Utilizing CAN-Bus and smartphones to enforce safe and responsible driving

Road fatalities in Saudi Arabia are expected to reach an alarming rate of one death per hour in 2015. In this paper, we describe a framework for vehicular sensing that is directly aimed at instilling safe driving. The presented architecture utilizes access to vehicle´s CAN-Bus through an OBD-II connector. The access is processed using both on-vehicle smartphone and in-the-cloud processing. Road conditions (e.g., potholes, speedbumps, slowdowns, etc.) are recognized and utilized to classify roads using a threshold-based engine. The proposed framework is designed with strong emphasis on extendability, and a service application providing drivers with Quailty of Road (QoR) status is demonstrated.