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IoT on Wheels: Winners Announcement

pchan — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:37:08 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by pchan on 2/3/2022 7:37:08 PM

After 11+ weeks of design, research, prototyping, coding and testing the final submission date for IoT on Wheels Design Challenge has passed. Tools down!

The judges have tallied their thoughts and feedback until our original 15 sponsored challengers have been whittled down to Grand Prize, Runner Up Prize, 3rd Prize and Finishers.

We are very pleased to congratulate all the Winners of the IoT on Wheels Design challenge with STMicroelectronics.

The Winners:

Grand Prize - Traffic Predictor and Auto Pilot

Dixon Selvan - Project Summary

www.youtube.com/watch

Our grand prize winner Dixon has created a device that attaches to your vehicle and scans the traffic around you with sonar.

The device then saves or uploads this traffic data to a central database, including location, time, and traffic severity.

This app then lets him "Avoid traffic like a Bat!" using the findings from sonar, the app and the Google Maps AI to find the best shared route to your chosen destination. The data on the app is to be crowd sourced from other users traffic experiences. We loved that Dixon created a motorized servo rig to attached to his motorbike that hold the sonar and Nucleo steady while riding around.

Judges Feedback:

Clear diagrams from build and Great Videos

- Dr. J Harding

I like the detail put into diagrams, flow charts, database schema etc. I like the app and the hardware works and communicates successfully with the app.

- rachaelp

Pros: Very good Theme, Machine Learning, Clear description on how and why original plans changed, Very good Videos and finally Good Overall Summary and Blogs.

- STM Judges

Grand Prize Includes:

Segway MiniPRO (retail value $600)
Oculus Rift and Touch VR Headset (retail value $600)
Duratool Crimp Kit (retail value $567)

Runner Up - The Konker Connection

dougw - Project Summary

As always, Douglas Wong really shines through as a stand out challenger. The Konker Connection connection is Douglas's effort to make his off road motor biking safer using the STM 32 Nucleo.

The initial brief was that the Nucleo was used to monitor his GPS location, monitor if his bike has been left on its side (signalling that he might have fallen off and is unable to pick it back up) and use the resonance sound of the gas tank to figure out how full it is. This was then all to be sent out via LoRa radio.

Although Douglas did not reach some of his stretch goals, he demonstrated working examples of each of the functions required.

His use of 3D printing on a curved gas tank as well as having to reverse engineer some of the Nucleo pin outs really pushed his boundaries. As always there is glory to be had in having to produce your own PCB for your project.

Douglas's "Konker Connection" is well rounded up in his own stats:

Project Stats:

16 blogs

18 videos

1 custom PCB

1 gigantic amount of learning+

As always, Douglas always comes through with a finished and polished project.

Judges Feedback:

Very good experiment with the Fuel gauge using the tank responance. Great use of Schematics and PCB design, 3D Printed Brackets, Clear blogs. Additional use of HW blocks.

- STM Judges

This project has so much to offer, in the usual Doug style he went the to great lengths to come up with a pretty polished solution. The end result, although he didn't reach some of his stretch goals was superb. The platform he's developed could easily cater for the addition of more functionality and it's already at a point where it's a pretty decent custom hardware platform.

A very high quality build including a fully custom PCB to bring everything together and a custom designed case specifically for the purpose. The end result is supurb.

- rachaelp

Clock was complete and the Product looked really good with very good presentation of experiments.

-

Dr. J Harding

Runner Up Prize Includes:

Pioneer GPS Cycle Computer Bundle (retail background $379)
GoPro Hero 5 Black Action Camera (retail value $400)
Master Appliance: Soldering Iron, Hot Knife & Heat Tool Kit (retail value $231)

Third Prize - Smart Drive

vlasov01 - Project Summary

Sergey's project, the Smart Drive, is an open, public, Big-Data project that collects broad data of journeys, like a collaborative black-box flight recorder system.

Some of the data collected would be "Red Flag Warnings" which could be input by users or created by the system. An example situation of this would be using the Geo-location and Accelerators to detect "Emergency Breaking" or "Fall Detection" as a "Red Flag Warning".

This data would firstly be displayed to the rider, giving them an option to flag it as a "False Alarm" which would ignore this Warning. If the Fall Status, Crash Status or Hard Breaking Status was a legitimate "Red Warning Flag" the GPS location would be logged and shared, that way, when other users were in close proximity to any location with a "Red Warning Flag", lights would flash and a sound would chime.

Judges and element14 staff loved this project for the extensive blogs on the details of using the Nucleo. These blogs will be very good reference for others in the future.

Data Decision Tree

Judges Feedback

Great drawings showing “How” and Clear experiments to find how things work.

- Dr. J Harding

Very good theme, Very good blog posts, real world application test, use of existing ST tools, STM32CubeMX, MQTT, and other SW Packages

- STM Judges

The concept of sharing knowledge while travelling to benefit others is great. There are others that do similar, TomTom traffic works in a similar way, as does Waze navigation, but none of these are open and accessible to the larger community. I like the use of Unicleo-GUI for visualization and logging of the various sensor data. Also all the fundamental blocks were developed and tested to prove out the concepts at each stage without getting bogged down in the detail of one particular section. I'd like to have seen more on the hardware side and a bit more of a robust prototype than the breadboarding that's currently used but given the amount of additional sensor pieces produced this is a minor criticism. Finally the video of the system actually in operation, although referenced in the final blog appears to be missing. I'd have loved to see that.

- rachaelp

Third Prize Includes:

The Traxxas Slash Radio Controlled Car Pro 2WD Short-Course Truck (retail value $245)
QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones (retail value $350)
Tenma Programmable Bench Power Supply (retail value $159)

Finishers:

Not everyone can win the grand prize but everyone who've reached the finish line is a winner in their own way. Anyone who adhered to the terms and conditions, used the STM32 Nucleo and posted more than 10 progress blogs receives a finishers' prize pack. This also includes all winners and any non-sponsored challengers that have completed the challenge.

gsgill112
PASS Smart Bike Smart Rider (SbSr)

shantimohan
Vehicle Temperature Alert System (VeTAS)

dwinhold
Fatigue Alert System

fyaocn
Wheels Walking on Water

All Finishers received the following:

Duratool Electronic Tool Kit, Basic, 22-Piece
Duratool Heat Gun
Tenma Handheld Digital Multimeter

The Judges

hubikmartin - Application Support Engineer

Martin Hubik is an application support engineer at STMicroelectronics. He received his M.Sc. in engineering at CTU in Prague before joining STM in 2016. His daily job is to provide expertise in microcontrollers to customers. His area of interest is low power MCUs and digital signal processing. Apart from his passion with electronics and programming, he also enjoys swimming and windsurfing.

Vladimir Janousek - Analog and Sensor Applications Manager

Vladimir Janousek is an analog and sensor applications manager at the STMicroelectronics office in Prague.

Dr. Jenny Harding - Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering

Professor of Intelligent Manufacturing Knowledge Systems

Director of Academic Staffing, Research Theme Leader, Sports Technology and Design Systems

Dr. Radmehr Monfared - Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering

Academics from Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering (led by Dr. Radmehr Monfared) will participate in the judging of the contest (specifically, code, videos, blogs) to determine the winner.

rachaelp - element14 Top Member Judge

As a Top Member in the element14 community, Rachael will provide her services as a judge and technical expert.

Tags: winners_announced, past_contest, iot_on_wheels_winners, iot_on_wheels

IoT on Wheels: Winners Announcement

pchan — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:35:59 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Documents by pchan on 2/3/2022 7:35:59 PM

IoT on Wheels: Winners Announcement

After 11+ weeks of design, research, prototyping, coding and testing the final submission date for IoT on Wheels Design Challenge has passed. Tools down!

The judges have tallied their thoughts and feedback until our original 15 sponsored challengers have been whittled down to Grand Prize, Runner Up Prize, 3rd Prize and Finishers.

We are very pleased to congratulate all the Winners of the IoT on Wheels Design challenge with STMicroelectronics.

The Winners:

Grand Prize - Traffic Predictor and Auto Pilot

Dixon Selvan - Project Summary

www.youtube.com/watch

Our grand prize winner Dixon has created a device that attaches to your vehicle and scans the traffic around you with sonar.

The device then saves or uploads this traffic data to a central database, including location, time, and traffic severity.

Judges Feedback:

Clear diagrams from build and Great Videos

- Dr. J Harding

I like the detail put into diagrams, flow charts, database schema etc. I like the app and the hardware works and communicates successfully with the app.

- rachaelp

Pros: Very good Theme, Machine Learning, Clear description on how and why original plans changed, Very good Videos and finally Good Overall Summary and Blogs.

- STM Judges

Grand Prize Includes:

Segway MiniPRO (retail value $600)
Oculus Rift and Touch VR Headset (retail value $600)
Duratool Crimp Kit (retail value $567)

Runner Up - The Konker Connection

dougw - Project Summary

As always, Douglas Wong really shines through as a stand out challenger. The Konker Connection connection is Douglas's effort to make his off road motor biking safer using the STM 32 Nucleo.

Although Douglas did not reach some of his stretch goals, he demonstrated working examples of each of the functions required.

Douglas's "Konker Connection" is well rounded up in his own stats:

Project Stats:

16 blogs

18 videos

1 custom PCB

1 gigantic amount of learning+

As always, Douglas always comes through with a finished and polished project.

Judges Feedback:

Very good experiment with the Fuel gauge using the tank responance. Great use of Schematics and PCB design, 3D Printed Brackets, Clear blogs. Additional use of HW blocks.

- STM Judges

This project has so much to offer, in the usual Doug style he went the to great lengths to come up with a pretty polished solution. The end result, although he didn't reach some of his stretch goals was superb. The platform he's developed could easily cater for the addition of more functionality and it's already at a point where it's a pretty decent custom hardware platform.

A very high quality build including a fully custom PCB to bring everything together and a custom designed case specifically for the purpose. The end result is supurb.

- rachaelp

Clock was complete and the Product looked really good with very good presentation of experiments.

-

Dr. J Harding

Runner Up Prize Includes:

Pioneer GPS Cycle Computer Bundle (retail background $379)
GoPro Hero 5 Black Action Camera (retail value $400)
Master Appliance: Soldering Iron, Hot Knife & Heat Tool Kit (retail value $231)

Third Prize - Smart Drive

vlasov01 - Project Summary

Sergey's project, the Smart Drive, is an open, public, Big-Data project that collects broad data of journeys, like a collaborative black-box flight recorder system.

Judges and element14 staff loved this project for the extensive blogs on the details of using the Nucleo. These blogs will be very good reference for others in the future.

Data Decision Tree

Judges Feedback

Great drawings showing “How” and Clear experiments to find how things work.

- Dr. J Harding

Very good theme, Very good blog posts, real world application test, use of existing ST tools, STM32CubeMX, MQTT, and other SW Packages

- STM Judges

The concept of sharing knowledge while travelling to benefit others is great. There are others that do similar, TomTom traffic works in a similar way, as does Waze navigation, but none of these are open and accessible to the larger community. I like the use of Unicleo-GUI for visualization and logging of the various sensor data. Also all the fundamental blocks were developed and tested to prove out the concepts at each stage without getting bogged down in the detail of one particular section. I'd like to have seen more on the hardware side and a bit more of a robust prototype than the breadboarding that's currently used but given the amount of additional sensor pieces produced this is a minor criticism. Finally the video of the system actually in operation, although referenced in the final blog appears to be missing. I'd have loved to see that.

- rachaelp

Third Prize Includes:

The Traxxas Slash Radio Controlled Car Pro 2WD Short-Course Truck (retail value $245)
QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones (retail value $350)
Tenma Programmable Bench Power Supply (retail value $159)

Finishers:

gsgill112
PASS Smart Bike Smart Rider (SbSr)

shantimohan
Vehicle Temperature Alert System (VeTAS)

dwinhold
Fatigue Alert System

fyaocn
Wheels Walking on Water

All Finishers received the following:

Duratool Electronic Tool Kit, Basic, 22-Piece
Duratool Heat Gun
Tenma Handheld Digital Multimeter

The Judges

hubikmartin - Application Support Engineer

Vladimir Janousek - Analog and Sensor Applications Manager

Vladimir Janousek is an analog and sensor applications manager at the STMicroelectronics office in Prague.

