Electronic System for Dynamic, Quasi-Realtime Measuring and Identifying Driver Maneuvers Solely Based on Mobile Phone Telemetry, and a Corresponding Method Thereof

An electronic accident causation and accident risk measuring system in real time based on dynamically measured telematics data, wherein driver behaviors and operational parameters are measured and discriminated by the system based on automatically individuated driver maneuvers within various measured vehicle trajectories, and wherein an output signal is generated based upon derived risk measure parameters and/or crash attitude measure parameters, the system comprising:

• circuitry configured to
• capture data from mobile telematics devices are associated with a plurality of motor vehicles, the telematics devices comprising one or more wireless or wired connections and a plurality of interfaces for connecting with at least one of a vehicle's data transmission busses and/or a plurality of interfaces for connecting with sensors and/or measuring devices, wherein, for providing the wireless connection, the telematics device acts as a wireless node within a corresponding data transmission network by antenna connections of the telematics device, and wherein the telematics devices are connected to an onboard diagnostics system and/or an in-car interactive device and/or a monitoring cellular mobile node application, and wherein the telematics devices capture usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data of the motor vehicle and/or user,
• implement a dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit to which the plurality of mobile telematics devices are connected, wherein a data link is set by the wireless connection between the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit transmitting at least the captured usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data from the mobile telematics devices to the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit,
• for driver maneuver identification, match sequential patterns of the captured usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data are matched with searchable predefined measuring parameter sets of driving maneuvers by the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit, wherein the dynamic time warping- based telematics circuit stores the searchable predefined driving maneuvers, wherein each driving maneuver is composed of a plurality of hierarchically structured operation measuring parameter sets, wherein a specific operation or driving feature of a vehicle is separately identifiable and triggerable based on a corresponding operation parameter set, wherein each driving maneuver is composed of sequential patterns of operations or driving features by the hierarchical structure, which are each extractable and measurable by the measuring telematics parameters exhibiting during a lifespan of a driving maneuver, and wherein sequential patterns of the captured usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data are matched with the searchable predefined measuring parameter sets of driving maneuvers by the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit,
• for pattern template identification, store searchable predefined measuring parameter pattern templates of driving maneuvers, wherein each single driver maneuver is composed of a plurality of prototypical parameter patterns, wherein a individuated time interval is measured spanning the duration of a captured maneuver pattern by the telematics circuit, the measured individuated time interval is used as a time index to extract the portions of features effectively corresponding to a selected maneuver, wherein, for each captured maneuver pattern and each operation or feature, a similarity measurement of the detected operation and/or feature profiles is performed ranging over possible trajectories used as a benchmark and highly correlated operations or features are selected, and
• automatically individuate captured driver maneuvers within the various car trajectories provided by the matched searchable measuring parameter sets of driving maneuvers and the measured pattern templates of driving maneuvers, wherein, for two temporal sequences within the captured usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data, a temporal variation-independent measuring parameter is measured, each time, by the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit, wherein the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit provides an optimal match for the two temporal sequences by non-linearly warping the temporal sequences in the time dimension, and wherein one of the two temporal sequences, which comprise two time series, is locally stretched or compressed while optimizing the measured similarity between the two temporal sequences of usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data.

An accident causation and accident risk measuring method in real time based on dynamically measured telematics data, wherein driver behaviors and operational parameters are measured and discriminated by an accident causation and risk measuring system based on automatically individuated driver maneuvers within various measured vehicle trajectories, and wherein an output signal is generated based upon derived risk measure parameters and/or crash attitude measure parameters, the method comprising:

• associating, using circuitry, mobile telematics devices with a plurality of motor vehicles, with the telematics devices comprising one or more wireless or wired connections and a plurality of interfaces for connection with at least one of a vehicle's data transmission buses and/or a plurality of interfaces for connection with sensors and/or measuring devices, wherein, for providing the wireless connection, the telematics device acts as a wireless node within a corresponding data transmission network by antenna connections of the telematics device, and wherein the telematics devices are connected to an onboard diagnostic system and/or an in-car interactive device and/or a monitoring cellular mobile node application, and wherein the telematics devices capture usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data of the motor vehicle and/or user,
• connecting, using the circuitry, the plurality of mobile telematics devices associated with the motor vehicles to a dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit implemented in the circuitry, wherein a data link is created by the wireless connection between the dynamic time warping based telematics circuit transmitting at least the captured usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data from the mobile telematics devices to the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit,
• matching, using the circuitry, for driver maneuvers identification, sequential patterns of the captured usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data with searchable predefined measuring parameter sets of driving maneuvers by the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit, wherein the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit stores the searchable predefined driving maneuvers, wherein each driving maneuver is composed of a plurality of hierarchically structured operation measuring parameter sets, wherein a specific operation or driving feature of a vehicle is separately identifiable and triggerable based on a corresponding operation parameter set, wherein each driving maneuver is composed of sequential patterns of operations or driving features by the hierarchical structure, which are each extractable and measurable by the measuring telematics parameters exhibiting during the lifespan of a driving maneuver, and wherein sequential patterns of the captured usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data are matched with the searchable predefined measuring parameter sets of driving maneuvers by the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit,
• storing, for pattern template identification, in the dynamic time warping-based telematics circuit, searchable predefined measuring parameter pattern templates of driving maneuvers, wherein each single driver maneuver is composed of a plurality of prototypical parameter patterns, wherein an individuated time interval is measured spanning the duration of a captured maneuver pattern by the telematics circuit, the measured individuated time interval is used as a time index to extract the portions of features effectively corresponding to a selected maneuver, wherein for each captured maneuver pattern and each operation or feature, a similarity measurement of the detected operation and/or feature profiles is performed ranging over possible trajectories and used as a benchmark and highly correlated operations or features are selected, and
• automatically individuating, using the circuitry, captured driver maneuvers within the various car trajectories provided by the matched searchable measuring parameter sets of driving maneuvers and the measured pattern templates of driving maneuvers, wherein, for two temporal sequences within the captured usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data, a temporal-variation independent measuring parameter is measured, each time, by the dynamic time warping based telematics circuit, wherein the dynamic time warping based telematics circuit provides an optimal match between the two temporal sequences by non-linearly warping the temporal sequences in the time dimension, and wherein one of the two temporal sequences, which comprise two time series, is locally stretched or compressed while optimizing the measured similarity between the two temporal sequences of usage-based and/or user-based and/or operation-based telematics data.