food truck notification service (lightning talk)
DESCRIPTION
This Lightning talk describes an interesting use case for the notification service of FME Server. Food trucks that deliver fresh meals to business districts drive the same routes every day but arrive at their defined stops at different times. By sending the trucks GPS position to FME Sever via a mobile phone, notifications can be send to all subscribers of a pre-defined FME Server service once the truck enters a specific area. The notification message includes the daily menu information or special offerings of the food truck.TRANSCRIPT
CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
Waiting has finally come to an end…
Christian Heisigcon terra GmbH, Germany
FME Server Notification Service
The Problem The Solution Solution Ingredients
High Speed Communication The Workflow
Demo Current Project Status Opportunities
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!
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
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
High Speed Communication
WebSockets Web protocol with direct communication via TCP Bidirectional real time data exchange possible Initial protocol handshake HTML5 technology
The Workflow
Permanent transmissionof 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)
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
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…
Waiting has finally come to an end…
Horn signals are so much yesterday…
Thank You!
Any Questions?
For more information:Christian Heisig, con terra GmbH
Twitter: [email protected]
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