52°North in motion for breast cancer research
In honor of World Cancer Day, several 52°North staff members laced up their shoes and hit the pavement for the Breast Cancer Charity Run (Brustkrebs Spendenlauf). Katharina Demmich and Merel Vogel took advantage of the nice weather and each accomplished a 5 km run! Ann Hitchcock started this year’s running season with a 7.5 km run. And Markus Konkol walked his dog Sedi for 8+ km!
Many thanks to the participants for their contributions!
enviroCar Mobile is an Android application for smartphones that can be used to collect Extended Floating Car Data. A Bluetooth OBD2 adapter is used to communicate with the app while driving. This enables read access to data from the vehicle’s engine control. The data is recorded along with the smartphone’s GPS position data. The driver can view statistics about his drives and publish his data as open data. The latter happens by uploading tracks to the enviroCar server, where the data is available under the ODB licence for further analysis and use. The data can also be viewed and analysed via the enviroCar website.
It’s Tuesday. 9pm. Silence in room 2. Typing. Whispering. Incredulous laughter. I am standing in front of 15 people staring at their screens, relieved to see that some of them struggle. Relieved? Exactly! But let’s take a step back.
The enviroCar app makes use of various 1st and 3rd party open source libraries to provide various functionalities along with a seamless experience to users. My goal is to update all the deprecated libraries currently implemented by replacing them with superior alternatives or updating them to their latest stable release.