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/