Telematics Service for Commercial Vehicles to Realize Safe Traffic Society

As operation management for commercial vehicles, services that use digital tachograph-based devices have become an industry-wide standard. Here a digital tachograph refers to a device approved by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism in Japan that records travel speeds and distances of a vehicle as needed. Digital data including travel speeds is used for visualizing the details of vehicle operation and for allowing the operation manager to give guidance on the operations. The data measured with a digital tachograph system have conventionally been recorded on a dedicated card, and then read and analyzed at the office to which the vehicle belongs. The telematics service for commercial vehicles presented in this paper further develops the digital tachograph described above. The service does not require a dedicated card, which is a mobile medium for the recorded data, and uses the FENICS wireless communication network to send the operation data to the cloud center in real time for analysis. At the cloud center, proprietary analysis middleware is used for analyzing the vehicle diagnosis information and driving operations of the driver based on the enormous amount of sensor data. These advanced forms of information and communications technology (ICT) allow unprecedented real-time provision of guidance on driving and hazard prediction.