Hybrid Coaching Module for Fuel Efficient Driving
IoT and machine learning based solution for corelating usage patterns with fuel consumption
Global Automotive Industry Leaders
Challenge
- Vehicle owners’ complaints that hybrid vehicle mileage wasn’t living up to expectations.
- Drivers’ lack of knowledge about the most fuel-efficient ways to drive hybrid vehicles.
- Persistent lags in data arriving in connected vehicles, preventing realtime updates.
- System architecture unsuited to requirements for high speed, volume and bandwidth.
Solution
- Tapped on to vehicle usage data such as acceleration, braking, location, fuel consumption etc. from sensors using IoT based solution.
- Aggregated trip data in cloud correlating usage events to fuel consumption using ML.
- Calculated a driver score for trips.
- Driver score information was provided back to user on their integrated mobile apps effectively coaching the user for fuel efficient driving.
- Secure & scalable architecture on AWS.
Technologies
Benefits
- Reduced customer complaints by 50%.
- Helped a cross section of North American customers achieve their best fuel efficiency from hybrid vehicles.
- Revealed that a majority of hybrid vehicle owners have a rough idea of their fuel usage. Nearly 75% have a very precise understanding and 86% check their fuel consumption regularly.
- Enabled users to use better driver scores to lower insurance premium.