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Filed Under: 52°North Tagged With: cool spots, heat resilient urban areas, OSM, QGIS
With the increasing impacts of climate change on our everyday life, the question arises: how well are we prepared for its effects? We will be confronted with more frequent and intense heat waves in the near future, which will especially challenge the citizens of bigger cities.
Filed Under: 52°North, GSoC Tagged With: Citizen Science, envirocar, flutter, GSoC, GSoC 2022
enviroCar is a citizen science community that gathers, distributes and analyses floating automobile data for traffic management and environmental purposes. The enviroCar app for mobile devices offers functions including track recording, track exploration, and track uploading as “open data” to the server for analysis. Real-time information about the recorded tracks, including their length and distance, is also provided.
Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, enviroCar, GSoC Tagged With: 52°North, Android, envirocar, Google Summer of Code, GSoC 2022
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.
This year in Google Summer of Code 2022, the goal of the enviroCar App: Voice Command project was to provide a better user-friendly experience by automating the actions of the enviroCar Android application using voice commands. I have worked on various goals of the project which you can read about in my previous blogs. In my final blog post, I want to present the outcomes of the project, which have been achieved over the last 12 weeks.