Deploying Connected Vehicle Starter Kit

Cloud Based Smart Applications Management
(Case Study of AB Pty. Ltd Delivery System)
Executive Summary

A truck delivery system has to be updated for the better services. In this
method they have to improve the service quality and the efficiency of the
delivery to a maximum extent. The company has some zone and they
have to delivery in the zones in time and update the users. The delivery
direction has been divided into four ways and this task has been further carried
out by the NODE-RED function node. The number of deliveries must be
increased as many as possible with the existing trucks. Finally, by the use
of NODE-RED a visual dashboard is created which helps in increasing the
speed Gauge and the speed chart system of a certain delivery vehicle.
Contents

1. Introduction....................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Cloud Computing based services with Blue mix...........................................5
Description to the problem:................................................................................5
1.3 Solution to the Problem................................................................................5
1.4 Aim............................................................................................................... 6
1.5 Objectives..................................................................................................... 6
1.6 Project Plan................................................................................................... 6
2. Bluemix Smart app development and Telemetry.............................................6
2.1 Blue Mix: App build requirement..................................................................7
Step 1. Blue mix: IoT service instance creation...............................................8
Step 2. Configuration of the IoT Foundation.................................................11
2.4 Telemetry using BlueMix Smart app..............................................................12
Step 3. Deployment and Configuration of connected through vehicle starter
kit using Bluemix........................................................................................... 12
Step 4. Geospatial analytics service using analytics....................................14
Step 5. Tester Application............................................................................15
Step 5. Tester Application............................................................................15
Step 6. Creation of Node-RED analytics application based system...............15
3. Justification...................................................................................................... 18
4. Difficulties and Challenges..............................................................................22
Private cloud services....................................................................................... 22
5. Conclusion....................................................................................................... 22
6. References....................................................................................................... 23
7. Appendix.......................................................................................................... 24
Starting with the Watson IoT Platform.............................................................25
Before you begin......................................................................................... 25
About this task............................................................................................ 26
Step 1: Connect your devices..................................................................26
Step 2: Analyze your device data...........................................................27
Step 3: Create applications to consume your device data.............27

1. Introduction
A truck delivery system has to be updated for the better services. In this method
they have to improve the service quality and the efficiency of the delivery to a
maximum extent. The company has some zone and they have to delivery in the
zones in time and update the users. The number of deliveries must be increased
as many as possible with the existing trucks. The delivery direction has been
divided into four ways and this task has been further carried out by the NODE-
RED function node (Dillon, Wu, and Chang, 2010).
Here the application is done with the Bluemix software. Bluemix belongs to IBM
Company. The Bluemix is a cloud platform. In this cloud they use PaaS as
service. They use PaaS for building the application, then for running the
application and finally managing the application on the cloud. To simulate the
connected vehicles a smart app is to be developed. For performing this task

Bluemix is used. IBM has helped in developing this cloud platform. This helps in
supporting for the production of
services to the system and
integrated DevOps
for designing, building, running, implementation and following of the applications
that are present in the cloud. Cloud Foundry open technology is the
technology upon which the Bluemix is based.
1.1 Cloud Computing based services with Blue mix
Bluemix support the many programming languages and services. They also use
the integrated development apps for building the applications, running
application and maintaining the application. The Bluemix is generally a cloud
foundry, which is a open technology run on the basis of soft layer infrastructure.
Bluemix supports many of the programming languages like Modems, JAVA, Swift,
Python, etc... The Bluemix from IBM is a cloud platform which helps to solve the
realistic problems and runs the business applications, infrastructures and the
services. The services can be integrated in this with the infrastructure and data
readily stored ( Zhou, Zhang, Xie, Qian, and Zho, 2010). It manages your
business data and scales your business data. It simplifies the business and the
data will be helpful to understand the problem, to reason it out for learning.
Standards of Cloud computing
Many companies like the IBM Blue cloud technology provides the cloud
computing service. Linking of the computers of all system can be done which is
based upon the open standards and the open source software.
Description to the problem:
The main problem faced by the companies are, they are not able to deliver the
order in time making the customers unsatisfied by the late deliveries. Increase in
the demands of the product has made the company face many problems which
initially leads to the delayed delivery of the services making the queue for
delivery much more longer. This makes the trucks to deliver 3 times a day
instead of 5 times a day.
1.3 Solution to the Problem
Solution to the problem can be provided by the use of software applications.
These applications can help in tracking the status of the delivery vehicles.
Initially this will help in updating the status on the system thereby helping in
giving instructions to the delivery vehicles according to the current status of the

