Three of our colleagues had the crazy idea to participate in The Barrel Challenge, a six-day trip through Europe in a classic car. Over more than 3000 km, they traversed steep hills and snowy mountain passes, facing cold and other unexpected weather conditions. We wouldn't be Codit if we didn't equip the car with various sensors and connect these to the cloud. We were able to track it at any moment and see its position, temperature, altitude and various other parameters. During this session, we will tell you the story on how we connected this car and give you a behind-the-curtain view on the technical architecture. Technologies that will be discussed are : Azure IoT, Edge connectivity, Stream Analytics and SignalR.

1. 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

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

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

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

8. The connectivity
challenge
Retrofitting is key
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9. 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

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

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

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

14. The visibility part
Real time portal updates
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15. The portal
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16. 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

18. Stitching it all together
Serverless, event driven
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19. 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

20. Stream Analytics queries
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21. 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