Vehicle data collection system, vehicle data collection method, vehicle-mounted device, program, and recording medium

• US 9,495,813 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hyodo, Junichi, Hiura, Ryota, Mabuchi, Yoshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Butler, Rodney
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M
• Application Number:
  US14/443,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20150332519A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/06 Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/063 using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station identification of vehicles G08G
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/02 Registering or indicating driving, working, idle, or waiting time only apparatus forming part of taximeters G07B13/00
• 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: G08G 1/01 Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled G08G1/07 - G08G1/14 take precedence
• 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 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/065 by counting the vehicles in a section of the road or in a parking area, i.e. comparing incoming count with outgoing count
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096758 where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

A vehicle data collection system includes a vehicle-mounted device installed in a vehicle and configured to transmit data related to the vehicle, and a vehicle data collection device configured to collect the data related to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle-mounted device includes a vehicle data transmission unit configured to transmit first vehicle data, which includes information in which an individual related to the vehicle is to be identified, and second vehicle data, which includes information in which the individual related to the vehicle is not to be identified, to the vehicle data collection device in different sessions, the first vehicle data and the second vehicle data are data related to the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle data collection system for securely collecting data related to a vehicle, the system comprising:

a vehicle-mounted computing device installed in the vehicle and configured to transmit data related to the vehicle; and

a vehicle data collection server configured to collect the data related to the vehicle,

wherein the vehicle-mounted computing device comprises;

a temporally changed information acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to a time-varied event of the vehicle; and

a vehicle data transmission unit configured to transmit first vehicle data, which includes first identification information that is capable of identifying an individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the first identification information and in which the individual related to the vehicle is to be identified, and second vehicle data, which includes second identification information that is not capable of identifying the individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the second identification information and which is acquired by the temporally changed information acquisition unit as information in which the individual related to the vehicle is not to be identified, to the vehicle data collection server in different sessions, the first vehicle data and the second vehicle data are data related to the vehicle,

wherein the vehicle data transmission unit is configured to;

connect a first session with the vehicle data collection server and send the second vehicle data whenever the temporally changed information acquisition unit acquires information;

connect a second session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the first session and send the first vehicle data when the vehicle data transmission unit needs to send the first vehicle data while the first session is connected; and

connect a third session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the second session and send the second vehicle data whenever the temporally changed information acquisition unit acquires information when the vehicle data transmission unit completes sending the first vehicle data, and

wherein the vehicle data transmission unit is configured to send the second vehicle data including the second identification information which is common to the first session and the third session.

2. The vehicle data collection system according to claim 1, wherein, after a motor of the vehicle is started, when the second vehicle data is initially transmitted, the vehicle data transmission unit transmits data including a new second identification information.

3. The vehicle data collection system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle data transmission unit transmits the first vehicle data and the second vehicle data to different vehicle data collection servers respectively.

4. A vehicle data collection method of securely collecting data related to a vehicle, the vehicle data collection method comprising:

a temporally changed information acquisition step of acquiring information related to a time-varied event of the vehicle; and

a vehicle data transmission step of transmitting first vehicle data, which includes first identification information that is capable of identifying an individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the first identification information and in which the individual related to the vehicle is to be identified, and second vehicle data, which includes second identification information that is not capable of identifying the individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the second identification information and which is acquired in the temporally changed information acquisition step as information in which the individual related to the vehicle is not to be identified, from a vehicle-mounted computing device, which is installed in the vehicle and configured to send data related to the vehicle, to a vehicle data collection server configured to collect data related to a plurality of vehicles in different sessions, the first vehicle data and the second vehicle data being data related to vehicle,

wherein the vehicle data transmission step includes steps of;

connecting a first session with the vehicle data collection server and sending the second vehicle data whenever information is acquired in the temporally changed information acquisition step;

connecting a second session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the first session and sending the first vehicle data when the first vehicle data need to be transmitted while the first session is connected; and

connecting a third session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the second session when the step of sending the first vehicle data is completed and sending the second vehicle data whenever information is acquired in the temporally changed information acquisition step, and

wherein the second vehicle data including the second identification information which is common to the first session and the third session is transmitted in the vehicle data transmission step.