Dr. Jenny Harding - Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering

Professor of Intelligent Manufacturing Knowledge Systems

Director of Academic Staffing, Research Theme Leader, Sports Technology and Design Systems

Dr. Radmehr Monfared - Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering

rachaelp - element14 Top Member Judge

As a Top Member in the element14 community, Rachael will provide her services as a judge and technical expert.

Tags: winners_announced, past_contest, iot_on_wheels_winners, iot_on_wheels

Calling all IoT on Wheels Applicants

e14phil — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:22:37 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by e14phil on 10/6/2021 9:22:37 PM

Calling all IoT on Wheels Applicants!

If you were or were not successful we need your help!

We would love to know more about you and your application process.

One of our partners in the IoT on Wheels Design challenge is Dr. Christian DeFeo doctorcdf of Loughborough University, in the UK.

Dr. DeFeo is working on research into how online communities support innovation and would be very grateful if you would have time to fill out a short survey about this design challenge.

Survey Link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdkXlRkE9FFksvM_CbbHmpKilVv0pwbNqz5FaofvWFJOFUGbA/viewform?usp=sf_link

About Dr. DeFeo

Dr. Christian DeFeo
University of Loughbrough

Dr. Christian DeFeoearned a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Southampton in 2010. Afterwards, he returned to a career in technology, working for the electronics distributor Premier Farnell where he helped create innovative online community programmes. He is presently studying for a second PhD in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University.

Dr. DeFeo will be interviewing challengers during the process as part of his and Loughborough university’s research into how online communities support innovation.

c.j.defeo@lboro.ac.uk

Please note Dr. Defeo is external to the element14 team and your data would be used for University of Loughborough research.

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migration.user — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 18:07:22 GMT

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IoT on Wheels: Talking to the Winners

danzima — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:19:37 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by danzima on 12/28/2017 9:19:37 PM

Whether it's our cars, bikes, motorcycles, scooters, or skateboards, our wheels are important to us. They get us to work and school, and offer a speedy way to visit a friend or just have some fun. However, even though we love our wheels as is, they certainly could be safer, smarter, or more efficient. That was the goal of our IoT on Wheels Design Challenge with STMicroelectronics. They helped us design a fantastic kit for our contestants to use to upgrade their wheels, and the kit proved its worth as our challengers returned impressive new designs, so I decided to have an electronic chat with our three top finishers, dixonselvan, dougw, and vlasov01.

What inspired you to join this design challenge? Was there a specific experience you had with transportation, or perhaps something you read, that gave you the inspiration for your design?

Douglas Wong: In my first job, I spent 10 years working on all kinds of transportation-related projects – trains, planes, cars, boats, trucks, even submarines, and more recently I had done a vehicle simulator project on element14 based on the Beaglebone Black. It took me a while to decide to apply for the challenge. I first investigated the kit to see if it was of interest, and I discovered this NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG module is very powerful and I had always wanted to learn more about the Nucleo line.

Next, I thought about issues I had with my wheels. The things that stood out were not knowing the time while commuting on my motorcycle, and not knowing the amount of gas left in the tank. Once I started thinking about a clock and using GPS to get an accurate time, it was an easy leap to thinking about tracking the location of the bike. I didn't want to pay for a cell phone link, so I investigated LoRa.

Dixon's Traffic Predictor

Dixon Selvan: Every day I travel a total of 16 kilometers to my office, and it usually takes me 30 minutes because of traffic. One day, when I took along a stranger along with me, he showed me a shortcut that avoided much of the traffic. But this route was not available in Google Maps. That's when I decided to make a system which gets the user's best routes to save time.

Sergey Vlasov: I spend a lot of time commuting, and I think there are a lot of opportunities to improve transportation. Google does a great job of collecting and sharing information on traffic and accidents, but it has a main focus on cars. Blubel is focusing on cyclists, but it seems to be a closed platform, and there are several other closed platforms which are trying to solve similar problems. I was hoping to design an open and flexible platform to support the whole community on wheels.

What surprised you about your work as you developed your design over the 11 weeks of the challenge? Did you have any earlier “draft” ideas for the project that you did not choose, and if so why did you choose your final design?

Douglas Wong: I was a bit surprised that all the Nucleo daughter cards only used the Arduino connector, given that Nucleo has its own, more comprehensive Morpho connector system. This results in a lot of pin conflicts between Nucleo cards and 3rd party Arduino ones.

How did you feel about working with the STMicroelectronics Stackable Hardware?

Dixon Selvan: I was having fun stacking one over the other, which rekindled my love for building blocks. They were really elegant in design, compact, easy to stack and very important with their useful hardware (Bluetooth, MEMS, and Wi-Fi). As I had more to design and learn within the 2 months, I substituted these communication stacks with the already known HC-05 in my design to communicate with the Android app.

Douglas Wong: The WiFi card by itself used most of the Arduino pins, so it could be difficult to find other cards that could be stacked and only use the few unused pins. This is pretty common when trying to stack a lot of cards onto Arduino connectors.

Was the kit provided to you appropriate for your design?

Sergey Vlasov: The kit provided most of the capabilities needed to implement my design ideas. I’ve added a GPS module as location, speed, and heading are very important on the road. I think a cell data connection could add value from a connectivity perspective for this type of challenge, as well.

Dixon Selvan: Yes and no. I felt that a GPS module could have been added to the kit; with the theme being related to travel it would have been appropriate to add one. I could see that most of the contestants had to buy one, while I used my phone’s GPS. But a big Yes for the STMicro Stackable Hardware, which was really more relevant for my design.

What was the biggest technical problem you encountered during the challenge? Did you have to make significant changes to your approach at any point?

