This document describes a solution built using FME Server to notify hungry employees when a food truck has arrived at their office. The food truck company shares its location data over a websocket connection to FME Server. An FME workspace compares the truck's location to defined stop zones and triggers the notification service to alert employees via email or Twitter when the truck is nearby. The system is currently in beta testing and the presenter envisions expanding it to include more food trucks, routes, and customers.

1. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
Waiting has finally come to an end…
Christian Heisig
con terra GmbH, Germany

2. FME Server Notification Service
 The Problem
 The Solution
 Solution Ingredients
 High Speed Communication
 The Workflow
 Demo
 Current Project Status
 Opportunities

3. The Problem
 Hungry People at our Offices every day…
 Food Truck Fleet with…
 different Routes and
 defined Stops in Münster
 +/- 15 minutes time frame for each Stop
 The Food Truck‘s horn indicates its arrival
 Hungry Colleagues swarm to the Truck…
…provided they hear the Horn!

4. The Solution
 Replace the Sound of the Horn by a Notification
Service
 FME Server comes into play!
 Agreement with the Food Truck Company
 FME Server Notification Service PoC

5. Solution Ingredients
 Web App based on con terra‘s map.apps
 FME Server (receiver and notifier)
 Predefined Workspace
 Notification Service
 A GPS smartphone and an App (sender)
 FME Report App first…
 …our own specialized App later

6. High Speed Communication
 WebSockets
 Web protocol with direct communication via TCP
 Bidirectional real time data exchange possible
 Initial protocol handshake
 HTML5 technology

7. The Workflow
Permanent transmission
of the food truck position
via WebSocket protocol (JSON)
WebSocket Server
FME Workspace runs permanently
WebSocketReceiver
listens to WebSocket Server
Storage of truck positions
in the database
Comparison of the current
truck position and the stop zones
Truck position (WebSocketSender)
Notification of the clients
(Notification Service)

8. Demo

9. Current Project Status
 Beta Test running (con terra internally)
 Web Application shows the current Truck Position in
Real Time
 Registration for Notifications via E-Mail or Twitter
(Message)
 What‘s next?
 Include other Companies
 Adding more Trucks / more Routes
 Find more interested Customers

10. Lot‘s of Opportunities
 Many, many use cases are out there…
 Really easy to build similar solutions
 Solution based on standard technology
 FME Server
 map.apps
 No coding is needed!
 FME Cloud!
 Subscription models…

11. Waiting has finally come to an end…
Horn signals are so much yesterday…

12. Thank You!
 Any Questions?
 For more information:
Christian Heisig, con terra GmbH
Twitter: CHatCT
fme@conterra.de
www.conterra.de
www.mapapps.de
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