cARFleet: A mobile application for vehicle fleet visualization based on augmented reality and open data

Abstract

Currently, due to ease of acquisition of mobile devices and their increasing processing power and storage, many applications in various areas and services have been developed. With access to information held by Internet, many data and research institutions are accessible in repositories in popular formats and they are made available for use by users and developers, such as the Brazilian Portal of Open Data. Due to the transport area is a recurring theme in the Brazilian daily, causing many disorders in big cities, we focus in the the vehicle fleet visualization of Brazilian capital. In this sense, this article aims to propose an application for mobile devices, called cARFleet, to open data visualization. In the application were incorporated features of augmented reality for better visualization and differentiation of the tool.