inovex GmbH: Setting up a crowd remote sensing app
Self-description of the partner
Enabling Your Digital Future - As an IT service provider, we enable our customers to be successful on the digital playing field - strategically, technologically and methodically. To this end, we have established an integrated portfolio of services under one roof, which we use to make companies fit for the digital future. Over 450 IT experts provide companies with comprehensive support in the digitalization and agilization of their core business and in the implementation of new digital use cases. Our range of solutions includes application development (web platforms, mobile apps, edge & embedded - from UI/UX design to backend services), data management & analytics (business intelligence, big data, search, data science, artificial intelligence) and the development of scalable IT infrastructures (IT engineering, cloud services) on which digital solutions are operated in DevOps mode. We modernize existing solutions (replatforming), harden systems against external attacks (security) and impart our knowledge through training courses and workshops (inovex Academy).
Challenge: Development of a crowd remote sensing app
As part of the project, a concept and the basic functionalities of a crowd remote sensing app are to be developed.
The app should classify regions on a map based on information transmitted by users. One use case could be crowd-based hazard detection and the associated safe route planning. However, other scenarios such as animal observations or environmental pollution are also conceivable. Future users of the app should not only consume the information (consumer), but also make it available (information provider), i.e. as soon as a user makes a relevant observation in the immediate vicinity, the app informs them.
immediate surroundings, the app informs them about it. The app can be built based on Tile38, an open-source, in-memory geodatabase.
Aim of the challenge
The app should only collect overlaps of geographical areas (grid coordinates) and evaluate them in order to identify potentially relevant regions. The anonymity/security of the users, both the consumers and the information providers, as well as the trustworthiness of the transmitted data play a central role. This includes technical, conceptual as well as social science issues that students have to work on.
Provision of data & infrastructure
The data will be made available via an open source database Tile38. Should a need for further infrastructure arise in the course of the project, this can be discussed again on a case-by-case basis.
Expected skills of teachers and students
Programming experience is recommended for the technical skills. In all other areas, the desire and motivation to familiarize yourself with the project and work on the challenge is sufficient.
Project duration
One or two semesters.