Enhancing fleet management services via device-to-device communication

通过设备到设备通信增强车队管理服务

• 批准号: 514594-2017
• 负责人: Nikolaidis, Ioanis
• 金额: $ 1.79万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=640691
• 关键词: Enhancing; fleet; management; services; via

Latium Fleet Management Inc. (http://latiumfleet.com) is a two decades old Edmonton-based company,offering a variety of fleet-asset services. The Latium platform includes a number of tools that enable thecompany's clients to improve the efficiency of their operations, to better plan maintenance tasks, and, moreimportantly, to enhance the safety of their vehicle and asset fleets.The biggest challenge currently facing Latium's ability to expand their client base and their services is the factthat the company employ difficult and expensive to manufacture proprietary hardware devices, which sufferfrom limited (wireless) communication capacity, which, in turn, implies that only a fraction of the acquireddata is communicated to the back-end for analytics.The proposed project will, first, remove the reliance on proprietary hardware, and, second, enable flexiblecommunication capabilities. The enabler of communication flexibility that will be added is device-to-devicepeer-to-peer communication between on-board-units (OBUs) of vehicles of the same fleet. Hence, ahigher-throughput high-latency but inexpensive means of communication will be added to the low-throughputlow-delay but costly communication via cellular/satellite providers. As a result, vehicles will be endowed withthe ability (a) to perform urgent analysis on-board in real-time, and (b) to deliver fine-grained data to theLatium platform back-end for fleet-level analytics.

F1车队管理公司(http：latiumfleet.com）是一家拥有二十年历史的埃德蒙顿公司，提供各种车队资产服务。该平台包括一系列工具，使该公司的客户能够提高其运营效率，更好地规划维护任务，更重要的是，提高其车辆和资产车队的安全性。目前，该公司在扩大客户群和服务方面面临的最大挑战是，该公司采用了困难和昂贵的专有硬件设备，而无线通信能力有限，这意味着只有一小部分获取的数据被传送到后端进行分析。拟议的项目将首先消除对专有硬件的依赖，其次实现灵活的通信能力。将增加的通信灵活性的使能者是同一车队的车辆的车载单元（OBU）之间的设备到设备对等通信。因此，一种高吞吐量、高延迟但廉价的通信手段将被添加到通过蜂窝/卫星提供商进行的低吞吐量、低延迟但昂贵的通信中。因此，车辆将被赋予以下能力：（a）在车上实时执行紧急分析，以及（B）将细粒度数据交付给云平台后端，以进行车队级分析。