SmartTaxi

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Inspiration

The inspiration came to us not in a easy way. We discuss about what to do for more than 4 hours. However, we was thinking in two things Iot and transport and finally we got the idea, SmartTaxi.

What it does

The basic idea is to make more efficient the movements of taxis. The less they drive to get a client the less they make ecological footprint. With an Android app the taxi driver can collect data about where he has got a client. The data is shared in a database, Thingtia cloud. Finally with a web page the agency that manages the taxis' flow can know where they have to send the taxis becaus they know where the people tends to get a taxi.

How we built it

We have developed an Android App to get data from taxis and know where and when they collect a client. It shares the information with a database offered by OpenTrends, Thingtia cloud. In this database it's easy to store data from sensors and manage diferent types of them. Next we have a web page developed with PHP, javascript, html and css where we manage all the data that we recollect. With the api of googlemaps and heatmap we show the zones of the cities where the people tends to get a taxi.

Challenges we ran into

Develop a project related with Iot and smartcities. We have deal with the api of Sentilo based in REST interfaces and thingtia cloud. We have develop a functional Android App and webpage.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of our capacity of sharing work and work together in this project

What we learned

We learned about REST calls, make http requests from Android, Google maps api and the most important be patient and don't become crazy without sleeping and fixing issues.