Connected everything (Scooter)

As you probably know, I have been working on a demo around the concept of the Connected Car.
Therefore, I'm interested in everything around this concept.

Yamaha, teaming with Vodafone Automotive is going to sell connected scooter.

see here: Connected TMAX

Oracle Intelligent Chatbot MOOC

In the (not so much) spare time, I decided to attend to the Oracle Chatbot MOOC.

It has been not so difficult, since I had already an high-level understanding of what is a Chatbot and how our Chatbot (part of Oracle Mobile Enteprise Cloud) is made and working.

But anyway, as always, a MooC takes time, requires coding.

It was useful, tough and in some moments fun.

Have a look at the series of well-crafted video on Youtube, created by my collegues, on the features
of our Mobile Cloud Platform and Intelligent Chatbot.

Here it is.

FUEL_RATE not supported

One of the main features for this project was to be able to calculate the fuel consumption for each trip.
At the beginning I thought it was easy. Every car shows on the display the fuel consumption rate and, probably, it is reliable.
But, it turned out that, at least for now on my Car (a BMW X1) FUEL_RATE and FUEL_LEVEL are not provided (supported) from the OBDII interface.
Even if, if you look at the documentation on Wikipedia, there are the code for reading these parameters.
At the end, I have been able to estimate the gasoline usage starting from the Air Flow Rate (MAF). I'll try to dig a little deeper on the subject.