RideMate

Geolocation and AR based ride sharing app where passengers can seek drivers and drivers passengers using tokens

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Inspiration

  • Recent expanse and interest in AR technology
  • Major concern about the the advancement of smart cities and the environment
  • We all hate congestion

What it does

RideMate is a geolocation based ride sharing app developed at TechCrunch Disrupt 17. Passengers can seek drivers and drivers can seek passengers to share their trip on a basis of what we call "token transactions" to replace real money transactions! (Instead of earning money, you earn tokens you can use to be driven by other users later, in practice reducing your costs of driving by half) Users can use AR to facilitate the meetup (especially in crowded places like techcrunch :)). The latter can visualize the risks in their route thanks to Arity Risk Index API. During the trip, driving data is collected through the Arity Driving Engine SDK and is used for evaluating the driver's performance. All mapping and routings use MapQuest iOS SDK and APIs.

The broader vision and goal is to solve major issues in the advancement of smart cities, which includes reducing congestion by promoting safety proof shared rides and the consequent reduction in C02 emissions and environmental impact.

Funding Ideas

  • Payed Token Premium Features
  • Adverts
  • Additional Premium Packages

Used APIs & SDKs

Arity Driving Engine SDK Arity Risk Index API (Arity Mobility trends API) MapQuest iOS SDK MapQuest Geolocation API MapQuest Route API Nexmo SMS API Apple AR API

This project is based on the sample project for Arity Driving Engine SDK.

Requirements

iOS 11 iPhone 6S or newer (including iPhone SE) Using emulators are not encouraged

Installation

Before running the project, run pod install To running backend, install Flask and run by python main.py

Challenges we ran into

  • Problems around AR GPS signal (not really good inside the PIER but great outside.. we can prove it :p)
  • Mapquest IOS SDK for route tracing
  • Arity Driving Engine SDK hard to mock custom data

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Most of us learnt IOS development from scratch
  • we have genuinely not hardcoded anything (except in the case of lacking data from SDK)

What we learned

  • too many good things

What's next for RideMate

  • the app is really horizontal, so scalability with other APIs is a go !

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