Collaborative Vehicle Data Collection through Mobile and Web Technologies

Analyzing On-Board Diagnostics 2 (OBD-II) vehicle status data is highly useful for Smart Mobility research, but collection costs and competitiveness in the automotive sector currently prevent large-scale OBD dataset availability. Inspired by worldwide crowdsourcing efforts like OpenStreetMap (OSM) for cartography, we propose a framework based on open standards to enable collaborative collection of OBD data. Basic technological elements are: a fork of an open source OBD-II logger for Android, exploiting an extension of GPX data format for recording route logs enriched with OBD-II parameters; a Web platform enriching OSM to upload, manage and search routes with embedded OBD data. A full prototype has been developed to be exploited in Smart Mobility use cases.