Douglas Wong: It turned out it was going to be very expensive to implement a LoRa gateway for the Nucleo LoRa card I bought, so I purchased a 3rd party LoRa card that mated to a low-cost LoRa gateway. The LoRa radio card I ended up using had drivers programmed in an Arduino IDE. Fortunately, there is an Arduino-compatible IDE available for the Nucleo MCU which would allow my custom interface card software to access the LoRa radio. Unfortunately, the Arduino IDE implementation for Nucleo did not have Arduino-compatible SPI commands, which caused the LoRa radio code to fail. It was not feasible for me to port that complex code to MBED or System Workbench in the time available, especially since I have never used either IDE.

Dixon Selvan: The first challenge I faced was when I wanted my project to be mobile and also to power it through a portable power supply I overcame this after reading the Nucleo-L476RG board’s manual and finding the answers there Next I had an issue with serial communication I was left clueless as my setup was working as expected with Arduino and when I shifted it to Nucleo-L476RG it did not work After some time I found that it was the fact that the Nucleo-L476RG board had an alternative CN3’s TX and RX instead of usual TX and RX for serial communication

Dixon's sensor output

How did the community help in your project?

Dixon Selvan: The community molded my design with their valuable comments, which reinforced my ideas and kept me motivated. I would like to mention DAB, who was consistently reading my blogs and commenting on them, and CharlesGantt for his weekly roundup blogs. The co-contestant’s blogs also really helped me; to mention a few, I would say dougw blog on making use of the Arduino IDE to code the Nucleo-L476RG board and vlasov01 blog on coding the stackable hardware through the Mbed Online Compiler.

Sergey's data visualized

What techniques have you used for the first time in this build?

Douglas Wong: This project attempted to measure fuel level using acoustic resonance – that is a first anywhere, as far as I know.

Sergey Vlasov: There was a lot that was new for me in this challenge: STM32L4, Mbed, IBM Watson IoT, gyroscopes, accelerometers, STM32CubeMx, UBX, u-center, and ARM C.

What did you have to consider - especially regarding safety - before taking your project out onto the road?

Douglas Wong: The fuel I was trying to measure was gasoline, which can be dangerous in many ways. I totally avoided making any alterations to the fuel system by trying to measure the fuel level externally, without even opening the gas cap.

Sergey Vlasov: It was important to protect my device from environmental impacts like rain. At the same time, it was meant to be compact and easy to observe and access, as well as easy to replace its power source and upload a new firmware. But, most importantly, it shouldn’t take your attention away from the road.

Tags: design challenge, lorawan, iot on wheels, interview, stmicroelectronics, iot, stmicro

IoT on Wheels Design Challenge: The Judges

randogless — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:28:07 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by randogless on 12/12/2017 3:28:07 PM

IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	The Challengers

To judge the merits of the IoT on Wheels applications and final project builds, element14 asked the help of a panel of experts who agreed to be the judges of the Challenge.

So, without further ado, element14 is pleased to introduce our panel of judges:

hubikmartin - Application Support Engineer

Vladimir Janousek - Analog and Sensor Applications Manager

Vladimir Janousek is an analog and sensor applications manager at the STMicroelectronics office in Prague.

Dr. Radmehr Monfared - Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering

Dr. Jenny Harding - Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering

As professor of Intelligent Manufacturing Knowledge Systems, she is also the Director of Academic Staffing, Research Theme Leader, Sports Technology and Design Systems at Loughborough University.

rachaelp - element14 Top Member Judge

As a Top Member in the element14 community, Rachael will provide her services as a judge and technical expert.

Thank you to Martin Hubik and Vladimir Janousek from STMicroelectronics, Dr. Radmehr Monfared of Loughborough University and Top Member Rachael Peterson for offering their time and services as judges, as well as being on hand to respond to questions during the Challenge. The element14 community team with help oversee the judges and challengers during the design challenge process.

For any general questions about the Challenge, you can post a 'comment' on the About This Challenge page. Your fellow Challengers or anyone following the challenge are likely to respond.

To keep up-to-date on the IoT on Wheels Design Challenge, please 'bookmark' the Challenge.

Tags: design challenge, design_challenge, iot on wheels design challenge, the judges, iot on wheels

IoT on Wheels: Winners Announcement

e14phil — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:45:05 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Documents by e14phil on 12/12/2017 2:45:05 PM

IoT on Wheels: Winners Announcement

After 11+ weeks of design, research, prototyping, coding and testing the final submission date for IoT on Wheels Design Challenge has passed. Tools down!

The judges have tallied their thoughts and feedback until our original 15 sponsored challengers have been whittled down to Grand Prize, Runner Up Prize, 3rd Prize and Finishers.

We are very pleased to congratulate all the Winners of the IoT on Wheels Design challenge with STMicroelectronics.

The Winners:

Grand Prize - Traffic Predictor and Auto Pilot

Dixon Selvan - Project Summary

www.youtube.com/watch

Our grand prize winner Dixon has created a device that attaches to your vehicle and scans the traffic around you with sonar.

The device then saves or uploads this traffic data to a central database, including location, time, and traffic severity.

Judges Feedback:

Clear diagrams from build and Great Videos
- Dr. J Harding

I like the detail put into diagrams, flow charts, database schema etc. I like the app and the hardware works and communicates successfully with the app.
- rachaelp

Pros: Very good Theme, Machine Learning, Clear description on how and why original plans changed, Very good Videos and finally Good Overall Summary and Blogs.
- STM Judges

Grand Prize Includes:

Segway MiniPRO (retail value $600)
Oculus Rift and Touch VR Headset (retail value $600)
Duratool Crimp Kit (retail value $567)

Runner Up - The Konker Connection

dougw - Project Summary

As always, Douglas Wong really shines through as a stand out challenger. The Konker Connection connection is Douglas's effort to make his off road motor biking safer using the STM 32 Nucleo.

Although Douglas did not reach some of his stretch goals, he demonstrated working examples of each of the functions required.

