Ask HN: What kind of data would be interesting coming from our expedition car?
Together with my girlfriend I’m traveling with an electric car from the Netherlands to South Africa and back, charging the car with solar panels we have in the car (11kWp). We are currently in Morocco.
With the help of 3 partners we are getting an enormous amount of data out of the car via the OBD port of the car pushed to different servers. If you can think of it, it is probably an paramater that is measured, liked G-force meter, if we buckled up, cellular reception of the car and so on. What more data would be nice, beside the obvious like we already have on our website (SOC, altitude, speed and soon windspeed (we have an anemometer on the car) and direction), to show on our website? And what combination of data would be interesting to analyse?
At the moment one of our partners is making this dashboard with the help of students. We are allowed, to a certain extent, to share datasets, if you would be interested to play with it.
Soon we will share more facts and figures about our expedition after the dashboard is set.
Website: www.4x4electric.com/dashboard
Thanks!
Maarten