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Advanced Impact Integration Platform for Cooperative Road Use .

CHARACTERIZATION OF DRIVING
CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIOUR
THROUGH REMOTE SENSING
João Paulo Barraca, Diogo Gomes, Daniel Silva, Hadeel Abdah, Diogo Ferreira
Instituto de Telecomunicações, DETI, Universidade de Aveiro

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OUTLINE

1. Introduction
2. Radio Emanations
3. Image Processing
4. Smartphone App: MetriGet
5. In car trackers
6. @Cruise IoT platform
7. Closing remarks

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INTRODUCTION

Traffic management greatly benefits from remote sensing

methods
 for automated characterization of road and driving behavior
 for large scale data-sets
 for reduced costs

Multiple methods and sources are available

 Radio emanations, through SDR: Wi-Fi, GSM, TPMS
 Video Processing (Deep Neural Networks)
 Mobile applications
 In car trackers

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RADIO EMANATIONS

Observe radio emanations from devices

 Correlated with traffic density
 Correlated with user density (even in homes)

GSM: Broadcast messages made on network events

 useful to determine user density over a wide area (Paging Area)

WI-Fi: Broadcast messages sent when searching for an AP or

communicating
 useful to determine user density over a small area (tens of meters)

TPMS: Broacasts sent by Tire Pressure Sensors in Vehicles

 useful to determine vehicle presence (newer vehicles)

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LIVE VIDEO PROCESSING

Use of SoTA video processing

algorithms to detect, track and
count vehicules
 Background subtraction (to detect
moving objects);
 Blob detection (to detect regions
that differ in properties compared to
surrounding regions
 Tracking helper
Open Source and Low Cost

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SMARTPHONE APP
METRIGET
Exploits sensors in current smart-phones
for fine data acquisition
 GPS, Mag, Acc, Gyro, Baro
 Sensors at 20Hz
 GPS at 1Hz

Able to get tracking data with

reasonable detail
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COST EFFECTIVE, LOW DETAIL

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..., BUT HIGHLY SCALABLE Apollo project

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IN CAR TRACKER - ACQUISITION

Objective: High Speed Acquisition, Fixed Unit, OBD integration

 Real Time acquisition, internal Inertial Model, IoT compatible

Multiple sensors
 Dual 3D accelerometer (TDK MPU-9250, MMA8452Q) + 3D
magnetometers + Gyroscope
 Barometer (~30cm precision)
 High Frequency GPS
 OBDII: Speed, Fuel, Coolant Temperature, Load, RPM

High speed recording

 Sensors: up to 2 Khz
 GPS: up to ~20Hz, with up to ~10cm resolution
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IN CAR TRACKER - PROCESSING

Low Pass Filters

 Reduce noise and aliasing

3D Inertial Measurement
 Complementary filters resulting in effective Pitch and Roll

Combine Dual Triaxial Accelerometers

 Reduce uncorrelated noise
 Reduce noise from structure induced vibrations

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IN CAR TRACKER - ENGINE LOAD

VSP Mode

Blue = More Load, Red = Less Load

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IN CAR TRACKER - ROLL

Yellow = no Roll, Blue = Roll Left, Red = Roll Right

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IN CAR TRACKER - DE/ACCELERATION PROFILES

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IN CAR TRACKER - DE/ACCELERATION PROFILES

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@CRUISE - SOFTWARE PLATFORM

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OBJECTIVES

Aggregate data from multiple sources for analysis of a trip

 Correlate data from multiple sensors
 Correlate data from external sources (weather, pollution, traffic, etc…)

Use open standards for the IoT

 HTTP, MQTT, pub/sub

Provide persistence, visualization and data analysis

 Plotting of time series, VSP, Driving behavior

Enable processing of highly precise data

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SCOT: SMART CLOUD OF THINGS

State of the art, multiprotocol, IoT Platform

Apps Apps Apps Apps

Service Exposure

External
SCoT Data
Sources

WS MQTT HTTP

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PLATFORM FOR INTEGRATION OF CAR DATA

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INTEGRATIONS

Weather Data from CLIMA@UA

Floating Car Data from MetriGet
 coarse, but highly scalable data collection

Data from in car tracker© 2019 - CRUiSE

 detailed and high volume
 but not so scalable
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VISUALIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL TRIPS

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VSP mode vs VSP: Vehicle Specific Power

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SIMPLE CHARACTERIZATION OF DRIVING BEHAVIOR

Analysis of the engine load profiles

 Direct result of the driver demand of the vehicle
 Considers weight, load, inclination, speed

Categorization of samples into buckets

 Very Aggressive: 80%
 Aggressive: 50-80%
 Moderate: 35-50%
 Smooth: <35%

Data is normalized and the dominant peak is considered

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CHARACTERIZATION OF DRIVING BEHAVIOR

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CONTACTS

João Paulo Barraca

<jpbarraca@ua.pt>

IT @CRUISE TEAM:
João Paulo Barraca, Diogo Gomes, Daniel Silva, Hadeel Abdah

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