Douglas's "Konker Connection" is well rounded up in his own stats:

Project Stats:

16 blogs
18 videos
1 custom PCB
1 gigantic amount of learning+

As always, Douglas always comes through with a finished and polished project.

Judges Feedback:

Very good experiment with the Fuel gauge using the tank responance. Great use of Schematics and PCB design, 3D Printed Brackets, Clear blogs. Additional use of HW blocks.
- STM Judges

This project has so much to offer, in the usual Doug style he went the to great lengths to come up with a pretty polished solution. The end result, although he didn't reach some of his stretch goals was superb. The platform he's developed could easily cater for the addition of more functionality and it's already at a point where it's a pretty decent custom hardware platform.

A very high quality build including a fully custom PCB to bring everything together and a custom designed case specifically for the purpose. The end result is supurb.
- rachaelp

Clock was complete and the Product looked really good with very good presentation of experiments.
-
Dr. J Harding

Runner Up Prize Includes:

Pioneer GPS Cycle Computer Bundle (retail background $379)
GoPro Hero 5 Black Action Camera (retail value $400)
Master Appliance: Soldering Iron, Hot Knife & Heat Tool Kit (retail value $231)

Third Prize - Smart Drive

vlasov01 - Project Summary

Sergey's project, the Smart Drive, is an open, public, Big-Data project that collects broad data of journeys, like a collaborative black-box flight recorder system.

Judges and element14 staff loved this project for the extensive blogs on the details of using the Nucleo. These blogs will be very good reference for others in the future.

Data Decision Tree

Judges Feedback

Great drawings showing “How” and Clear experiments to find how things work.
- Dr. J Harding

Very good theme, Very good blog posts, real world application test, use of existing ST tools, STM32CubeMX, MQTT, and other SW Packages
- STM Judges

The concept of sharing knowledge while travelling to benefit others is great. There are others that do similar, TomTom traffic works in a similar way, as does Waze navigation, but none of these are open and accessible to the larger community. I like the use of Unicleo-GUI for visualization and logging of the various sensor data. Also all the fundamental blocks were developed and tested to prove out the concepts at each stage without getting bogged down in the detail of one particular section. I'd like to have seen more on the hardware side and a bit more of a robust prototype than the breadboarding that's currently used but given the amount of additional sensor pieces produced this is a minor criticism. Finally the video of the system actually in operation, although referenced in the final blog appears to be missing. I'd have loved to see that.
- rachaelp

Third Prize Includes:

The Traxxas Slash Radio Controlled Car Pro 2WD Short-Course Truck (retail value $245)
QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones (retail value $350)
Tenma Programmable Bench Power Supply (retail value $159)

Finishers:

gsgill112
PASS Smart Bike Smart Rider (SbSr)

shantimohan
Vehicle Temperature Alert System (VeTAS)

dwinhold
Fatigue Alert System

fyaocn
Wheels Walking on Water

All Finishers received the following:

Duratool Electronic Tool Kit, Basic, 22-Piece
Duratool Heat Gun
Tenma Handheld Digital Multimeter

The Judges

hubikmartin - Application Support Engineer

Vladimir Janousek - Analog and Sensor Applications Manager

Vladimir Janousek is an analog and sensor applications manager at the STMicroelectronics office in Prague.

Dr. Jenny Harding - Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering

Professor of Intelligent Manufacturing Knowledge Systems

Director of Academic Staffing, Research Theme Leader, Sports Technology and Design Systems

Dr. Radmehr Monfared - Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electronic, and Manufacturing Engineering

rachaelp - element14 Top Member Judge

As a Top Member in the element14 community, Rachael will provide her services as a judge and technical expert.

Tags: winners_announced, past_contest, iot_on_wheels_winners, iot_on_wheels

IoT on Wheels Design Challenge: About This Challenge

randogless — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:13:27 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by randogless on 10/10/2017 4:13:27 PM

IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms & Conditions	The Challengers

Make your wheels safer, smarter or more efficient with the element14 IoT on Wheels Design Challenge.

Integrate the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG Development Board from STMicroelectronics into your project for the chance to win a prize package worth up to $1800.

The IoT on Wheels Design Challenge will choose 10 sponsored challengers to receive a Challenger Kit for FREE.

But anyone can join the Challenge as a non-sponsored Challenger. Here's how: Simply get the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG and integrate it into your project, as well as post 10 blogs about your design journey in the IoT on Wheels space (tagging your blogs 'IoT on Wheels').

The deadline for project submissions is 13th November.

To be eligible to win some fantastic prizes, including a Segway MiniPRO – a hands-free two-wheel electric scooter – you must blog at least 10 times on the Community detailing your project build.

All Challengers must build their projects in accordance with the Challenge's terms and conditions. All projects must include the NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG.

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IoT On Wheels - Official Challengers Announcement

e14phil — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:16:43 GMT

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	The Challengers

Welcome to the IoT on Wheels Design Challengers!

'IoT on Wheels' begins with element14 in association with STMicroelectronics sponsoring the first 10 Challenger's vehicles with an NUCLEO-L476RG

Interested in Challenging the Challengers? You can do it as a non-sponsored Challenger! Here's How:

All you need to do is get the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RG and integrate it into your project, as well as post 10 blogs about your design journey in the IoT on Wheels space (tagging your blogs 'iot on wheels') and you'll be eligible to win the awesome prizes.

These Challengers will receive a Challenger Kit for FREE.

But anyone can join the Challenge as a non-sponsored Challenger Here's how Simply get the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG and integrate it into your project as well as post 10 blogs about your design journey in the IoT on Wheels space(tagging your blogs'IoT on Wheels

Please join us in congratulating the official sponsored Challengers. We look forward to reading all your initial blogs introducing your project designs:

abhijitnathwani

India

Project: Avoid the Bump!

Synopsis: "The idea is to create a system which tracks the potholes as the vehicles navigate through the city and locate their geographic location so that it is easy for the authorities to fix them. Through the system, I plan to remove one major hurdle/excuse for the authorities claiming they do not know the location of the damaged roads and potholes."

