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Awesome. If you dont mind me asking, what sort of dashboarding/visualization software do you use? Highchart homebrewn web apps? Some closed source auto software? What's that world look like? Always been curious about it from a front-end perspective.

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Real time data is fed into an InfluxDB instance and shown on Grafana hosted on the ground station. This data is downsampled to cope with the volume of raw traffic. We also tried some solutions used by other teams like KX [0] but decided to go with a FOSS stack. A post processing pipeline converts original data to a however proprietary format used by AEMdata [1], a proprietary data analysis tool from our ECU vendor and used somewhat commonly in the racing scene.

[0]: https://code.kx.com/dashboards/

[1]: https://www.aemelectronics.com/products/software-aemnet/aemd...

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