How an Engine Control Unit Affects the Car Performance? Check ECU with InCarDoc!

Electronic Control Unit (ECU) is embedded system that controls one or more of the electrical system or subsystems in a transport vehicle. ECU is a part of an engine management system allows car-owners to control vehicle internal processes.

What is Lambda and How does it Affect Fuel Consumption?

Fuel economy is an important thing for every driver and InCarDoc functionality can help to save money on fuel consumption as well as on car maintenance. That`s why one of the most popular features among users is widget "Economizer" that allows drivers to monitor and control the fuel consumption in real time.

Get to Know Some of InCarDoc Features

InCarDoc is an amazing application for drivers worldwide and 5 000 000 downloads are proving it. Besides of reading and cleaning trouble-codes, InCarDoc has many additional useful features for better communication with your car by recording trip parameters, analyzing engine performance, fuel consumption optimization and many others.

Are All OBD Ports The Same? OBD II Ports - Differences and Locations

The creation of a common for all cars diagnostic port OBD II was associated with the deterioration of the environmental situation. In this case requirements to the technical inspection became stricter: it was mandatory to check the status of the ECU (electronic control unit) of the car.

How to make a personal car diagnostic scan tool with your phone using the Bluetooth adapter ELM 327 and InCarDoc application?

InCarDoc is a universal, diagnostic application that is very useful driver assistant. With our app, you have the opportunity to get to know better your car inside. A huge number of car problems can be determined through self-diagnostics

What cars are supported

App InCarDoc, primarily designed to work with cars designed to support for data reading protocols compiant with OBD-II standard specifications. As an extra feature, app might support some internal protocols specific to some car makes/bands.

Below we will look at how you can check your car compliance with OBD-II standard requirements and protocols and what could be done with non OBD-II models.

How to update InCarDoc to Pro version on iOS devices

Frequently asked a question on our InCarDoc portal - How to update InCarDoc to Pro version on iOS devices? Some functionality is available only in PRO version, so if you need to empower the application capacity - read this article. 

How we measure data for statistics

InCarDoc statistics processing methodology, collected by application users:

InCarDoc Server receives from mobile clients summary file(s) with fuel usage. Statistics is split by time intervals with 5 minutes duration (or less). Our server uses calculated average speed for each interval to determine driving cycle style.

About InCarDoc Portal

The popularity of the InCarDoc app is constantly growing so our development team has immediately created a portal devoted to informing and supporting users. Here you can find relevant, interesting information, ask questions and communicate with other members of the InCarDoc community.

Geo-referenced parameters with GPS (Pro) supporting

One of InCarDoc's functions is "GPS support (Pro) for linking parameters to a route". We offer to consider a very necessary and useful option and disassemble it in details. GPS support for view and sending recorded traces parameters, recording parameters in background mode, widgets tab for dynamic single and combined commandsю