Enhancing fleet management services via device-to-device communication

Latium Fleet Management Inc. （http://latiumfleet.com）是一家拥有20年历史的公司，总部位于埃德蒙顿，提供各种车队资产服务。Latium平台包括许多工具，使公司的客户能够提高运营效率，更好地规划维护任务，更重要的是，提高车辆和资产车队的安全性。Latium目前在扩大客户基础和服务方面面临的最大挑战是，该公司使用困难且昂贵的专有硬件设备来制造，这些设备受到有限的（无线）通信容量的影响，这反过来意味着只有一小部分获取的数据被传输到后端进行分析。提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推动者是同一车队车辆的车载单元（OBUs）之间的设备对设备点对点通信。因此，一种高吞吐量、高延迟但价格低廉的通信方式将被添加到通过蜂窝/卫星提供商进行的低吞吐量、低延迟但价格昂贵的通信中。因此，车辆将被赋予以下能力：(a)实时执行紧急分析，以及(b)将细粒度数据提供给latium平台后端进行车队级分析。

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.