Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
  • G07C5/008—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles communicating information to a remotely located station
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
  • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
  • G08G1/01—Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled
  • G08G1/0104—Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
  • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method and a device for determining driving performance-related data of one or more vehicles integrated in a system and a correspondingly equipped vehicle.
• data of the driving performance are transmitted vehicle specific to a central electronic device via communication links by vehicles integrated in the method.
• a communication connection may be, for example, a GSM connection, but other wireless communication connections are also conceivable.
• driving performance-related data for the respective vehicle are determined by the central electronic device.
• This may be a variable leasing rate or a variable insurance premium or only a variable partial leasing rate or insurance premium if it consists of a fixed share determined from the vehicle data and a variable share.
• Such a determination of charges for a vehicle has the advantage that the fees arise depending on use.
• Another advantage is that, for example, maintenance intervals for vehicles integrated into a system can be determined centrally in the central electronic device and the corresponding vehicles can be called for maintenance.
• the data of the driving performance of the vehicle which were detected or calculated after the last transmission of the data, sent to the central electronic device, which can be easily established the time reference to the data of the mileage.
• the data of the driving performance are sent to the central electronic device at predefined time intervals, for example every 24 hours, but also longer or shorter time intervals are conceivable.
• the communication device or another processing device in the vehicle checks whether the predefined time interval for transmitting the data of the driving performance is exceeded. If so, the data of the mileage is sent to the central electronic device.
• the central electronic device retrieves the data of the driving performance of the vehicle or requests the communication device of the vehicle to send the data of the driving performance. This is particularly advantageous if the predefined time interval has been exceeded longer since the last reception of the data by the central electronic device.
• the data of the driving performance are automatically transmitted as a function of the occurrence of defined events with respect to the driving operation of the vehicle and received by the central electronic device accordingly.
• further data is sent to the central electronic device.
• any type of combination is conceivable even with the transmission of the predefined time intervals. It can also be provided that the transmission of the data can be initiated manually in the vehicle.
• the driving-related data for the vehicle which has sent the data depending on the Difference of the data of the driving performance of the last received data of the mileage and the current data is calculated.
• Another possibility is that the data of the mileage, which were sent in several time periods from the vehicle or received by the central electronic device, are summarized and used to determine the mileage-related data.
• the data of the mileage is assigned automatically or manually specifiable specific properties that are taken into account in the determination of the driving performance-related data.
• a property is here, for example, conceivable, whether it is a commercially driven route or a privately driven route or if it is a predominantly driven in city traffic route or a highway ride.
• the mileage-related data may include additional data, such as the acceleration of the vehicle and / or the tire pressure of the vehicle wheels and / or the oil pressure in the prime mover and / or the rotational speed of the engine during the driven route and / or location data of the vehicle and / or route-specific data.
• the transmission of the data is encrypted.
• the device according to the invention has a central electronic device, which can consist of one or more sub-devices, which may also have different locations.
• the central electronic device receives data about the driving performance of system-integrated vehicles transmitted from communication devices of the vehicles via the build-up communication links, and obtains travel performance-related data at least in response to the received vehicle driving performance data for the vehicle that transmitted the data such as variable lease or partial lease rates or insurance premiums for a given period of time.
• the received data of the mileage of one or more time periods can be taken into account for the determination of the mileage-related data.
• the data of the mileage of the vehicles are transmitted by the vehicles at these predefined time intervals and received by the central electronic device.
• the central electronic device is designed such that when the predefined time intervals are exceeded after the last reception of the data of the driving performance, the data is retrieved from the vehicle. It can be provided that the data is not retrieved immediately at the exceeding of the predefined time intervals, but only after exceeding a missed time, which is also longer than the predefined time interval for receiving the data of the mileage. Furthermore, it can be provided that the retrieval of the data occurs when a defined event occurs.
• the central electronic device is designed such that the driving performance-related data for the transmitting vehicle in dependence on the difference of the driving performance of the last received data and the data of the vehicle, which were received a period earlier calculated.
• the central electronic device is designed such that the data of the mileage for the vehicle which has sent the data is accumulated over several periods and only in defined intervals the mileage-related data from the summed up data of the mileage is calculated.
• Another embodiment of the invention provides that the data of the driving performance received from the central electronic device are assigned specific characteristics in connection with the transmitting vehicle, which are taken into account in the determination of the mileage-related data by the central electronic device.
• the focus for the data of the driving performance of the vehicle is on the driven distance of the vehicle during the predefined period of time.
• the data of the mileage may also include, for example, data on the acceleration behavior of the vehicle and / or the tire pressure of the vehicle wheels and / or the oil pressure and / or the rotational speed of the prime mover and / or location data and / or data of the traveled route network during the predefined period of time ,
• the central electronic device is designed according to a preferred embodiment of the invention such that the data of the driving performance of the vehicle can be received encrypted and decrypted in it or be decrypted.
