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Getting started

Use a mobile application while driving a vehicle to capture data for CityLens. To get started:

  1. Contact your organization to get required credentials, links, and permissions.

  2. Review requirements for devices to be used for recording.

  3. Install the CityLens mobile application and log in.

  4. When asked, grant the application access to the following:

    • Device camera to take photos and record videos.
    • Device geolocation to bind photos and videos to geographic coordinates so that they can later be used for analysis.

  5. Make sure that your device is safely mounted in the car: see the camera and mounting requirements.

  6. Start recording.

The mobile application interface contains the following tabs:

Statistics tab  CityLens tab  Settings tab

  • Statistics tab where you can see daily information on the total traveled distance and the number of uploaded and processed images. The numbers are updated when some images are captured and uploaded.
  • CityLens tab where you can start capturing or uploading data.
  • Settings tab where you can configure track recording and see details of the application and your account.

Device requirements

To take photos and record videos, you can use a mobile phone that meets the following requirements depending on the operating system:

iOS

  • Operating system version: iOS 15.0 or later.

  • Processor: A12 Bionic or later (iPhone XR, XS, or newer models).

  • RAM: at least 3 GB.

  • Disk space:

    • to install the application: at least 500 MB
    • to store recorded photos and videos: at least 64 GB

  • Camera: image capturing with a minimum resolution of 12 megapixels is supported.

  • Geolocation: GPS/GLONASS is available for precise route tracking.

  • Internet: continuous connection is not required but is needed to upload tracks.

Android

  • Operating system version: Android 10 (API level 29) or later.

  • Processor architecture: use smartphones released in 2016 or later with processors of the following architectures:

    • (recommended) arm64-v8a: processors in Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, and Vivo smartphones, in particular:

      • Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 or later
      • MediaTek Dimensity 8100 or later
      • Samsung Exynos 990 or later

    • armeabi-v7a

    • x86_64 (based on Intel and AMD processors)

  • Processor frequency: at least 1.5 MHz.

  • RAM: at least 4 GB.

  • Disk space:

    • to install the application: at least 500 MB
    • to store recorded photos and videos: at least 64 GB

  • Graphics accelerator: OpenGL ES 3.1 or later is supported (for rendering an Urbi map).

  • Camera: image capturing with a minimum resolution of 12 megapixels is supported.

  • Geolocation: GPS/GLONASS is available for precise route tracking.

  • Internet: continuous connection is not required but is needed to upload tracks.

Note

Huawei smartphones are currently not supported.

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