Dynamic delivery of vehicle event data
An improved system and method of selectively transmitting asset data from one or more sensors associated with the vehicle to a backend server, which is configured to analyze the asset data and, if necessary for further analysis of the asset data (e.g., to determine whether a safety event has occurred) and/or to provide actionable data for review by a safety analyst, requests further asset data from a vehicle device.
1. A method performed by an event analysis system having one or more hardware computer processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable storage device storing software instructions executable by the event analysis system, the method comprising:
generating user interface data configured to display one or more user interfaces indicating at least:
a first safety event type,
a first threshold,
a first user adjustable control configured to receive first input from a user to adjust the first threshold;
a second safety event type,
a second threshold, and
a second user adjustable control configured to receive second input from the user to adjust the second threshold;
determining the first threshold and the second threshold based on user input via the one or more user interfaces;
providing the first and second thresholds to each of a plurality of safety event detection devices,
wherein a first safety event detection device associated with a first vehicle is configured to,
in response to first sensor data associated with the first vehicle exceeding the first threshold, determining first asset data associated with the first safety event type, and transmit the first asset data to the event analysis system; and
in response to second sensor data associated with the first vehicle exceeding the second threshold, determining second asset data associated with the second event type, and transmit the second asset data to the event analysis system.
2. The method of claim 1 , the first threshold indicates a G force threshold.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first threshold is associated with a first type of vehicle.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more user interfaces further includes a reset control that selectable by to set the first threshold to a first default threshold and to set the second threshold to a second default threshold.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more user interfaces further indicates:
a third safety event type,
a third threshold,
a third user adjustable control configured to receive third input from a user to adjust the third threshold.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the first safety event type is harsh acceleration, the second safety event type is harsh braking, and the third safety event type is harsh turning.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first user adjustable control is a slider.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first asset data includes one or more of: video files, still images, audio data, accelerometer data, global positioning system (GPS) data, ECU data, vehicle speed data, forward camera object tracking data, driver facing camera data, and hand tracking data.
9. A computerized method, performed by a computing system having one or more hardware computer processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable storage device storing software instructions executable by the computing system to perform the computerized method comprising:
generating user interface data configured to display one or more user interfaces indicating at least:
a first safety event type;
a first vehicle type;
a first threshold;
a first user adjustable control configured to receive first input from a user to adjust the first threshold associated with the first vehicle type;
a second vehicle type;
a second threshold; and
a second user adjustable control configured to receive second input from the user to adjust the second threshold associated with the second vehicle type;
determining the first threshold and the second threshold based on user input via the one or more user interfaces;
providing the first and second thresholds to each of a plurality of safety event detection devices;
wherein a first safety event detection device associated with a first vehicle of the first vehicle type is configured to, in response to first sensor data associated with the first vehicle exceeding the first threshold, determine first asset data to transmit to an event analysis system; and
wherein a second safety event detection device associated with a second vehicle of the second vehicle type is configured to, in response to second sensor data associated with the second vehicle exceeding the second threshold, determine second asset data to transmit to the event analysis system.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first safety event type is harsh braking, harsh acceleration, or harsh turning.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first vehicle type is passenger, light duty, or heavy duty.
12. The method of claim 9 , the first threshold indicates a G force threshold.
13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first asset data are received via a cellular data communication network.
14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first asset data includes at least some of the first sensor data.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the first asset data includes at least one video file.
16. A system having a hardware computer processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium having software instructions stored thereon, the software instructions executable by the hardware computer processor to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
generating user interface data configured to display one or more user interfaces indicating at least:
a first safety event type,
a first threshold,
a first user adjustable control configured to receive first input from a user to adjust the first threshold;
a second safety event type,
a second threshold, and
a second user adjustable control configured to receive second input from the user to adjust the second threshold;
determining the first threshold and the second threshold based on user input via the one or more user interfaces;
providing the first and second thresholds to at least a first safety event detection device;
wherein a first safety event detection device associated with a first vehicle is configured to,
in response to first sensor data associated with the first vehicle exceeding the first threshold, determining first asset data associated with the first safety event type, and transmit the first asset data to an event analysis system; and
in response to second sensor data associated with the first vehicle exceeding the second threshold, determining second asset data associated with the second safety event type, and transmit the second asset data to the event analysis system.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the first sensor data includes one or more of: video files, still images, audio data, accelerometer data, global positioning system (GPS) data, ECU data, vehicle speed data, forward camera object tracking data, driver facing camera data, and hand tracking data.
18. The system of claim 16 , wherein the first asset data includes at least some of the first sensor data and sensor data from one or more additional sensors.
19. The system of claim 16 , wherein the first sensor data comprises accelerometer data.
20. The system of claim 16 , wherein the first safety event type is one or more of a collision, harsh acceleration, harsh braking, or harsh turning.