system which is detected by the application. This can help in saving the time as
well as the increase in accessibility.
1.4 Aim
Aim of the project is to create a cloud based system. It will be synthesized using
simulation environment. It is created using IBM Blue Mix for smart application
and to design in cloud based environment.
1.5 Objectives
Analysis of the problem faced by the business
For the simulation of the problem a cloud based application is to be deployed.
Designing of a Node-RED based visual tool for debugging of the telemetry data
from the simulation result
1.6 Project Plan
The main focus of the project is to develop the software applications. This project
is based upon the development of the smart applications that can help the
company for the easy tracking of the delivery vehicles. IBM BlueMix provides the
essential facilities for the designing of the applications. The system facility is
provided by IBM Blue Mix in order to design the application. Besides this
designing of a strong database has been done for the purpose of recording the
status according to the date and the time. Setting of the AB Truck scheduling
system for handling purpose of different types of products and for creating a
connection between them using the smart application for vehicles.
2. Bluemix Smart app development and Telemetry
Deploying and extending of the Internet of Things (IoT) on BlueMix helps in
carrying out of the task. The Bluemix will allow choosing the correct model for
your work for the correct work load. There are many workloads. In which specific
work load must use its specific applications. And hence Bluemix will help to
choose the correct compute model for the workload. Bluemix has a power to
provide service to any workload. Vehicle simulator, html5 applications are
included in the vehicle kit for the management of the vehicles on the map and
the Bluemix’s
geospatial analytics service along with Node-RED for analytics
(Dillon, Wu, and Chang, 2010).

Here the application is done with the blue mix software. Blue mix belongs to IBM
company. The blue mix is a cloud platform; in this cloud they use PsaS service.
They use PaaS for building the application, then for running the application and
finally managing the application on the cloud. Blue mix support the many
programming languages and services. They also use the integrated development
apps for building the applications, running application and maintaining the
application (Yang and Chen, 2010). The blue mix is generally a cloud foundry,
which is an open technology run on the basis of soft layer infrastructure. Blue
mix supports many of the programming languages like Nodes, JAVA, Swift,
Python, etc... The Blue mix from IBM is a cloud platform which helps to solve the
realistic problems and runs the business applications, infrastructures and the
services. The services can be integrated in this with the infrastructure and data
readily stored. It manages your business data and scales your business data. It
simplifies the business and the data will be helpful to understand the problem, to
reason it out for learning.
2.1 Blue Mix: App build requirement
For linking with the given ID a Blue mix account and a service account is used.
2.2 Layout and components of smart app
Fig 1: Layout of Smart App Design

The time factor also must be kept in mind in this process. The time is very crucial
in the transportation field. As the time is running the delivery must be also
delivered to the users without fail. The products delivered also must be correct
without any confusion. In some cases the wrong products will be delivered, so
such confusion must be avoided. If the wrong products were delivered then
company must take the complete responsibility for the correct product to be
delivered. During this time what might happen is the product delivery time will
be double or triple. Because the first product is wrong product and then must
return it back and load the new product again. Hence the second new correct
product must be loaded and send to user. In this process again the end user
must acknowledge the correct product (Zhang, Zhang, Chen, and Huo, 2010).
The fuel charges and the driver charges also doubled which is loss to the any
company. Hence the loading of the correct product is always necessary. This will
in turn saves the time and improves the efficiency of the company. To avoid all
these problems, we must develop an app to improve the truck delivery system.
The vehicle numbers, driver and other staff names with the product details along
with the source address and the destination address also included as a database
management. The contact details of the destinations are also included with the
tracking details provided for both servers and the customers. The tracking
details will help both of them to solve most of the problems because if any wrong
product is loaded initially that can be detected. So this will save both money and
time.
The data can be brought together with the help of cloud and make the multiple
data in a single stream for the service aspects. The is a very quick process and
an inexpensive way. This is a cutting edge technology for the IT and software
industry for the data management in an efficient manner (Peng, Zhang, Lei,
Zhang, Zhang, and Li, 2009). There 3 critical ways in which the hybrid Bluemix
cloud delivers. Once upon a time the blue mix is a cost saving process but now it
is an innovative process also. This will help the organisation to integrate its data,
its applications and their services in a best way. The workloads also managed in
a proper way. This makes many applications portable. It also has the capability
to change the pace of the business. The choice of the development is given 3
different ways, they are compute the way for instant scalability in the public,
performance of the dedicated services and the control of the local. Some of the
readymade products and the services discussed below. Initially the data and the
applications used to run on the servers. Then the virtual servers were introduced