Abhijit Nathwani's project blogs

dwinhold

Canada

Project: Fatigue Alert System

Synopsis: "I have a sleep disorder and this ups the possibility of falling asleep while driving. Fatigue is a factor in up to 21 per cent of motor vehicle collisions, resulting in

about 400 deaths and 2,100 serious injuries every year. At 21 per cent, fatigue would rank as the third highest cause of collisions behind impaired driving and

speed. This is an issue that needs to be addressed."

Dale Winhold's project blogs

Dixon Selvan

India

Project: Traffic Predictor and Auto Pilot

Synopsis: "It is everyone who will be annoyed to end up on a busy street with never ending traffic. This made me come up with an idea to machine learn and collect information through the mass storage capability of STM32 Nucleo-64 development board. Using the information collected, we can predict the routes the user use and the traffic he/she will face. We can suggest him/her with the alternative route or time which will save him/her from the traffic."

Dixon Selvan's project blogs

dougw

Canada

Project: The Konker Connection

Synopsis:

"My Konker motorcycle is a great little machine for exploring the backwoods, overgrown trails, seldom used pathways, dirt trails and back roads. It is street legal but it is designed and built to go off-road. I also use it for commuting to work as it gets great gas mileage.

It has only rudimentary instrumentation - in keeping with its rugged purpose, but I would like to outfit it with some useful extra features and this design challenge is a perfect excuse to take a run at implementing them."

Douglas Wong's project blogs

fyaocn

China

Project: Walking Wheels on Water

Synopsis: "Make the wheel walking on the water is to make one plane on floating barrel and passive wheels.

The plane can not fly on air, but can float on water and move on road. Driven by propellers."

F. Yao's project blogs

brains93

Northern Ireland, UK

Project: Smart Road

Synopsis: "I had though, why make a vehicle smarter when you could in theory make all vehicles smarter by making the roads smarter.

Using a fabric (or some other means of integrating with the tarmac) you could have smart patches throughout a road with various sensors for measuring temperature, humidity, wind speed and average speed of traffic, the smart road could then broadcast status messages to a console in a car warning of Ice, high winds or even if the traffic is slowing rapidly. This could be made available via a custom made device to pick up the signals or using an app for the consoles which are in built in most cars."

Grant Colgan's project blogs

gsgill112

India

Project: Smart Bike Smart Rider (SbSr)

Synopsis: Gurinder endeavors to build a smart bike that will detect pot holes advise on weather conditions and grade a cyclists ride based on gradients of hills Safety is another key feature that will get an overhaul with the X-NUCLEO-IKS01A2X-NUCLEO-IKS01A2 Board

Gurinder Singh Gill's project blogs

RParkerE

USA

Project: Cycle-Ops Security

Synopsis: "Most people who ride a bicycle on a regular basis are aware that it is of up most importance to secure your bike, as it is a significant investment, and you would not want it to be gone by the time you get done at work or in the grocery store. Many people are also aware that it isn't as easy to have GPS or use one's phone for navigation on bike as it is in a car or motorcycle.

This project interest me as I have seen many bicycles on my college campus stolen and is one of the reasons I have hesitated in bringing one myself. If I can increase security and safety through making a smart bicycle I feel as though it would make it easier for more people to use the bicycle as a mode of transportation."

Parker Ellwanger's project blogs

shantimohan

USA

Project: Vehicle Temperature Alert System (VeTAS)

Synopsis: "Now a days we have been hearing about death of children being left inside hot cars. None of the vehicles driven today, old or new, have any way of intimating the drivers that either the car interior is getting hot, left a kid in the car or both. Hence this VeTAS project will enable the drivers to get notification when things are going wrong. "

Shantimohan Elchuri's project blogs

vlasov01

Canada

Project: Smart drive

Synopsis: "I'd like to build a collaborative system, that will connect different participants on the wheels. They will be able to share data collected during their travels, Especially valuable will be data related to events like emergency breaking, collisions, crashes, this data will be linked to the position, speed and other information collected from the sensors."

Sergey Vlasov's project blogs

Interested in Challenging the Challengers? You can do it as a non-sponsored Challenger! Here's How:

Read full terms & conditions for more details.

Good Luck Everyone!

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge: Terms and Conditions

randogless — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:59:38 GMT

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	The Challengers

Like most other competitions, element14's Design Challenge competitions have established rules the contestants must follow.

They ensure fair play and prevent abuses, among others. These rules are detailed in our Terms and Conditions. You can read the IoT on Wheels Design Challenge Terms and Conditions by downloading the attached PDF.

It’s Never Too Late to Join the IoT on Wheels Design Challenge

You don’t need to be a sponsored Challenger to join the Challenge. Anyone can join at any time before the project submission deadline. All you need to do is get the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG and integrate it into your project, as well as post 10 blogs about your design journey in the IoT on Wheels space (tagging your blogs 'iot on wheels'). You will then be eligible to win some awesome prizes!

The deadline for project submissions is 13th November.

Attachments:

community.element14.com/.../IoT-on-Wheels-Terms-_2600_-Conditions.pdf

IoT on Wheels Terms & Conditions.pdf

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge: Technical Documents

randogless — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:58:16 GMT

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	The Challengers

Check out the following technical documentation from STMicroelectronics:

Overview

STM32 Open Development Environment

STM32 MCU Nucleo

Getting Started

Documentation

NUCLEO-L476RG Dev Board

X-NUCLEO-IKS01A2: Motion MEMS and environmental sensor expansion board for STM32 Nucleo

X-NUCLEO-IDB05A1: Bluetooth Low Energy expansion board based on SPBTLE-RF module for STM32 Nucleo

X-NUCLEO-IDW04A1: Wi-Fi expansion board based on SPWF04SA module for STM32 Nucleo

Compatibility of the X-NUCLEO-IDW01M1 Wi-Fi evaluation board with other X-NUCLEO boards

STM32 ODE function pack for IoT node with BLE connectivity and environmental and motion sensors

Software

SW4STM32: System Workbench for STM32: free IDE on Windows, Linux and OS X

Support

Online Support Service

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge: Unboxing Video

randogless — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:57:12 GMT

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	The Challengers

www.youtube.com/watch

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge: Intro Video

randogless — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:56:36 GMT

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	The Challengers

Whether it be our cars, bikes, motorcycles, scooters or skateboards, our “wheels” are important to us.

