Fuel Savings Training Needs Prediction and Alert System

摘要

A novel fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system is capable of calculating a probability of persistent future fuel waste of a particular driver based on recent driving patterns originating from real-time on-board diagnostics (OBD) information of a vehicle. The fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system is also configured to generate and transmit one or more action items and alerts to a vehicle fleet operations manager or another supervisory personnel for improving driving behaviors of the particular driver. The fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system is typically either linked to or incorporated into the fuel waste variable identification and analysis system, which is capable of analyzing the real-time on-board diagnostics (OBD) information of the vehicle from a remote monitoring station unit. Preferably, various fuel waste variables are normalized with a novel metric called “RPG,” or “engine rotation per minute per gallon of fuel.”

主权项

1. A fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system comprising:
a vehicle on-board diagnostics (OBD) unit connected to an engine control unit or a vehicular control chipset of a vehicle to record, diagnose, and generate engine, vehicle dynamics, and fuel consumption data as streams of vehicle on-board diagnostics (OBD) data output; a fuel savings training needs prediction module that calculates a probability of persistent future fuel waste and a primary fuel waste variable of a particular driver by analyzing the streams of vehicle on-board diagnostics (OBD) data output that has been transmitted to and accumulated by the fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system, wherein the fuel savings training needs prediction module comprises a fuel waste pattern identification module, a fuel waste prediction module based on fuel waste pattern analysis, a driver training needs determination module, and a driver fuel waste pattern improvement determination module; a fuel savings training needs alert module that synthesizes and transmits a fuel savings training needs alert as a textual, aural, or multimedia alert to an electronic device accessed by a vehicle fleet operations manager or another supervisory personnel to the particular driver, wherein the fuel savings training needs alert module comprises a driver training needs alert message synthesis module, a driver training needs alert communication module, and a driver training confirmation and feedback module; and a semiconductor chip or a hardware device that contains the fuel savings training needs prediction module and the fuel savings training needs alert module.