Patent ID: 9728015
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G07C

Claim:
1. A fuel savings scoring system with a remote real-time vehicle on-board diagnostics monitoring, the fuel savings scoring system comprising: a vehicle on-board diagnostics (OBD) device connected to an engine control unit or a vehicular control chipset of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle OBD device records and diagnoses engine, vehicle dynamics, and fuel consumption data and subsequently generates a real-time data stream that incorporates vehicle diagnostic data; a commercial vehicle fuel consumption analytics module that receives the real-time data stream from the vehicle OBD device, separates mechanical and physical fuel improvement factors from non-mechanical fuel improvement factors to track and analyze these two factors independently, and generates a two-factor graph comprising a dynamically-raisable best empirical mileage potential ceiling associated with a mechanical and physical upgrade and a current fuel mileage achieved by a particular driver of the vehicle, wherein the commercial vehicle fuel consumption analytics module further receives highest empirical mileage data for an identical travel path and an identical traffic congestion level achieved by the vehicle itself or a peer vehicle of same model and make from a commercial fleet fuel consumption database associated with a commercial vehicle fleet company; a fuel savings score analytics unit in the commercial vehicle fuel consumption analytics module, wherein the fuel savings score analytics unit calculates a travel path and traffic congestion level-specific driving score by dividing the current fuel mileage of the vehicle for the identical travel path and the identical traffic congestion level by a highest empirical mileage number for the identical travel path and the identical traffic congestion level achieved by the vehicle itself or by the peer vehicle of same model and make, and then multiplying by 100; the commercial fleet fuel consumption database that accumulates, stores, and categorizes fuel consumption records downloaded from the vehicle and a plurality of peer vehicles of same model and make; and a computer server or another electronic device with a CPU and a memory unit that executes the fuel savings score analytics unit and utilizes the commercial fleet fuel consumption database, wherein the computer server or another electronic device displays the two-factor graph comprising the dynamically-raisable best empirical mileage potential ceiling associated with the mechanical and physical upgrade, the current fuel mileage achieved by the particular driver of the vehicle, and the travel path and traffic congestion level-specific driving score on a display panel in the vehicle or in a remote monitoring station.