Fault monitoring for vehicles

A system, comprising:

• a computer processor;
• and
• a computer memory containing a program that, when executed on the computer processor, performs an operation for processing data, comprising:
• receiving a fault event indication signal from a sensor on a vehicle;
• determining an amount of time that has elapsed since the vehicle previously output the fault event indication;
• determining a fault event resolution time period for the received fault event indication;
• including the fault event indication in a total number of instances of the fault event indication only if the determined amount of time is greater than the determined fault event resolution time period for the received fault event indication;
• upon receiving an indication that a service interruption occurred as a result of the fault event indication, including the service interruption in a total number of instances of service interruptions that occurred as a result of the fault event indication;
• calculating the probability of a service interruption for the fault event for the vehicle based on the total number of instances of the fault event for the vehicle and the total number of instances of service interruptions for the fault event for the vehicle;
• and
• outputting the calculated probability of a service interruption for the fault event to a messaging application, wherein the messaging application is executable by at least one computer processor to generate and transmit fault event messages upon the calculated probability of a service interruption for the fault event exceeding a predetermined threshold level.

A computer program product, comprising:

• a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code executable by one or more computer processors to:
• receive a fault event indication signal from a sensor on a vehicle;
• determine an amount of time that has elapsed since the vehicle previously output the fault event indication;
• determine a fault event resolution time period for the received fault event indication;
• include the fault event indication in a total number of instances of the fault event indication only if the determined amount of time is greater than the determined fault event resolution time period for the received fault event indication;
• upon receiving an indication that a service interruption occurred as a result of the fault event indication, include the service interruption in a total number of instances of service interruptions that occurred as a result of the fault event indication;
• calculate the probability of a service interruption for the fault event for the vehicle based on the total number of instances of the fault event for the vehicle and a total number of instances of service interruptions for the fault event for the vehicle;
• and
• output the calculated probability of a service interruption for the fault event to a messaging application, wherein the messaging application is executable by at least one computer processor to generate and transmit fault event messages upon the calculated probability of a service interruption for the fault event exceeding a predetermined threshold level.