5. A vehicle-mounted computing device installed in a vehicle and configured to securely transmit data related to the vehicle, the vehicle-mounted computing device comprising:

a temporally changed information acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to a time-varied event of the vehicle; and

a vehicle data transmission unit configured to transmit first vehicle data, which includes first identification information that is capable of identifying an individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the first identification information and in which the individual related to the vehicle is to be identified, and second vehicle data, which includes second identification information that is not capable of identifying the individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the second identification information and which is acquired by the temporally changed information acquisition unit as information in which the individual related to the vehicle is not to be identified, to a vehicle data collection server configured to collect data related to a plurality of vehicles in different sessions, the first vehicle data and the second vehicle data being data related to the vehicle,

wherein the vehicle data transmission unit is configured to;

connect a first session with the vehicle data collection server and send the second vehicle data whenever the temporally changed information acquisition unit acquires information;

connect a second session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the first session and send the first vehicle data when the vehicle data transmission unit needs to send the first vehicle data while the first session is connected; and

connect a third session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the second session and send the second vehicle data whenever the temporally changed information acquisition unit acquires information when the vehicle data transmission unit completes sending the first vehicle data, and

wherein the vehicle data transmission unit is configured to send the second vehicle data including the second identification information which is common to the first session and the third session.

6. A program configure to cause a computer to function as a vehicle-mounted computing device installed in a vehicle and configured to securely transmit data related to the vehicle, the program configured to function as:

a temporally changed information acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to a time-varied event of the vehicle; and

a vehicle data transmission unit configured to transmit first vehicle data, which includes first identification information that is capable of identifying an individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the first identification information and in which the individual related to the vehicle is to be identified, and second vehicle data, which includes second identification information that is not capable of identifying the individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the second identification information and which is acquired by the temporally changed information acquisition unit as information in which the individual related to the vehicle is not to be identified, to a vehicle data collection server configured to collect data related to a plurality of vehicles in different sessions, the first vehicle data and the second vehicle data being data related to the vehicle,

wherein the vehicle data transmission unit is configured to;

connect a first session with the vehicle data collection server and send the second vehicle data whenever the temporally changed information acquisition unit acquires information;

connect a second session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the first session and send the first vehicle data when the vehicle data transmission unit needs to send the first vehicle data while the first session is connected; and

connect a third session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the second session and send the second vehicle data whenever the temporally changed information acquisition unit acquires information when the vehicle data transmission unit completes sending the first vehicle data, and

wherein the vehicle data transmission unit is configured to send the second vehicle data including the second identification information which is common to the first session and the third session.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium on which a program configured to cause a computer to function as a vehicle-mounted computing device installed in a vehicle and configured to securely transmit data related to the vehicle is recorded, the non-transitory computer-readable recording medium on which the program configured to function as:

a temporally changed information acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to a time-varied event of the vehicle; and

a vehicle data transmission unit configured to transmit first vehicle data, which includes first identification information that is capable of identifying an individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the first identification information and in which the individual related to the vehicle is to be identified, and second vehicle data, which includes second identification information that is not capable of identifying the individual related to the vehicle and information which is other than the second identification information and which is acquired by the temporally changed information acquisition unit as information in which the individual related to the vehicle is not to be identified, to a vehicle data collection server configured to collect data related to a plurality of vehicles in different sessions is recorded, the first vehicle data and the second vehicle data being data related to the vehicle,

wherein the vehicle data transmission unit is configured to;

connect a first session with the vehicle data collection server and send the second vehicle data whenever the temporally changed information acquisition unit acquires information;

connect a second session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the first session and send the first vehicle data when the vehicle data transmission unit needs to send the first vehicle data while the first session is connected; and

connect a third session with the vehicle data collection server after disconnecting the second session and send the second vehicle data whenever the temporally changed information acquisition unit acquires information when the vehicle data transmission unit completes sending the first vehicle data, and

wherein the vehicle data transmission unit is configured to send the second vehicle data including the second identification information which is common to the first session and the third session.