Of all car accidents 94 percent are caused by driver error and 57 percent by distracted driving. A system that helps the driver to focus its attention on driving can reduce injuries and damages.
The driver coach system will check for 3D aspects:
The objective is to make driving safer by developing an affordable personal driving coach.
How can you collect valuable data from your car? In my ongoing project to improve car safety and my driving skills im looking for ways to collect data from my car. Im looking for basic driving data like speed, GPS location, acceleration and engine speed (RPM) but also more advanced information on engine temperature, battery health, steering angle, and ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistence Systems) supported by radar sensors and cameras. Continue reading
In this article I describe some of my experiences setting up a basic Connected Car IoT telemetry system in a proof of concept setting. In a previous post I described some tools and techniques to process data collected from my car. There the focus was on data post processing and analysis. Now i focus on collecting the data in a realistic day to day situation, me driving in my car to work.
The project was ignited by an internal company competition to find solutions to reduce distraction while driving. I came up with the idea to build a simple App that will detect if i’m in my car and if its moving or not. Continue reading
Car sensor data
In this article I describe how we can use car data to improve driving safety, save fuel and the environment.
Every day i drive my car for more than 1 1/2 hours to work. Over the years I have collected a large amount of experience, but does this imply that i am an expert driver? The answer might be found in the data. Lets find out what we can learn and see how to apply it to a business case. Continue reading
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