Real Time Tracker + Info Display

• I wanted to have data on my family driving habits: how much we drive every week, how traffic affects our most frequent trips or how does the actual trip duration compares to google maps estimates. I also wanted to have as much data displayed while I'm driving on top of checking on a dashboard later on. An in-car display allows also to check my acceleration on a g-chart to avoid too much g-force on the passengers ;) (reduce nervous driving habit)
• Other usage: track my biking trips, track the kid location / activity...
• This system allow to not only track any asset (vehicle, person) with real time display of location and speed by just logging in into a website, but also it has 2 additional features:

1- Display travel info on the screen:

Current speed

Average speed

Travel time

Traveled distance

Stopped time(e.g. traffic light)

Current acceleration display (g-chart)

Extra info: time, battery charge, number of satellites, cellular signal strength…

2- Data is uploaded to a private server for storage in a time series database (InfluxDB) and it can be used for display, analytics and alerting using a dashboard (Grafana)

Three other important features:

• Enhanced power saving strategy with wake up on motion and auto sleep using the accelerometer to detect motion/rest.
• Remote control with Particle’s app to change settings (like updating the frequency of data sync) and get status (battery charge, tracking status).
• Simple interface for basic manual control: click on the screen (which in turn press a push-button under it):

- resume/pause tracking. (1 click)

- sleep mode: resumes on motion detection. (2 clicks)

- power off mode: push on reset button to turn on again. (3 clicks)