Presentation of Phone Star team

1. Turning Ordinary Cars into Smart Cars
Ciaran Hannigan
Justin Danielson
Florida State University

2. • In 1996, The US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) made it
mandatory for all vehicles to use a
standardized set of diagnostic
codes.
• These codes can provide a wide
array of information about the
current state of the vehicle.
• Examples include: Vehicle speed,
RPMs, and the vehicle's
identification number.

3. • There are four categories of DTC’s.
• Powertrain
• Body
• Chassis
• Network
• Body codes can be used to query sensors for
airbag deployment.
• The US EPA regulations required specific body
codes to be supported on all makes and models.

5.  When the service is
activated the phone will
respond with an alert
system if any of the
DTCs that pertain to
airbag deployment have
been triggered.

6.  If the user doesn’t respond in a given timeout
period we will text message emergency
contacts with GPS coordinates.
 Call emergency contacts and put the phone on
speaker phone.

7. • onStar is our leading competitor.
• Only available on GMC vehicles since
September 2005.
• Even if the vehicle is equipped with the service
you must subscribe in order to use it.
• They offer two plans:
– Safe & Sound: $18.95/month
– Directions & Connections: $28.90/month

8. • An introductory price of $79.99 as well as an
optional monthly charge of $5.
• This includes the application along with a OBD-
II Bluetooth enabled device.
• The $5 monthly price will allow for phoneStar
user access to premium content. This includes
travel assistance and vehicle diagnostic reports
upon requests.

9. • Since our application is compatible with vehicles
dating back to 1996, our customer base is huge!
• According to the US Bureau of Transit Statistics
for 2006 there are just under 251M registered
passenger vehicles.
• Our current implementation is on the android
OS, however any Bluetooth enabled phone can
use this technology.

10.  We used a 2000 Honda Civic for the
demonstration.
 Used RPMs as our trigger to set off the alert
system.
 Video has no sound.

11.  Adding support for EOBD.
 Android Dash