Inspiration
cars are unused; cities are overfilled by them; still nobody wants to share his car; car-renter don't know what they would get
What it does
solve the problem of "trust" between the customer and the provider through reliable objective data collected from BMW cars
How we built it
Java Web Application with asynchronous and RESTful services to collect real-time data from BMW cars
Challenges we ran into
infrastructure setup (database, webserver, deployment); unclear data model
Accomplishments that we're proud of
established connection via both REST and MQTT
What we learned
usage of MQTT; leveraging of team members with very different backgrounds
What's next for BMW TrustNow
*build business model based on gamification (incentives for drivers and owners) *targeting based on user preferences and route *segmented marketing based on collected data