IDENTIFICATION OF DRIVER ABNORMALITIES IN A TRAFFIC FLOW

• US 20170018180A1
• Filed: 07/18/2016
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Speedgauge Incorporated (Pelmorex, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Speedgauge Incorporated (Pelmorex, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hubbard, Jonathan, Kantarjiev, Christopher A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,858,814 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is 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

Driving behavior may be analyzed based on other vehicles in proximity to a tracked or monitored vehicle. GPS data is collected from the monitored vehicle and other vehicles in physical or geographic proximity thereto. A determination is made as to whether the vehicle in the physical or geographical area is exhibiting aberrant behavior. The aberrant behavior may be determined in view of other vehicles in the geographical area. If aberrant behavior is detected, an alert may be generated and transmitted to an administrator.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A system for vehicle-based alerts, the system comprising:

a positioning receiver associated with a vehicle, wherein the positioning receiver identifies a location of the vehicle based on a wireless signal received by the positioning receiver;

a wireless data transceiver that;

transmits location-based data to a server, wherein the location-based data is based on the location of the vehicle identified by the positioning receiver, and

receives alert information transmitted by the server, the alert information indicating that behavior of the vehicle is aberrant;

a memory that stores the alert information; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein execution of instructions stored in the memory by the processor generates an alert output based on the alert information.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a display screen, wherein the display screen displays the alert output.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the wireless data transceiver includes a cellular network data transceiver.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the positioning receiver includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the positioning receiver includes a cellular receiver.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the positioning receiver includes an 802.11 receiver

8. The system of claim 2, wherein the positioning receiver includes a radio-wave receiver.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein the positioning receiver includes an optical receiver.

10. The system of claim 2, wherein the positioning receiver receives the wireless signals at least one of a communication base station transmitter or a satellite.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein the wireless data transceiver also transmits identity data to the server.

12. The system of claim 2, wherein the alert information indicates that the behavior of the vehicle is aberrant because a metric calculated based on the identified location of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined threshold.

13. The system of claim 2, wherein the alert information indicates that the behavior of the vehicle is aberrant compared to nearby behavior of one or more additional vehicles other than the vehicle, wherein the one or more additional vehicles are within a geographical area that also includes the vehicle.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the nearby behavior is determined based on additional location-based data received by the server.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the nearby behavior is determined based on proximity data collected by one or more proximity sensors coupled to the vehicle device.

16. A method for vehicle-based alerts, the method comprising:

receiving a wireless positioning signal at a vehicle device associated with a vehicle;

identifying a location of the vehicle based on the received wireless positioning signal using the vehicle device;

generating location-based data using the vehicle device, the location-based data based on the identified location of the vehicle;

transmitting the location-based data from the vehicle device to a server;

receiving alert information at the vehicle device from the server, the alert information indicating that behavior of the vehicle is aberrant;

storing the alert information in a memory of the vehicle device;

generating an alert output at the vehicle device based on the alert information; and

displaying the alert output at a display screen of the vehicle device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the vehicle device transmits the location-based data wirelessly via a cellular network data transceiver.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the vehicle device receives the alert information wirelessly via a cellular network data transceiver.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving the wireless positioning signal is performed by a positioning receiver of the vehicle device, the positioning receiver including a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving the wireless positioning signal is performed by a positioning receiver of the vehicle device, the positioning receiver including a cellular network receiver.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving the wireless positioning signal is performed by a positioning receiver of the vehicle device, the positioning receiver including a 802.11 wireless receiver.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving the wireless positioning signal is performed by a positioning receiver of the vehicle device, the positioning receiver including a radio-wave receiver.

23. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving the wireless positioning signal is performed by a positioning receiver of the vehicle device, the positioning receiver including an optical receiver.

24. The method of claim 16, wherein the positioning signals include wireless signals transmitted by at least one of a communication base station transmitter or a satellite.

25. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting identity data from the vehicle device to the server.

26. The method of claim 16, wherein the alert information indicates that the behavior of the vehicle is aberrant because a metric calculated based on the identified location of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined threshold.

27. The method of claim 16, wherein the alert information indicates that the behavior of the vehicle is aberrant compared to nearby behavior of one or more additional vehicles other than the vehicle, wherein the one or more additional vehicles are within a geographical area that also includes the vehicle.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the nearby behavior is determined based on additional location-based data received by the server.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein the nearby behavior is determined based on proximity data collected by one or more proximity sensors coupled to the vehicle device.

30. The method of claim 16, wherein the server also receives additional location-based data from a second vehicle device associated with a second vehicle.

31. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for vehicle-based alerts, the method comprising:

receiving wireless positioning signals at a vehicle device associated with a vehicle;

identifying a location of the vehicle based on the received wireless positioning signal using the vehicle device;

generating location-based data using the vehicle device, the location-based data based on the identified location of the vehicle;

transmitting the location-based data from the vehicle device to a server;

receiving alert information at the vehicle device from the server, the alert information indicating that behavior of the vehicle is aberrant;

storing the alert information in a memory of the vehicle device;

generating an alert output at the vehicle device based on the alert information; and

displaying the alert output at a display screen of the vehicle device.