How to connect a 30-year old car
to the cloud
Connecting is everything
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At Codit, we believe connecting is everything
...including a 30 year old car
GDPR

Meet our team
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Meet Isabelle... The Red Escort
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That became Barry, the blue Barrel.

Joining the Barrell Challenge
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3500 km
30 year old car
Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy & Slovenia
3rd place, on 250 teams

This talk
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The Car
(retro fitting)
The Backend
(serverless, event-driven)
The Portal
(real time visualization)

The connectivity
challenge
Retrofitting is key
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Off the shelve components
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| Grove PI starter kit

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Car connectivity
| Raspberry PI 3 (and 2 as backup)
| Windows 10 IoT Core
| GrovePi sensor kit
| Sensors available
| Light (GPIO)
| Sound (GPIO)
| Temperature (GPIO)
| Humidity (GPIO)
| GPS (Serial port) + extra long antenna
| MiFI with data SIM for cloud connectivity
| <60MB / week

Nebulus as cloud managed IoT Gateway
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| Connect everything, built on Azure IoT Edge

Connectivity
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Assuming stable cloud connectivity will not work out well
in tunnels and on mountain passes

Patch & update
We were able to patch a bug remotely,
without the team having to be involved

The visibility part
Real time portal updates
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The portal
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The portal
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Real time map update
| Leveraged SignalR for real time, integrated portal updates
| Angular 5 based
| Typescript
| DotnetCore
| Ngrx (RxJs support!) for state subscriptions
| Map control: Leaflet (free, but feature rich)
| PolyLine : plot array of GPS locations
| Calculation of total route

Stitching it all together
Serverless, event driven
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The overview
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| Azure IoT Hub routes
| Route telemetry events to
Service Bus Topics
| Route straight to Azure
Stream Analytics job
| Functions to write to table
storage (archiving)
| Functions to call SignalR
API
| Stream analytics to
calculate aggregates, using
time windowing
| Container deployment of
web site, through VSTS

Stream Analytics queries
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About Codit
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2000 Belgium
2004 France
2013 Portugal
2016 Switzerland
2016 UK
2016 The Netherlands
2017 Malta
165
worldwide

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Microsoft reference case:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/iot/2018/02/20/codit-
connects-microsoft-iot-30-year-old-car-3500-km-
relay/
Codit blog post:
https://www.codit.eu/blog/2018/03/12/codit-s-
connected-car-taking-a-look-under-the-hood/
Open sourced code:
https://github.com/CoditEU/connected-car
Barrell challenge:
https://www.thebarrelchallenge.nl/
More info:
Check the car at our booth