They get us to work, school, or offer a speedy way to visit a friend or just have some fun. But even though we love our WHEELS, they could be safer, smarter, or more efficient. That’s the goal of the element14 ‘IoT on Wheels’ Design Challenge with STMicroelectronics.

To learn more about the IoT on the Wheels Design Challenge, please watch the fun video below.

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html

Anyone Can Compete in the IoT on Wheels Design Challenge. Here's How:

You don’t necessarily need to be a sponsored Challenger to compete in the Challenge. Anyone can join at any time before project submissions are due. All you need to do is get the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG and integrate it into your project, as well as post 10 blogs about your design journey in the IoT on Wheels space (tagging your blogs 'iot on wheels'). You will then be eligible to win some fantastic prizes!

The deadline for project submissions is 13th November.

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge: The Prizes

randogless — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:54:59 GMT

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	The Challengers

Prizes Sponsored by The element14 Community

To reward the creativity and innovation of the Challengers in the IoT on Wheels Design Challenge, element14 is offering some cool prizes that both sponsored and non-sponsored finishers can win.

Grand Prize Includes:

Segway MiniPRO (retail value $600)

Oculus Rift and Touch VR Headset (retail value $600)

Duratool Crimp Kit (retail value $567)

Runner Up Prize Includes:

Pioneer GPS Cycle Computer Bundle (retail background $379)

GoPro Hero 5 Black Action Camera (retail value $400)

Master Appliance: Soldering Iron, Hot Knife & Heat Tool Kit (retail value $231)

Third Prize Includes:

The Traxxas Slash Radio Controlled Car Pro 2WD Short-Course Truck (retail value $245)

QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones (retail value $350)

Tenma Programmable Bench Power Supply (retail value $159)

Finisher Prize Includes:

Duratool Electronic Tool Kit, Basic, 22-Piece

Duratool Heat Gun

Tenma Handheld Digital Multimeter

Non-Sponsored Challengers Are Eligible To Win These Cool Prizes

To be eligible for these cool prizes, if you are a non-sponsored Challenger, all you need to do is get the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG and integrate it into your project, plus post 10 blogs about your design journey in the IoT on Wheels space (tagging their blogs 'iot on wheels').

The deadline for project submissions is 13th November.

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge: The Kit

randogless — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:54:33 GMT

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IoT on Wheels Design Challenge
About this Challenge	The Kit	The Prizes	Intro Video	Unboxing Video
Technical Documents	The Judges	Example Application	Terms and Conditions	The Challengers

All of the sponsored Challengers for the "IoT on Wheels" Design Challenge will receive for FREE the following kit, detailed in the table below, which is based on the STMicroelectronics STM32 Open Development Environment.

Our judges will choose 10 applicants to become sponsored challengers, these challengers will receive the kit free of charge. If your application is not chosen to become a sponsored challenger, you can buy the kit from the link below and still be in the running to win!

The STM32 Open Development Environment is an open, flexible, and affordable way to develop innovative devices and applications based on the STM32 32-bit microcontroller family combined with other state-of-the-art ST components connected via expansion boards.

To learn more, watch the video below.

www.youtube.com/watch

Once the sponsored Challengers receive their kit, they will then embark on their journey of designing an exciting and original project that will make their vehicle of choice – whether it has 1, 2, 3, or 4 wheels – safer, smarter, more efficient, or improves traffic management through the use of Internet connectivity and embedded devices. (NOTE: even if you aren't a sponsored Challenger, you can still participate in the Design Challenge as long as you follow with the terms and conditions and integrate the STMicroelectronics Nucleo MCU dev board into your design.)

If you complete your project by the deadline and write at least 10 blog posts (tagging your blogs 'iot on wheels'), you’ll also be in the running for some awesome prizes, including a Segway MiniPRO.

The deadline for project submissions is 13th November

Kit Unboxing Video:

www.youtube.com/watch

Technical Documents

The Kit Buy KitBuy Kit
STM32 Nucleo Board The STM32 Nucleo board provides an affordable and flexible way for users to try out new ideas and build prototypes with any STM32 microcontroller line. With Arduino™ connectors and ST Morpho headers, the functionality of the STM32 Nucleo open development platform can easily be expanded with the use of specialized shields. The STM32 Nucleo board does not require any separate probe, since the ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger and programmer is integrated on the board. The STM32 Nucleo board also comes with the STM32 comprehensive software HAL library together with various packaged software examples, as well as direct access to mbed online resources.	Buy NowBuy Now
Sensor Expansion Board The X-NUCLEO-IKS01A2X-NUCLEO-IKS01A2 is a motion MEMS and environmental sensor expansion board for the STM32 Nucleo It is equipped with Arduino UNO R3 connector layout and is designed around the LSM6DSL 3D accelerometer and 3D gyroscope(ii the LSM303AGR 3D accelerometer and 3D magnetometer(iii the HTS221HTS221 humidity and temperature sensor and(iv the LPS22HB pressure sensor It interfaces with the STM32 microcontroller via the I ^²C pin.	Buy NowBuy Now
Bluetooth LE Expansion Board The X-NUCLEO-IDB05A1X-NUCLEO-IDB05A1 is a Bluetooth Low Energy evaluation board based on the SPBTLE-RF BlueNRG-MS RF module The SPBTLE-RF module is FCC(FCC ID S9NSPBTLERF and IC certified(IC 8976C-SPBTLERF It is compatible with the ST Morpho and Arduino UNO R3 connector layout The X-NUCLEO-IDB05A1X-NUCLEO-IDB05A1 interfaces with the STM32 microcontroller via the SPI pin and the user can change the default SPI clock the SPI chip select and SPI IRQ by changing one resistor on the evaluation board	Buy NowBuy Now
WiFi Expansion Board The X-NUCLEO-IDW04A1 Wi-Fi evaluation board is based on the SPWF04SA module. The SPWF04SA module has an embedded STM32 MCU, a low-power Wi-Fi b/g/n SoC with integrated power amplifier and power management, and an SMD antenna. The SPWF04SA module relies on 2 MB MCU internal Flash. 1 MB of the internal Flash is for storing the user file system and performing secure firmware update over the air (FOTA). A hardware interface allows the use of external memory to extend file system storage capability with no size limit. The firmware includes a complete IP stack, dynamic web pages with SSI to interact with the module and a REST API (get & post) for conveniently transferring files to and from servers in the cloud. The module can simultaneously behave as a socket server and socket client. The firmware supports secure sockets with TLS encryption, ensuring secure end-to-end communications with the cloud. The X-NUCLEO-IDW04A1 interfaces with the MCU on the STM32 Nucleo board via the UART serial port and SPI interface.	Buy NowBuy Now

