Computer Platform for Development and Deployment of Sensor-Driven Vehicle Telemetry Applications and Services

• US 20140380264A1
• Filed: 09/18/2012
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Misra, Prateep, Pal, Arpan, Purushothaman, Balamuralidhar, Bhaumik, Chirabrata, Swamy, Deepak, Subrahmanian, Venkatramanan Siva, Ghose, Avik, Sinha, Aniruddha
• Granted Patent: US 9,990,182 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3668 Software testing software testing in telephone exchanges H04M3/242, testing of hardware G06F11/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/00 Arrangements for software engineering testing or debugging G06F11/36; administrative, planning or organisation aspects of software project management G06Q10/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/04 Network management architectures or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A computing platform for intelligent development, deployment and management of vehicle telemetry applications is disclosed herein. Further, the present disclosure provides a method and system that enables provision of Intelligent Transportation Service on the Cloud-based Platform that facilitates creation and deployment of vehicle telemetry applications configured for enabling traffic measurements, traffic shaping, vehicle surveillance and other vehicle related services.

Claims

1. An intelligent transportation system comprising:

a) an infrastructure platform comprising plurality of hardware and software components, infrastructure services, a plurality of Application Program Interfaces (APIs), and a plurality of Software Development Kits (SDKs);

b) a plurality of sensors intermittently connected with the infrastructure platform with at least one communication network; and

c) a vehicle telemetry application development device electronically coupled with the infrastructure platform and the plurality of sensors, wherein said vehicle telemetry application development device is facilitated using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) allowing application development and deployment of the vehicle telemetry application development device using data and infrastructure reusability.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of hardware components comprise at least one of:

computer machines, virtual machines, servers, disks, and network resources.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the infrastructure services comprise at least one of:

an edge analytics service, a backend storage service, a backend analytics service, and a reporting service.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said edge analytics service is adapted to perform analytics on sensor data feeds using preprocessing and feature extraction, wherein preprocessing and feature extraction leads to data reduction to allow for storage of only features and to not allow for storage of raw sensor data.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein said backend storage service is configured to enable storage and retrieval of sensor data using a Sensor Observation Service.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein said backend analytics service is configured for performing analytics on a back-end subsystem, wherein the back-end subsystem enables classification and clustering of stored sensor data.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein said reporting service is adapted to provide audio/visual alerts to a plurality of end-user subscribers based on a result of a plurality of analytics run on sensor data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensors are adapted to sense varied physical quantities in a smart vehicle environment, wherein the varied physical quantities further comprise at least one of temperature, pressure, location, motion, orientation, acceleration, deceleration, and cardiac data.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle telemetry application development device enables an application developer to invoke a plurality of services and computing algorithms therefrom using the APIs and SDKs to develop vehicle telemetry applications in the infrastructure platform.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said vehicle telemetry applications further comprise at least one of:

pot-hole detection, rough-vehicle detection, cardiac-activity monitoring, in-car diagnostic and prognosis thereof, remote-photography, remote tourist guidance, driver-drowsiness identification, remote sleep-detection, remote damage assessment, managing unmanned railway-check posts, and remote vehicle communication.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein a plurality of categories of sensors integrated with the infrastructure platform comprise at least one of soft sensors, physical sensors, and virtual sensors.

3. (canceled)

12. (canceled)

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19. A method for providing an intelligent transportation platform, the method comprising steps of:

a) integrating a suite of bundled services on the intelligent transportation platform capable of executing algorithms, functions and calls to develop a suite of sensor driven applications for sensor data feeds received from a plurality of sensors;

b) enabling a plurality of application developers to flexibility select services and algorithms relevant in context with a domain of a sensor driven application within the suite of sensor driven applications; and

c) configuring the intelligent transportation platform to enable the plurality of application developers to develop a plurality of new sensor driven applications and algorithms of the plurality of new sensor driven applications using at least one selected service from the suite of bundled services.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the plurality of sensors sense varied physical quantities in a smart vehicle environment, wherein the varied physical quantities comprise at least one of:

temperature, pressure, location, motion, orientation, acceleration, deceleration, and cardiac data.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the suite of bundled services includes an edge analytics service performing analytics on the sensor data feeds using preprocessing and feature extraction, thereby leading to data reduction and allowing for storage of features and not allowing for storage of raw sensor data.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the suite of bundled services includes a backend storage service enabling storage and retrieval of sensor data using a Sensor Observation Service.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the suite of bundled services includes a backend analytics service performing analytics on a back-end subsystem, thereby enabling classification, and clustering of stored sensor data.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the suite of bundled services includes a reporting service providing audio/visual alerts to a plurality of end-user subscribers based on at least one result of an analytics run on sensor data.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein said sensor data feeds are captured through at least one of:

on-board/off-board vehicular sensors, Smarthphones, proximity sensor gateway devices and intelligent sensing devices.

27. The method of claim 19, wherein said suite of sensor driven applications facilitates vehicle anomaly detection and a prognosis of vehicle anomaly detection, wherein the suite of sensor driven applications is focused to enable safety and security for at least one of:

a vehicle, a driver, a passenger, and another road user.

28. The method of claim 19, wherein said algorithms, functions and calls are executed depending on a nature of service and a context of an application provided to be developed, test and deployed.

26. (canceled)

29-30. -30. (canceled)