Automotive BlackBox
BroadBit releases and offers new, industry level automotive black-box (OBU: On Board Unit) for recording driving statistics and event details!
The Automotive Black Box has following hardware features:
- GPS sensor, sampling position at every second. Logged GPS data includes time information, vehicle position, vehicle speed, and GPS signal quality data (HDOP and number of satellites)
- 3-axis accelerometer, sampling acceleration 50 times per second
- Ignition input, which synchronizes unit power to ignition status so that start-up is automated and battery is not drained during days/weeks of standstill
- Rugged metallic casing and automotive input connectors
- Bluetooth radio for communicating logged data
- Internal flash memory, data processing, and statistics generation
Log reporting process may be started manually or automatically in the proximity of a reporting terminal. Provided Java based reporting applications can run on PCs, laptops, smart-phones, or PDAs. In the context of electronic tolling, this allows to set up auto-reporting terminals at:
- Freight forwarder home bases
- Petrol stations
- Border crossings
Complementing server application visualizes reported log data:
- Intuitive user interface allows querying events of interest or road utilization statistics
- Enforcement data can be visualized on a map segment
- Longitudinal and Lateral acceleration are graphically charted
Demo interface: broadbit.com
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