A Machine Learning Approach Based on Automotive Engine Data Clustering for Driver Usage Profiling Classification
The potential for processing car sensing data has increased in recent years due to the development of new technologies. Having this type of data is important, for instance, to analyze the way drivers behave when sitting behind steering wheel. Many studies have addressed the drive behavior by developing smartphone-based telematics systems. However, very little has been done to analyze car usage patterns based on car engine sensor data, and, therefore, it has not been been explored its full potential by considering all sensors within a car engine. Aiming to bridge this gap, this paper proposes the use of Machine Learning techniques (supervised and unsupervised) on automotive engine sensor data to discover drivers’ usage patterns, and to perform classification through a distributed online sensing platform. We believe that such platform can be useful used in different domains, such as fleet management, insurance market, fuel consumption optimization, CO2 emission reduction, among others.