• the invention relates to a vehicle, which is integrated in a system for determining driving-related data of vehicles in a central electronic device.
• the vehicle has a device for detecting or determining data of the driving performance of the vehicle, which is connected to a communication device in the vehicle.
• the communication device is designed such that the detected or determined data of the mileage, in particular the data of the mileage, which have been determined or recorded since the last transmission to the central electronic device, are sent via a communication link to the central electronic device.
• the data of the mileage is continuously determined or recorded by the device for detecting or determining the data of the mileage and stored in a memory device of the vehicle until the next transmission. It can be provided that not the determined or acquired data are stored or sent, but from this data determined data. It is also conceivable to determine or calculate the data at defined time intervals, wherein the time intervals for determining or calculating the data of the driving performance can be equal to the time intervals for transmission.
• the communication device or another processing device of the vehicle checks whether the predefined time interval for transmitting the data of the driving performance is exceeded. If so, the data of the mileage is sent from the communication device to the central electronic device.
• the communication device or another processing device of the vehicle is designed such that when a defined event, the data of the driving performance are sent to the central electronic device.
• a device for automatically or manually initiating the transmission of the data of the driving performance is provided in the vehicle.
• the driver can, for example, trigger a transmission of the data manually after a long time of the vehicle.
• Another embodiment of the invention provides that the data of the driving performance in the vehicle automatically or via an input device manually specifiable specific properties can be assigned and / or assigned, which are considered and / or taken into account in the determination of the mileage-related data in the central electronic device.
• Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of a system with a device according to the invention and two vehicles according to the invention shown by way of example.
• the basic idea of the invention is to determine leasing rates and / or insurance premiums and / or other conceivable charges as a function of data of the driving performance of the individual vehicles in a central electronic device 1 for vehicles integrated in a system.
• the central electronic device 1 takes over in addition to receiving the data of the mileage of the vehicles, the storage, possibly the distribution and further processing of the received data.
• the charges mentioned can be determined by the central electronic device 1 in its entirety variably as a function of the data of the mileage.
• the respective fee can also consist of a fixed share and / or the share of the mileage-related component.
• the invention provides the possibility of managing maintenance calls for the integrated vehicles as a function of the driving performance in the central electronic device, for example for fleet vehicles.
• the central electronic device consists of a single central processing device or a network of several central facilities that share the tasks of the central electronic device.
• each of the vehicles 3 has a device 2 for detecting or determining data for the driven distance of the vehicle.
• This can be, for example, a device already present in the vehicle for other purposes or an additionally installed device, as described, for example, in DE 10 2007 024 692.
• the signals of wheel speed sensors or satellite-based position signals are used.
• satellite-based position signals an information for the detection of the driving operation of the vehicle is also evaluated in order to evaluate when transporting the vehicle, this not as own driving performance of the vehicle.
• the device 2 the vehicles 3 transmits at predefined intervals or after initiation via the input device 5 in the vehicle or even after retrieval from the central electronic device 1, the data of the mileage of their vehicle 3 by the communication device 4 and a buildable communication link 6 to the central electronic device whose communication device 7 receives the data.
• a communication connection all today already known and in the future still developed wireless communication connections come into question.
• the mileage-related data of the respective vehicle 3 can be determined or recorded continuously and also at certain time intervals by the device 2 and optionally processed and stored until transmission to the central electronic device 1.
• the data of the mileage data of the acceleration and braking behavior of the vehicle In addition to the data of the distance traveled, the data of the mileage data of the acceleration and braking behavior of the vehicle, the engine speed characteristics, the oil or tire pressure, fuel consumption, the coolant temperature, the engine oil temperature or other data, such as direction, average speed between two measurements, location information altitude profiles of the distance traveled included in this context. Furthermore, the data of the mileage characteristics, for example, whether it is a private or official driven route, are assigned.
• the central electronic device determines the corresponding mileage-related data, for example the leasing rate or insurance premium for the respective vehicle for a certain period of time, for example for one month each.
• the time intervals for the reception of the data of the mileage and the determination of the mileage-related data do not match, it can be provided that the vehicles 3 every 24 hours to send, the determination of the mileage-related data takes place only in a monthly rhythm.
• different predefined time intervals for the transmission and / or the determination of the mileage-related data can be set.
• a vehicle 3 does not respond after the defined time interval has elapsed, the data of the mileage is retrieved by the central electronic device 1 via the communication link 6. However, it can also be provided that only after expiry of a further predefined time interval for the transmission of the data the mileage is a call. Kön- If the data is not received by the device 4 or its communication device even when the central electronic device is called up, or if the data is not consistent with the intended use of the vehicle, an abuse or theft warning can be generated for the vehicle. This warning can also be done without expiration of two or more elapsed predefined timings without receiving the data of the mileage of the vehicle 3.
• the transmission of the data of the mileage or the retrieval of the data via the communication links 6 is encrypted according to already known methods.

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