Peter Restall wrote:
> So am I.  In 2007-8 I was working with a company doing very similar things 
> but
> for commercial customers - ie. fleet management.

Are you at liberty to say which company you worked for?

We work with fleet management companies all the time, since it's a lot more 
cost effective for them to buy an off-the-shelf OBD interface and modify it, 
than to roll their own. In 2008 we also built our own ECU simulator, since 
the stuff that is out there is either too complicated and costs an arm and a 
leg, or is junk.


> Basically we had some
> trackers with CAN and OBD support and were attempting to pull out figures 
> for
> fuel consumption, etc. as well as produce immobiliser functions for 
> anti-theft
> and a whole host of other goodies on top of the basic 'where's my truck ?'
> package.  We had stuff like Dallas iButtons for driver ID so we can 
> monitor
> individual working time, drivng patterns, etc.  Unfortunately that company
> went bust before it got a full product to market, but it was certainly in 
> the
> advanced stages.  Definitely one of the best places I've worked in terms 
> of
> interesting projects.

Sounds cool. Why do you think the company went bust? VC dried up?

Vitaliy 

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