Health drive: Mobile healthcare onboard vehicles to promote safe driving

Abstract

© 2015 IEEE. This paper proposes Health Drive, a novel mobile healthcare platform with context-aware multiple-sensor integration to promote safe driving. Health Drive employs a multi-tier vehicular social network (M-VSN) architecture that consists of three tiers: network tier, mobile device tier and cloud tier. The network tier provides communication supports, and the mobile device tier works in parallel with the cloud tier to integrate and interpret diverse sensing data. The three tiers work together to provide a seamless solution that can efficiently collect and interpret diverse sensing data in the heterogeneous environments found in vehicular networks, to deliver personalized service to drivers for safety improvement in real-time. We evaluate the system performance of Health Drive and provide results of practical experiments to show the desired functionality and feasibility of Health Drive in the real-world for safety improvement in transportation.