Interested in Challenging the Challengers? You can do it as a non-sponsored Challenger! Here's How:

All you need to do is get the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RGNUCLEO-L476RG and integrate it into your project, as well as post 10 blogs about your design journey in the IoT on Wheels space (tagging your blogs 'iot on wheels') and you'll be eligible to win the awesome prizes.

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Monitor your car with this IoT on Wheels OBD-II Device from Samsung

e14phil — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:47:35 GMT

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IoT on Wheels OBD-II Device from Samsung

Samsung has released the Samsung Connect Auto – a quick and easy IoT upgrade device for your vehicle

Image Source Samsung

The Samsung Connect Auto is a smart OBD-II Socket interface device.

Pretty much every car built since 1996 has been fitted with an OBD-II port, which allows access to the vehicle's On-board Diagnostics system (OBD). We will go into the OBD in further detail below.

Image Source Wikipedia

This device is powered by the OBD-II Port (Pin 16 is 12/24v and Pin 4 is Chassis Ground). It provides a 4G LTE Hotspot for up to 10 devices in the vehicle.

This does mean that this product is sold via cellular network providers such as AT&T in the USA so it use the Samsung Connect Auto, you would need an accompanying cellular data package.

As an always-on WI-FI, 4G LTE is very handy, even if it is just to keep the kids entertained during long journeys. This is a fully connected internet device that is plugged directly into your car's CAN bus network. It has the option to do so much more than just leech power.

The Connect Auto comes with an Android app that gathers and interprets the data from the car's CAN bus network. The first and most obvious use of this is to check error codes given by the vehicle, which Samsung calls the “Virtual Mechanic” feature.

This can be very useful for avoiding large service bills and knowing about the health of your car.

Each of the EOBD fault codes consists of five characters: a letter, followed by four numbers. The letter refers to the system being interrogated e.g. Pxxxx would refer to the powertrain system. The next character would be a 0 if complied to the EOBD standard. So it should look like P0xxx.

The next character would refer to the sub system:

P00xx – Fuel and air metering and auxiliary emission controls.
P01xx – Fuel and air metering.
P02xx – Fuel and air metering (injector circuit).
P03xx – Ignition system or misfire.
P04xx – Auxiliary emissions controls.
P05xx – Vehicle speed controls and idle control system.
P06xx – Computer output circuit.
P07xx – Transmission.
P08xx – Transmission.

The following two characters would refer to the individual fault within each subsystem.

Bluetooth OBD-II port scanners have been on the market for a few years now, and checking error codes is usually where the functionality ends, but the Auto Connect does this and more… much, much, more.

The next trick in this little box is security. The app allows you to get notifications if:

Your vehicle exists a definable geo-fence,
Moved unexpectedly without your phone being present
If someone unplugs the OBD-II device.

Another core security feature, mirrored by Samsung’s other mobile devices, is the “Find my Vehicle” feature that allows you to pinpoint your vehicle's last known GPS coordinates on a map.

I feel this feature will be used less when a car has been stolen and more when you cannot remember where you parked your car after a particularly rough trip to Ikea.

Fuel Economy and driver style are the next values to be crunched over in the Samsung cloud servers. They track metrics and events such as:

Hard acceleration events
Hard breaking events
Hard Cornering events
Time spend Over 100Km/h

These recorded events plus fuel consumption all add up to your Driver Score. The better the score, the more efficient and safer you are as a driver.

The app gives you this feedback to help you improve your fuel efficiency, get more miles out of your tyres and brake pads.

As someone with a heavy foot I would probably not like what the app has to say about my driving style.

Samsung hopes to make connections with insurance companies and make this device a “black box” for driving, reporting good and bad behaviour to your insurance company so they can teak your insurance fees.

The last trick in this under dash box of wonders is its ability to track:

Journey Details
Hours driving
Fuel Costs

These could, presumably, be output to help claiming mileage back on business trips or tracking other drivers of your car.

This device is a polished end IoT on Wheels product with built in connection to the CAN bus network of sensors feeding to Samsung’s Cloud platform, which then displays this data concisely in an app with Google maps integration and a sleek intuitive user interface.

The theme of IoT on Wheels Design Challenge is to improve our vehicles with IoT connectivity, whether it be our cars, bikes, motorcycles, scooters or skateboards.

Integrate the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RG Development Board from STMicroelectronics into your project for the chance to win a prize package worth up to $1800.

The IoT on Wheels Design Challenge will choose 10 sponsored challengers to receive a Challenger Kit for FREE, but anyone can join the Challenge as a non-sponsored Challenger.
Here's how: Simply get the low-cost NUCLEO-L476RG and integrate it into your project, as well as post 10 blogs about your design journey in the IoT on Wheels space (tagging your blogs 'IoT on Wheels').

The deadline for project submissions is 13th November.

To be eligible to win some fantastic prizes, including a Segway MiniPRO – a hands-free two-wheel electric scooter – you must blog at least 10 times on the Community detailing your project build.

All Challengers must build their projects in accordance with the Challenge's terms and conditions. All projects must include the NUCLEO-L476RG.

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