Future Transit Now
Holistic Vehicle Tracking System
Adam Elliott, Taylor Kinsella, Matthew Lillywhite, Christopher McNeil
Agenda
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Introduction
Proof of Concept
Where the idea came from
Major Components
Recommendations
Conclusions
Questions & Answers
References
Introduction
• Holistic Vehicle Tracking System
– Adam Elliott
• Database Management
– Christopher McNeil
• Web Development
– Matthew Lillywhite
• Infrastructure
– Taylor Kinsella
Proof of Concept
• Hardware capable of tracking geographical
position and sending over cellular network
• Server capable of accepting data send from
hardware and log into database
• Web server used by transit customers to
query database
• Plotted on interactive google map
• Login registration and favourite route
• Password encryption / best practices
Where Did the Idea Originate?
• All Calgary Public Transit users can relate
• Inconsistent scheduling times
• Weather deterred
Major Project Components
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Server, services and virtualization
Network, routing and port forwarding
Hardware module (Arduino)
Website development
Database development & selection
Server
HP ProLiant DL380 G7
• Hardware RAID
• Virtualization
• Windows Server 2012
• Uninterruptable
Power Supply
• Management
• iLO
Server rack with UPS
Services
Member Server
• IIS 7
• PHP & Python parser
• MySQL Database
Domain Controller
• DNS
• Active Directory Domain Services
• GPO
Virtualization Software
VMWare Vsphere ESXi 5.1
• Bare Metal Hyper Visor
• VMWare Vclient
http://www.vmware.com
Networking / Routing
D-Link Linksys
• DD-WRT
• Access Controls
• DHCP
http://www.linksys.com/en-ca
Port Forwarding
• Port 80
• Port 3343
• Port 3379
• SSH
Hardware Module
Arduino
• Arduino Uno R3
• Arduino Mega 2560
Arduino Mega 2560
Hammod Case
Modules
• Adafruit Ultimate GPS
Breakout V3
• SM5100b GSM Shield
Hardware Module
Arduino Uno R3
Arduino Mega 2560 Bread Board
Website Development
Proj354 Portal
• Simplistic
• Galleria
• Single point of resources
http://www.php.net
Transit Buddy
• Responsive (percent-based CSS)
• PHP interaction with MySQL database
• Hosted via IIS 7
• Integrated Google map
Website Development
Website Performance test
http://www.gtmetrix.com
Website Development
Transit Buddy with Integrated Google Map
Database Development
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Microsoft SQL
My SQL
Microsoft Access
Calgary Transit .CSV imports
Salting and hashing
Database Development
Database Design
Recommendations
• Device be duplicated and field tested using a
single route by Calgary Transit.
• Arduino Mega to a “Teensy” development
board
• Circuit boards and programming chips on a
larger scale
• Script to update database daily to show
which busses are servicing which routes.
• Moving to C++ or C#
Conclusions
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Proof of concept
6 million line database
Arduino module with GPS and GSM
Responsive web design (CSS)
Integrated google map
Use of PHP and python
MySQL over MS SQL
Questions & Answers
References
• http://www.calgarytransit.com/html/annual_ridership.html
• http://www.calgarytransit.com/html/statistics.html
• http://transitcamp.ca/2013/10/13/candidate-responsesinnovative-ideas-and-the-role-of-transit/
• http://www.nextbus.com/
• http://hosted.fleetcomplete.com/01_start.html
• http://www.gpspolice.com/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20121105140753/http://jayes
hprojects.blogspot.ca/2010/04/real-time-mobile-gpstracker-with.html
• https://data.calgary.ca/OpenData/Pages/DatasetListingAlph
abetical.aspx#C