The Open Source Design - The New Frontier of Smart Cities
MOVENS is an open source platform designed to be the IoT Hub in the Smart City that sets a new international standard in the Tech Mobility Market.
MOVENS can be installed “as is” in a Kubernetes environment on the Amazon EKS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, …
MOVENS is hardware agnostic and can support virtually all the onboard devices via customized drivers.
MOVENS is fully compliant with GDPR; it’s possible to manage different settings related to the specific country rules.
The first release of MOVENS (MOVENS Sharing) includes the vehicle sharing module which offers the possibility for OEMs, corporates and local authorities to brand and launch an independent ridesharing service, an independent vehicle sharing service, other services and/or combinations of services within a single integrated app experience.
MOVENS Sharing platform is a complete end-to-end solution that automates every part of managing all kinds of ridesharing or vehicle sharing operation, including real time statistics, dynamic pricing, demand-supply balancing, billing module with accounting connection, communities management, driver behaviour.
MOVENS manages different transportation authorities (Train, Subway, Airlines, local transportation, vehicle sharing) so that Mobility companies can manage services to their customers and offer integrated trip solutions issuing all needed tickets managing only one payment.
MOVENS allows Mobility Players to offer extended integrated services in an easily and independent way.
Using MOVENS Sharing, mobility companies will be able to enter the vehicle sharing market with a state-of-the-art vehicle sharing service in all its forms: free floating, point to point, round trip, peer to peer solutions or a combination of them.
Flexibility is one of the main features of MOVENS, thanks to its open source design. Connecting and integrating existing operative modules, applications and platforms becomes easy.
Blue: community edition open source
Grey: business edition shared source
Open source model
To become a leading mobility platform it is essential the world wide diffusion.
The fastest way to empower the diffusion is the open source model which coagulates around it many independent software developers.
The most people use it the fastest is its diffusion.
Another advantage is the continuous improvement and development of the functionalities of the platform that is carried on not only by Henshin R&D people, but by the worldwide software community of the independent developers.
Movens platform is made of different modules which manage different areas of data.
There is a people core Module which manages people (users) data, a Vehicle sharing Module which manages the vehicle data and the logic of the trips (shared vehicles or multi means of transport trips) and a Business Core Module which manages the accounting of the trips, the fare prices, the invoicing and all the accounting related to the users trips.
The modules which are open source are the People Core Module, the Vehicle Sharing Module and the User Experience Libraries. Using these three open source modules it is possible to manage the vehicle sharing activity and backend-vehicle communication and UX design libraries give to the users the possibility to create their own app.
The Business Core Module, which can include a white label app and the payment gateways, is released on a monthly fee per vehicle and allows a company to calculate the trips fares, to invoice them, to manage the accounting of the trips and to manage a vehicle sharing company.
Here under in blue the open source and free modules and in black the shared code modules released on a monthly fee per vehicle base.
In this second image it is shown the content of the different modules . In blue the open source and free modules and in black on a shared code and on a monthly fee per vehicle base the other modules.
Blue: community edition open source
Grey: business edition shared source
Features
The following tables show the main features that the core and business modules provide by default in their first release.
The full management can be done using a web admin interface or backend APIs.
Theoretically, a complete customized frontend (web admin) can be developed using the core and business APIs.
The mobile app is a tool for the end user of the services.
Evolutive timeline
Macro Verticals
Core
Notes
Vehicle Sharing Management (Released)
Sharing Model
Core
Mobile App
MOVENS Macro Modules (Released)
Module
Core
Notes
Data exchange
All the data in the platform can be exported
- Automated horizontal scaling of services (pods)
- Users
- Users activity
- Users driving/behaviour profile
- Reservations
- Trips
- Vehicle events (gathered from the onboard devices sensors and canbus)
- Vehicle actions (performed by operators/platform checks/final users)
- Vehicle damages (categorized, free text, images)
- Vehicle maintenance
- Payments/Transactions
- Invoices
- Reports
- Statistics
The data can be exported
Via file (json, xml…) (sftp, https, …)
Via a direct connection with an external database or CRM/ERP
Via external webservices (APIs)
Attaching an agent to the platform communication/message ring
NOTE: the data extraction can be filtered in compliance with the privacy law of the interested country.