Requirements

The primary goal of the project is a mobile application for the Bladenight participants (vs. bladeguards, BRK, organizers...).

General requirements

• Main audience: bladenight participant owning a smartphone
• Keep support effort as low as possible on developers/organizer side

Target platform/clients

High priority:

• Android phones >=2.2 (90% of Android market share)
• iPhone iOS >= 5 (90% of iOS market share)

Low priority:

• Windows Phone 8
• Android tablets (>=2.2)
  • No need for optimization, but reasonable look&feel
• iPad(s)
  • iOS >= 5
  • No need for optimization, but reasonable look&feel
• Web site

Integration with existing infrastructure

Web site:

• See the map and the route in advance
• Map view in realtime (like on the mobile clients)
• Statistics in realtime
• Statistics about past events (number of participants, avg speed...)

Main features

Display a map with :

• My position
• My friends
• Users of my groups (at least for Bladeguards)
• "Heat map" of the procession, to see high density areas (e.g. traffic jam)
• Zoom on:
  • Route
  • Procession
  • Group
  • Me
• Auto zoom (e.g. follow automatically)

Display a progress bar with :

• My position
• My friends
• Users of my groups
• Width can represent:
  • procession
  • route
  • map section

Display:

• Route length
• Procession length
• Current linear position on the route (2.4 of 10.6km)
• Current/average speed

Bladenight event statistics (after the facts)

• Took place / cancelled
• Average speed
• Average procession length
• Real start/end time
• Fluidity
• Heat map showing the traffic jam spots
• Replay the bladenight (with all features of the client, e.g. heat map...)

User and groups

• Users can create an account
• Users can reset their password
  • With SMS ? Email ? Facebook ? Google ?
• Users can request to be added to groups (Bladeguard teams, admins...)
• Group owners can request users to add them to their group
• Permissions can be set for the different groups (see Administration)

User auth required for:

• Friends
• Groups
• Web site

Social features

• Add a friend. Possible media: in the app only; by SMS
• Find a friend ("Bob is 200m ahead of you")
• Import contacts from:
  • Address book
  • Facebook

Bladeguard specific features

• Evaluate time until the procession drove past (to inform waiting car drivers)
• Call for help (BRK)
• Message to group

Security

• Identify client software
• Protect against network eavesdropping

Administration

• Allow all administration tasks from both mobile clients and web interface
• Upload new route (GPX, KML..)
• Set active route to predefined route
• Modify active and predefined routes
• Restart remotely the server
• Manage users, groups, permissions (for instance admin rights)

Advertisement (see also Advertisement)

• Support at least one ad network
• Allow to add specific ads for the sponsors (AOK ?)

Privacy

• Comply with the german Datenschutz

Other

• Display tunnels/bridges for pedestrians and bikers to cross the bladenight safely
• Safety function to avoid people to watch their phones while inlining
• Offline modus
• Save coordinates locally, export as GPX
• Broadcast message to all participants

Development

• Storage: support at least one inline solution (files, sqlite, h2...)