DRIVING BEHAVIOUR MONITORING SYSTEMS

• US 20140365030A1
• Filed: 06/10/2014
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wunelli Limited (RELX PLC)
• Original Assignee: Wunelli Limited (RELX PLC)
• Inventors: STACY, Paul Rowan
• Application Number:
  US14/300,922
• Publication Number:
  US 20140365030A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data

Abstract

A device comprising a data processor configured to receive one or more indicators of movement, and determine if the one or more indicators of movement correspond to a frame of reference of a moving vehicle, and the device comprising a driving behaviour functionality configured to monitor driving behaviour, and an activator in communication with the data processor and the driving behaviour monitoring functionality, the activator comprising an auto-start functionality responsive to a determination by the data processor, of the frame of reference of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a data processor configured to;

receive one or more indicators of movement; and

determine if the one or more indicators of movement correspond to a frame of reference of a moving vehicle;

a driving behaviour monitoring functionality configured to monitor driving behaviour; and

an activator in communication with the data processor and the driving behaviour monitoring functionality, the activator comprising an auto-start functionality configured to control the driving behaviour monitoring functionality responsive to a determination, by the data processor, of the frame of reference of the vehicle.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the driving behaviour monitoring functionality is activated responsive to positional data of the vehicle, and data derived from the positional data is output.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the activator comprises an installed software application which is operative to implement the auto-start functionality by the data processor.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising a navigational positioning module.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the navigational positioning module is arranged to communicate with a satellite positioning system.

6. The device of claim 1, further comprising a cellular mobile telecommunications device or telephone.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the activator is configured to determine the speed of the vehicle, and wherein if the speed is above a predetermined speed, the activator activates the driving behaviour monitoring functionality, and wherein if the speed is below a predetermined speed, the activator deactivates the driving behaviour monitoring functionality.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to determine the presence of a short-range air interface communications device installed in the vehicle.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the is activator configured to determine if the device is in a vehicle which is moving by using geo-fencing monitoring of the device in relation to cellular telecommunication tower location.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the activator is configured to measure changes in acceleration experienced by the device.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the data processor is further configured to determine a sequence of changes in acceleration experienced by the device, and is further configured to compare the sequences to stored patterns of acceleration.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the data processor is further configured to determine whether there is sufficient similarity between the measured acceleration sequence and the stored acceleration pattern and, responsive to a determination that there is a sufficient similarity, activating the driving behaviour monitoring functionality.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the activator is configured to sample location/environment sound.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the activator is configured to compare sampled sound with pre-stored data indicative of sound within a moving vehicle, and responsive to a determination that there is sufficient similarity between the recorded sound sample and the pre-recorded data, activating the driving behaviour monitoring functionality.

15. The device of claim 1, wherein the activator is configured to communicate with an onboard diagnostics module associated with the vehicle and to obtain vehicle usage data therefrom.

16. The device of claim 15 in which the onboard diagnostics module is configured to transmit vehicle ignition-on and vehicle ignition-off events and data from the vehicle'"'"'s management system.

17. A method of controlling a driving behaviour monitor comprising:

automatically activating driving behaviour monitoring in response to determining if a device is in a frame of reference of a moving vehicle.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising using data sensed by the device within the local environment of the device, to determine if said device is in the frame of reference of a vehicle.

19. Machine-readable instructions for an activator of a driving behaviour monitoring device which, when executed by a data processor of a driving behaviour monitor, cause the data processor to automatically activate driving behaviour monitoring in response to determination that the device is in the frame of reference of a vehicle.