The main goal of the Drivaware platform is to monitor and track
vehicle fleets. The platform is particularly useful for high numbers of vehicles, and therefore huge quantities of
acquired data.
The
platform is based on a
device installed on the vehicle and a
ground infrastructure that receives and manages the data. The whole technology is designed to be
very cheap both on the vehicle and infrastructure side. Moreover, the platform achieves an excellent level of
flexibility, so that it can be used in a wide variety of contexts.
EditKey Elements
The elements characterizing the technology are:
- Low cost on-board device
- Data acquisition from on-board networks such as engine control (ECU), ABS, ASR
- Data elaboration and analysis with synthesis algorithms
- Raw data storage for future analysis
- Synthesis data exchange with the ground infrastructure
- Aquisition of GPS positions to add geographic information to the data
- Mobile connectivity
- The device and the ground infrastructure communicate over mobile networks such as GPRS and UMTS
- Powerful ground infrastructure
- Communicate with mobile devices to exchange data and for administration purposes
- Mass storage of raw and synthesis data
- Data distribution to and from other applications using interoperable formats such as CSV and XML
- Automated batch data analysis
- Data synthesis with advanced algorithms
- Web-based data visualization and management for human operators
EditAdvantages
The advantages of the platform allow to achieve the goals with a minimum effort.
- Low investment cost
- Both the on-board device and its installation are simple and therefore cheap, so no big investments are needed
- Low maintenance and operation costs
- The capability of generating synthesis data on-board allows to reduce GPRS/UMTS traffic, and therefore costs
- Long-period monitoring
- The on-board device's memory is able to store data for moths; the ground infrastructure's storage capacity is virtually unlimited
- Wide variety of channels
- Dozens of data channels are available through the standard EOBD bus
- Lightweight on-board device
- The connection between the on-board device and the vehicle is made using the standard EOBD connector, with no custom connections or wirings