Eco-driving: energy saving based on driver behavior

Ponencia presentada en: XVI Jornadas de ARCA sobre Sistemas Cualitativos y sus Aplicaciones en Diagnosis, Robótica e Inteligencia Ambiental (JARCA 2014), celebrado los días del 24/06/2014 a 27/06/2014, en Rota, Cádiz (España)The number of vehicles has grown in recent years. As a result, it has increased the fuel consumption and the emission of gaseous pollutants. The emission of gaseous pollutants causes more deaths than traffic accidents. On the other hand, the energy resources are limited and the increase in demand causes them even more expensive. In addition, the percentage of old vehicles is very high. Eco-driving is a good solution in order to minimize the fuel consumption because it is independent of the vehicle age. In this paper, a driving assistant is presented. This solution allows the user acquires knowledge about eco-driving. Unlike other solutions, our proposal adapts the recommendations to the user profile. It also provides information in advance such as: optimal average speed, anomalous events, deceleration pattern, and so on. These recommendations prevent that the user performs inefficient actions. In these type of systems, motivation is very important. Drivers lose the interest over time. To solve this problem, we employ gamification techniques that contribute to avoid drivers coming back to their previous driving habitsThe research leading to these results has received funding from the “HERMES-SMART DRIVER” project TIN2013-46801-C4-2-R within the Spanish "Plan Nacional de I+D+I" under the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad funded projects (co-financed by the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)) IRENE (PT-2012-1036- 370000), COMINN (IPT-2012-0883-430000) and REMEDISS (IPT-2012-0882-430000) within the INNPACTO program.Publicad