Cloud drive: A computing architecture for a scalable driving safety management system

Abstract

In Japan, taxi, bus, and cargo truck operation companies are required by law to commit to driving safety management. Driving safety management is achieved by a cyclic process consisting of collecting sensory information, assessing driving safety, and improving driving based on the results. At this time, this is performed by transport company personnel. In this paper, an architecture and its implementation for a scalable driving safety management system are proposed. The system consists of smart devices and services provided by a cloud computing infrastructure. The smart devices are connected to 3G wireless networks used to collect and send sensory information such as video image sequences, acceleration, and GPS data. The services available in the cloud computing infrastructure are a time-series sensory data storage service, image analysis service for driving assessment, and real-time feedback service. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.