Patent ID: 8948996
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: B60K,G05B,G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of monitoring transport vehicle fleet safety, the method comprising: receiving vehicle operations data from a plurality of data capturing devices installed at a plurality of transport vehicles, the vehicle operations data representative of sensor output captured by the data capturing devices; selecting a plurality of data sets from the vehicle operations data, the plurality of data sets representative of output of different types of sensors; processing the plurality of data sets to obtain different vehicle safety metrics defined by the different types of sensors; comparing at least one of the vehicle safety metrics to a threshold configured for the vehicle safety metric, the threshold being calculated based on past values of the data set on which the vehicle safety metric is based, the threshold being offset from an average value by a deviation, the average value being calculated from a first set of past values of the data set, the deviation being calculated from a second set of past values of the data set, and the second set of past values covering a longer time range than the first set of past values; and when the compared vehicle safety metric does not conform to the threshold, outputting an indication of non-conformance to a manager device associated with a manager of fleet drivers of the transport vehicle fleet; the indication of non-conformance configured for safety analysis of past operation of at least one transport vehicle of the fleet for oversight by management and feedback to at least one fleet driver of the at least one transport vehicle.