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PiRail: Data Simulation and Visualization

PiRail is a budget friendly device that performs data collection using single-board computers, low-cost sensors, and open-source software. The goal of PiRail is to monitor railway infrastructure with improved efficiency and analysis to provide students with hands-on experience in research and innovation and to promote further research into technology that would greatly benefit the railroad industry. This year’s project scope is to develop a working mobile user interface that collects and simulates data, displays a railway map, and displays the user’s location in real time along with live and simulated sensor data. The simulator integration is important for application testing and data playback. Using json files, you are able to upload previously collected data to the application allowing for data analysis post working in the field. Mobile viewing and flexible display are another aspect we focus on as a user will be in the field on a tablet or phone or performing data analysis on a laptop or desktop. Modernizing the user interface so the home page resembles common mapping navigation applications helps our users feel comfortable, easily able to pick up the controls, and reduce the overall learning curve of a new application. In addition, our group heavily emphasizes user testing to implement feedback. This emphasis helps us improve functionality, ease of use, and overall performance of the PiRail application.

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