TRACKING AND ANALYSIS OF DRIVERS WITHIN A FLEET OF VEHICLES

• US 20160371553A1
• Filed: 06/22/2015
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digital Ally Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Digital Ally Incorporated
• Inventors: Rumage, John, Farnham, James W. IV, Phillips, Steven L., Troxel, Jason R.
• Granted Patent: US 10,013,883 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/08 Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0825 using optical means
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/04 using optical or ultrasonic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/127 to a central station ; Indicators in a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

A system for tracking a fleet of vehicles and analyzing a driver associated with the fleet of vehicles. The system includes a monitoring engine for receiving information from a vehicle-tracking device associated with a vehicle of the fleet. A mapping engine displays, to a user, an icon indicative of an incident on a map. A video repository engine receives video data from a video camera associated with the vehicle and associates an incident video with the icon. A driver analysis engine obtains the incident information associated with a plurality of drivers and analyzes the incident information associated with the driver to generate a driver profile. The driver analysis engine compares the driver with corresponding drivers in the same and other fleets.

Claims

1. A system for tracking a fleet of vehicles, the system comprising:

a monitoring engine for receiving information from a vehicle-tracking device associated with a vehicle of the fleet,

wherein at least a portion of said information is incident information that is associated with an incident detected by the vehicle-tracking device;

a mapping engine for displaying, to a user, an icon indicative of the incident on a map,

wherein the icon is located on the map in a location corresponding to an incident location; and

a video repository engine for receiving video data from a video camera associated with the vehicle,

said video repository engine acquiring an incident video based upon at least a portion of said video data,

wherein the mapping engine associates the incident video with said icon displayed on the map such that the user may select and view the incident video.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring engine receives the information associated with the incident substantially in real time.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the incident information associated with the incident includes geographic information related to the incident, actions taken by a driver of the vehicle, vehicle status associated with the incident, and the durational time of the incident.

4. The system of claim 1,

wherein the video repository engine receives the video data from the video camera upon the vehicle arriving at an upload location,

wherein the upload location is different than the incident location.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein a recording device manager in the vehicle instructs the video camera to associate the incident information with the recorded video data prior to the vehicle arriving at the upload location.

6. The system of claim 1,

wherein the video data has associated orientation data,

wherein the mapping engine displays an orientation indication of the orientation data on the map.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the mapping engine analyzes the video data to determine a set of video data that covers an inquiry location at an inquiry time based upon the orientation data and a set of location information for the video data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the inquiry location is different than the incident location, such that the mapping engine identifies video data that covers the inquiry location independently of whether said set of video data is associated with an incident.

9. A system for analyzing a driver associated with a fleet of vehicles, the system comprising:

a monitoring engine for receiving information from a vehicle-tracking device associated with a vehicle of the fleet that is associated with the driver,

wherein at least a portion of said information is an incident information associated with an incident detected by the vehicle-tracking device;

a driver analysis engine for obtaining the incident information associated with a plurality of drivers,

wherein the driver is one of said plurality of drivers,

said driver analysis engine analyzing the incident information associated with the driver to generate a driver profile,

said driver analysis engine comparing the incident information associated with the driver with corresponding incident information for the plurality of drivers.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of drivers includes substantially all drivers associated with the fleet of vehicles.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of drivers includes substantially all drivers operating in a geographic location.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of drivers includes substantially all drivers associated with a vehicle of the same type as the vehicle of the fleet that is associated with the driver.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the driver analysis engine identifies at least one characteristic of the driver.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the identified characteristic of the driver is based upon the comparison of the driver profile for the driver with the corresponding driver profiles for the plurality of drivers.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the driver analysis engine recommends a set of training for the driver based at least in part on the identified characteristic of the driver.

16. A system for tracking a fleet of vehicles and analyzing a driver associated with the fleet of vehicles, the system comprising:

a monitoring engine for receiving information from a vehicle-tracking device associated with a vehicle of the fleet,

wherein at least a portion of said information is incident information that is associated with an incident detected by the vehicle-tracking device;

a mapping engine for displaying, to a user, an icon indicative of the incident on a map,

wherein the icon is located on the map in a location corresponding to an incident location;

a video repository engine for receiving video data from a video camera associated with the vehicle,

said video repository engine acquiring an incident video based upon at least a portion of said video data,

wherein the mapping engine associates the incident video with said icon displayed on the map such that the user may select and view the incident video; and

a driver analysis engine for obtaining the incident information associated with a plurality of drivers,

wherein the driver is one of said plurality of drivers,

said driver analysis engine analyzing the incident information associated with the driver to generate a driver profile,

said driver analysis engine comparing the driver profile for the driver with corresponding driver profiles for the plurality of drivers.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the plurality of drivers is chosen from the group including substantially all drivers associated with the fleet of vehicles, substantially all drivers operating in a geographic location, and substantially all drivers associated with a vehicle of the same type as the vehicle of the fleet that is associated with the driver.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the driver analysis engine identifies at least one characteristic of the driver based upon the comparison of the driver profile for the driver with the corresponding driver profiles for the plurality of drivers.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the driver profile includes set of video data associated with the incident.

20. The system of claim 20, wherein the set of video data is presented to a supervisor of the driver for review.