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funCharge is an interactive and responsive web application which makes it fun for EV owners to charge their vehicles. The application uses various APIs to provide most efficient route, while listing and ranking options of charging stations and recreational activities that commuters can meanwhile engage in, emergency contacts to keep them safe, etc.

Contents

  1. Short description
  2. Demo video
  3. Medium Article
  4. Architecture
  5. Live demo
  6. Built with
  7. Authors
  8. License

Short Description

What's the problem?

Electrical Vehicles are very good for environment but entails a very annoying problem of charging, rather than wasting time while car is charging you could spend that time in recreational activities which maybe nearby your charging station.

How can technology help?

With our technology you can optimally decide when you should charge your car along with recommendation of charging stations based on nearby recreational activities or places.

The idea

funCharge directly traces trajectory and possible charging station you can reach with given charge then compares them based on recreational activities nearby.

Demo Video

Video

Medium Article

Medium

Architecture

  1. IBM Watson provides assitance to the user as funCharge as it helps him/her guide through different features and functionalities
  2. User accesses the domain using Heroku services
  3. Heroku executes nodeJS to render the website
  4. HERE Map API (funCharge) sends information about distances and routing along with locations nearby which are critical to optimal decisions.
  5. Custom Helpline API : implemented using sqlite3, API strictly follows CRUD principles and provides various helplines based on country name.

Live Demo

You can find a running system to test at funcharge.herokuapp.com

Built With

Authors

License

This prject is licensed under the BSD 3 License - see the LICENSE file for details.