M2M ProjectMobile app and services: info, monitoring, analysis for safe driving

M2M – The project

M2M – The project

• UE Italy program found: PON “Ricerca e Competitività 2007-2013”

• Admitted cost: 5.000.967 Euro• Start date: 1/7/2011• End date: 31/10/2013• Partners: University of Calabria (Chief), FIAT

Group Automobile S.p.A., NEOS Sistemi S.r.l.

M2M – Aims

• Co-producing information on road safety• Reducing the environmental impacts and

optimize the road-vehicle interaction through shared behavioral strategies

• Testing and implementing advanced models for traffic management

• Optimizing the use of the vehicle through eco and safe driving strategies

M2M – Main activities

• Research on GIS platforms for the development of integrated road safety

• Study of the main risk factors and risk chain design• Acquisition and analysis of data collected by vehicles (smartphone

devices), selection and validation of data set useful for prevention of road accidents

• Design and building of multi-profile and multi-purpose database • Mobile application design• Prototype implementation• Market analysis and strategies design on information widespread

technique• Legal assessment procedures related to information flow process

management• Test site analysis• Prototype’s experimentation and testing

Platform overviewSERVER M2MWEB SERVER

Geo-DBMS

Portale M2M Web GIS

REST

Dataset specificationDatabase layers

• Road routable network:• OSM (Open Street Map) source,• pgRouting (Routing engine);• Reports of car accidents;• Reports of road signs problems;• Reports of road pavement issues;• Not regulated road access;• Roadsides issues;• Reports of black points (Road safety

inspection).

Use case applications• Professional Users:

• First Aid Users,• Law Enforcement Users,• Local Authorities;

• Non-professional users.

Use case application (Web-GIS)

App M2M

Attractiveness of the M2M App

In addition to the functionality provided by the objectives of the project, the application has a user-friendly interface and provides several functions for the display of their own tracks and statistics relating to their driving cycles.

App M2M

Services provided by M2M App• Events reporting• Events on map displaying• Assisted driving• High customizable dashboard• Personal contents management

App M2M

Events reportingEase of use thanks to a properly classified menu

App M2M

Events reportingEvents reporting assumes:

• Adding description

• Capturing picture

• Geolocalizing event

• Uploading to server

App M2M

Events on map displayingThe App can display events on the map and provide real time alerts related to the corrent position.

App M2M

Assisted drivingThe service allows to identify the driving style through real time kinematic parameters acquiring (GPS source).

Extended dashboard for professional users

Simplified dashboard for non-professional users

App M2M

Assisted drivingAcustic alerts related to critical scenarios ensure a safety drive behavior

App M2M

Assisted drivingThe user can receive information about accidents and/or road surface anomalies

App M2M

Assisted drivingThe application provides information about a Risk Index based on several factors.

App M2M

Risk index is evaluated based on:

• Historical accidents data• Density of road accesses and/or road intersections• Road surface anomalies• Vertical signs anomalies• Horizontal signs anomalies• Safety barriers anomalies• Actual speed vs design, registered, average, 75% speed

App M2MRisk Index

In order to consider the influence of each variable on the global level of risk, the following expression was used for the Risk Index calculation:

Where:• i is the class of event,• α is the weight assigned to each class of event, • x changes according to the number of occurrences of each type of event and it can assume the following values: 0.25 (first level), 0. 50 (second level), 1.0 (third level).

App M2M

Risk Index The following classes of events were collected using two data

sources: Road surface anomalies and irregularities, Problems related to horizontal and vertical signals, Anomalies of roadsides and safety barriers.

Data sources• Road Safety Inspection;• Professional users events reportsThree levels of risk have been defined:

  0 < RI≤0.3 0.3 <RI≤ 0.6 0.6 <RI≤ 1

RISK INDEX Low Medium High

App M2MRisk IndexThe proposed methodology was validated through a pilot study on a road test-site in province of Crotone (Calabria, south Italy). The values of the Risk Index estimated for some particular road segments were compared to the qualitative analysis obtained by a Road Safety Inspection of the same test site.

M2M software for PC

• M2m Software

M2M software for PC

• The software allows to select the following options: TRACKING VISUALIZATION

M2M software for PC

• The software allows to select the following options: DATA ANALYSIS

M2M software for PC

• The software allows to select the following options: DATA VISUALIZATION

M2M software for PC

• The software allows to select the following options: EXPORTING A DATA REPORT

M2M software for PC

• The software allows to select the following options: VISUALIZATION OF STATISTIC ANALYSIS ON

DATA