Hitachi, Ltd.

Anthony Ohazulike

Peter Hohmann

It is described at least a method for performing vehicle operation analysis of a driver, comprising retrieving data related to the operation of the vehicle via a mobile device, wherein the mobile device is placed inside the vehicle and the retrieved data is data that is at least provided by data providing units included in the mobile device; adding a driver-specific identifier to the retrieved data which identifies the driver of the vehicle irrespective of the vehicle that is used; performing analysis of the retrieved data in the mobile device, and/or sending the retrieved data to a remote computer and performing analysis of said data in the remote computer, wherein the analysis includes extracting driver-specific vehicle operation schemes and/or calculating a driver-specific safety factor.

Vehicle operation analysis of a driver

A method and an apparatus are provided for determining brake wear of a vehicle. A brake wear estimation includes determining, for each of one or more time periods during which a vehicle brake is actuated, a speed of the vehicle at a start time of the respective time period and a speed change parameter indicative of a change of speed of the vehicle during the respective time period. The estimation additionally includes determining, for each of the one or more time periods, a respective brake wear parameter indicative of brake wear of one or more vehicle brakes during the respective time period based on the speed of the vehicle at the start time of the respective time period, the speed change parameter indicative of the change of speed of the vehicle during the respective time period, and the mass or weight of the vehicle.

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Anthony Ohazulike