SenseFleet: A smartphone-based driver profiling platform

Abstract

Smartphones embed increasingly complex sensors that can be used for a wide range of connected applications. Their growing market penetration provides the opportunity to develop novel distributed sensing platforms that will constitute the foundation for emerging commercial applications. In this work we present SenseFleet, a smartphone-based driver profiling platform. The concept behind SenseFleet is to analyze the output of smartphone sensors while driving in order to identify risky maneuvers (e.g. acceleration, braking and cornering) and provide a score reflecting the overall performance of the driver. A Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) is used to detect events independently from the car and mobile phone used. A smartphone application has been developed to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach. In this demo we show interactive results of a test campaign performed in Luxembourg. The results show that the SenseFleet platform is able to identify risky driving maneuvers and provide representative scores. A second benefit of SenseFleet is that for a large number of participants, it will allow to monitor the road network and identify dangerous locations, i.e. locations that have a high event density.

Neural Networks for Driver Behavior Analysis

“…Castignani et alius [33,34] discuss SenseFleet, a driver profile platform that is able to detect risky driving events independently from the mobile device and vehicle. They use a Fuzzy system to compute a score for the different drivers using real-time context information like route topology or weather conditions.…”

Advanced Temporal Dilated Convolutional Neural Network for a Robust Car Driver Identification

“…More details in [13]. In [5] the authors designed a pipeline named "Sense Fleet" based on the output analysis of such specific smartphone's sensors in order to identify and profile the subject who is driving. The method performs well but it suffers from the limitations of similar methods that use devices external to the car, therefore problems of invasiveness and compatibility with the automotive systems of the car.…”