I am working on a race car data logging/telemetry system for amateur racers. It comprises a single board computer mounted in the vehicle which is connected to the pit team via a pair of HaLowLink 1’s.
The SBC currently interfaces with the vehicle’s canbus and a low cost RTK GNSS module. I plan to add an IMU and other race type sensors in the near future.
The SBC publishes the data simultaneously to a local influx time series database instance and an mqtt broker. At the pit end, there is a replicated influx db instance and it is also running grafana so we can show both live data straight from the mqtt and historical data from the database.
Our next endurance race is in April and I hope to have everything installed and tested in the car by then. I am excited to see how the HaLowLink 1 performs in this environment.
Once it is sorted I plan to open source the project with the aim to provide a viable option for amateur racers to have ‘professional-like’ telemetry systems at a reasonable cost.
This sounds like a great project. I actually joined Morse after a friend tried using a pair of not-quite-HaLow bridges to connect the RaceCapture in our LeMons car.
I would expect much better results from Morse radios, but have been too busy to get back to the track. My goal is to fix that in May, at least one team has expressed interest in trying it at Thunderhill.
oh cool sounds good! yes we are doing the BEERS over here in West Aus (budget extreme endurance racing series) which I think is very similar to LeMons.
Hi Identify9338,
I love that you’re already testing our Wi-Fi HaLow devices in this exciting use case.
Given your obvious enthusiasm for breakthroughs with Wi-Fi HaLow, I’m going to send you two more Halowlink 1 devices, so that you can continue to test and learn with us.
Please send me an email to andy.mcfarlane@morsemicro.com with your shipping details and I’ll arrange to get these devices to you as soon as possible.
Regards,
Andy Mc
