Battery efficient automatic mileage tracking

A system for reducing battery consumption while automatically tracking mileage, comprising:

• a mobile device comprising a geolocation sensor, a computer processor, and a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the computer processor to:
• initiate, by activating the geolocation sensor, tracking of global positions of the mobile device;
• obtain a first global position of the mobile device corresponding to the first location, wherein the first global position comprises a first timestamp;
• add the first global position to a first global position sequence of the first trip;
• detect, using a plurality of trip updating parameters, a sequence of trip updating events for the first trip,
• wherein one or more trip updating events of the sequence of trip updating events corresponds to an updated location of the mobile device,
• wherein the plurality of trip updating parameters comprises an update distance, an update period, and a threshold velocity, and
• wherein detecting the one or more trip updating events comprises:
• when a velocity of the mobile device is below the threshold velocity, determining that a distance from the updated location to a most recently obtained global position of the first global position sequence is at least the update distance, and
• when the velocity of the mobile device is at least the threshold velocity, determining that an elapsed time from a timestamp of the most recently obtained global position of the first global position sequence is at least the update period;
• obtain a sequence of updated global positions corresponding to the sequence of trip updating events, wherein each updated global position of the sequence of updated global positions comprises an updated timestamp;
• add each updated global position of the sequence of updated global positions to the first global position sequence;
• and
• a data repository storing at least the first trip.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method for reducing battery consumption while automatically tracking mileage, comprising:

• initiating, by activating a geolocation sensor of a mobile device, tracking of global positions of the mobile device;
• obtaining a first global position of the mobile device corresponding to the first location, wherein the first global position comprises a first timestamp;
• adding the first global position to a first global position sequence of the first trip;
• detecting, using a plurality of trip updating parameters, a sequence of trip updating events for the first trip,
• wherein one or more trip updating events of the sequence of trip updating events corresponds to an updated location of the mobile device,
• wherein the plurality of trip updating parameters comprises an update distance, an update period, and a threshold velocity, and
• wherein detecting the one or more trip updating events comprises:
• when a velocity of the mobile device is below the threshold velocity, determining that a distance from the updated location to a most recently obtained global position of the first global position sequence is at least the update distance, and
• when the velocity of the mobile device is at least the threshold velocity, determining that an elapsed time from a timestamp of the most recently obtained global position of the first global position sequence is at least the update period;
• obtaining a sequence of updated global positions corresponding to the sequence of trip updating events, wherein each updated global position of the sequence of updated global positions comprises an updated timestamp;
• adding each updated global position of the sequence of updated global positions to the first global position sequence;
• and
• calculating a length of the first trip.