NAVX recently launched “Essence Eco”, its Gas Price application for iPhone. Available in
French on iTunes’ App Store, this innovative service allows users to locate the
cheapest Gas Stations around them. The service also offers the easiest way for
the community of users to update prices and share them: by simply taking a
picture of the gas price panel in front of the gas station !
NAVX application is indeed the first and unique service allowing users to collaborate on gas prices directly from their iPhone. We receive hundreds of pictures everyday, which our Content Management team treats immediately to update our database of gas prices. This is crowdsourcing applied to dynamic geolocalized content.
In a few days, our service entered the Top 5 most
downloaded applications on the App Store, demonstrating the interest for such a collaborative tool.
The “Essence Eco” application
is free and can be downloaded directly from iTunes’ App Store and will soon be
available in other European countries.
