Discover how the Innoptus Solar team won the 3000km Bridgestone World Solar Challenge while using Marple to optimise their strategy.
Innoptus Solar Team, a group of 20 engineering students who design and build a solar car every two years to compete in international solar races.
The team needs to monitor and analyze the data collected from their solar car during the races, such as speed, motor temperature, battery level, solar panel power, and weather conditions. The data is crucial for their battery management strategy, which determines how fast and how far they can drive without depleting their energy source. The team also needs to visualize the data in an easy-to-understand way, to make informed decisions during the race and improve their performance.
The team uses Marple, a data analysis platform for engineering teams, to store, process, and display their solar car data. Marple allows them to connect to their self-written monitoring program, which collects data from the car's sensors and sends it to the cloud. Marple then transforms the data into interactive charts and dashboards, which the team can access from any device. Marple also enables the team to explore the data with SQL queries, filters, and calculations, to gain deeper insights and optimize their strategy.
By using Marple, the team can: