope
  • Accelerometer
  • Temperature sensor
  • Barometer
  • Compass
  • R/F transciever
  • MicroSD card reader
• Software
  • Hosted on Microsoft Azure Websites
  • OWIN
  • Angular
  • Various APIs on the web (time and location API from Google)
  • Google Maps
  • Facebook applications and authentication

Here is how it works

• A new file is created every time the tracker is on.
• The data collected on the sensors and GPS are sampled every two seconds and written to the MicroSD card.
• Once done collecting the data during the day, I pop out the MicroSD card and upload using the website
• Backend code authenticates me as the administrator user
• Backend code divides the data points into segments. It is a new segment if there are more than 30 minutes between two data points.
• Each segment's start and end point is retrieved as the closest cities using a geocoder API, plus the local time zone
• Data points and segments written to the Azure table store

Prototype

Testing

Mounted on the bike

Site is here: http://ercenkbike.azurewebsites.net/