Aggregated analytics for intelligent transportation systems

• US 9,679,476 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2013
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tahoe Research Limited (f/k/a Learndale Limited) (Vector Capital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Torgerson, Matthew R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kan, Yuri
• Application Number:
  US14/354,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20160293000A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 701 1, 701 334, 701117
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/42 Determining position
• 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 1/16 Anti-collision systems road vehicle drive control systems for predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision otherwise than by control of a particular sub-unit B60W30/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

Various systems and methods for collecting and generating analytics of data from motor vehicle safety and operation systems are disclosed herein. In one example, various minor vehicle incidents and events such as hard braking, swerving, deceleration, are tracked and correlated to geographic locations. Event data for these incidents may be collected, aggregated, anonymized, and electronically communicated to a processing system for further analysis and identification of problematic roadway and traffic conditions.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium including instructions for communicating motor vehicle incident data, which when executed by a machine in operable communication with a motor vehicle, causes the machine to perform operations to:

detect a motor vehicle driving incident from data produced for an adverse event in a vehicle subsystem of the motor vehicle, wherein the vehicle subsystem includes an on-board advanced driver assistance or a safety system of the motor vehicle, and wherein the vehicle subsystem is activated for the adverse event in response to a driving condition experienced by the motor vehicle at a location of a roadway;

capture data of the motor vehicle driving incident to be reported to an external system, wherein the captured data indicates a time of occurrence for the motor vehicle driving incident and a type of vehicle subsystem activated in response to the motor vehicle driving incident, wherein the captured data includes parametric data obtained from the vehicle subsystem and camera data of a roadway surrounding the motor vehicle that is captured from a camera system;

remove vehicle identifiable information from the parametric data obtained from the vehicle subsystem;

determine location information from data produced by a navigation system of the motor vehicle;

associate the location information with the information of the motor vehicle driving incident; and

communicate the data of the motor vehicle driving incident and the location information to the external system.

2. The machine-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions, which when executed by the machine, cause the machine to perform operations to:

aggregate the data of the motor vehicle driving incident with a plurality of other motor vehicle incidents, wherein the operations to communicate the data of the motor vehicle driving incident further communicate the aggregated data of the plurality of other motor vehicle incidents.

3. The machine-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the operations to communicate the data of the motor vehicle driving incident and the plurality of other motor vehicle incidents are performed at a predetermined interval or in response to a collection of a determined number of incidents.

4. The machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein instructions to communicate the data of the motor vehicle driving incident to the external system include instructions to generate a message with event data including the data of the motor vehicle driving incident and the location information, wherein the message is formatted for transmission as a short message service (SMS) text message.

5. The machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the location information from the navigation system of the motor vehicle includes global positioning system (GPS) coordinates determined from a GPS satellite reception processed by the navigation system.

6. The machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data of the motor vehicle driving incident is correlated with additional data obtained from a communication with:

a vehicle control system of the motor vehicle, an intelligent transportation system, or a second motor vehicle received via a vehicular communication network;

wherein the operations to communicate the data of the motor vehicle driving incident and the location information to the external system further communicate the additional data to the external system.

7. An apparatus arranged to communicate motor vehicle incident data, the apparatus comprising:

processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

detect a driving incident during operation of a motor vehicle, a data originating from the driving incident being an adverse event detected in an on-board electronic subsystem of the motor vehicle, wherein the on-board electronic subsystem is activated for the adverse event in response to a driving condition experienced by the motor vehicle at a location of a roadway;

obtain data of the motor vehicle driving incident to be reported to an external system, wherein the data indicates a time of occurrence for the driving incident and a type of electronic subsystem activated in response to the driving incident, and wherein the data includes parametric data obtained from the on-board electronic subsystem and camera data of a roadway surrounding the motor vehicle that is captured from a camera system;

remove vehicle identifiable information from the parametric data obtained from the electronic subsystem activated in response to the driving incident;

determine geographic coordinates of the driving incident from a navigation system of the motor vehicle; and

communicate the data originating from the driving incident and the geographic coordinates of the driving incident to a data aggregation system via a network.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, the memory further including instructions to anonymize the data originating from the driving incident, wherein the data originating from the driving incident is anonymized to remove identification of the motor vehicle.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the on-board electronic subsystem is an advanced driver assistance system or safety system operating in the motor vehicle, and wherein the on-board electronic subsystem provides parametric data indicating operating conditions of the advanced driver assistance system or safety system.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the advanced driver assistance system includes one of more of:

an obstacle detection system, a traffic condition system, an anti-lock brake system, a collision avoidance or collision detection system, a lane departure system, or the camera system.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, the memory further including instruction to communicate to the advanced driver assistance system or safety system via a controller area network (CAN) bus interface.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, the memory further including instructions to detect the driving incident based on data values produced by the on-board electronic subsystem.

13. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising a transceiver arranged for communication with a cellular phone network, wherein the memory further includes instructions to communicate the data originating from the driving incident and the geographic coordinates of the driving incident via the cellular phone network using a short message service (SMS) text message.

14. The apparatus of claim 7, the memory further including instructions to collect data for a plurality of driving incidents and communicate the data for the plurality of driving incidents to the data aggregation system via the network based on a determined schedule or a determined condition.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, the memory further including instructions to communicate wirelessly with a mobile electronic device in proximity to the motor vehicle, and wherein the mobile electronic device communicates the collected data for the plurality of driving incidents to the data aggregation system via a wide area network.

16. A method for collecting data from a motor vehicle, the method comprising operations performed by a processor and memory of an electronic system in communication with an electronic communication bus of the motor vehicle, the operations including:

identifying data from an advanced driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, the data indicating an adverse event detected by the advanced driver assistance system, wherein the advanced driver assistance system is activated for the adverse event in response to a driving condition experienced by the motor vehicle at a location of a roadway, and wherein the data includes parametric data obtained from the advanced driver assistance system and camera data of a roadway surrounding the motor vehicle that is captured from a camera system;

correlating the identified data to time information and location information, the location information determined from a set of geographical coordinates indicating a roadway location of the adverse event detected by the advanced driver assistance system of the motor vehicle;

anonymizing the identified data for the adverse event to remove information specific to the motor vehicle, the anonymized data including the time information and the location information, by removing vehicle identifiable information from the parametric data obtained from the advanced driver assistance system; and

communicating the anonymized data for the adverse event to a remote processing service.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the anonymized data for the adverse event that is communicated includes data indicating a type of advanced driver assistance system activated.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein correlating the identified data to the location information includes identifying the location information from global navigation satellite system coordinates provided by a navigation system operating in the motor vehicle.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

recording the time information and the location information for a detected occurrence of the adverse event during operation of the motor vehicle on an area of a roadway system.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

aggregating data for the adverse event occurring at a first location and a second adverse event at a second location;

wherein communicating the anonymized data for the adverse event to a processing system further includes communicating data for the second adverse event to the remote processing service.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein the data is communicated from the motor vehicle to the remote processing service using a cellular network, a wireless local area network, or via an internet-connected smartphone.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein the identified data from the advanced driver assistance system includes data generated from an obstacle detection system, a collision avoidance system, or a lane departure system, and wherein the identified data indicates a type of advanced driver assistance system invoked by the adverse event.