Enhancing fleet management services via device-to-device communication

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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.