D&RSense: Detection of Driving Patterns and Road Anomalies

Driving style analysis and road anomaly detection have a remarkable impact on road safety. They directly influence road accidents and have been a vital area of research in order to address road safety problems. In this paper, a system called D&RSense have been proposed that uses GPS and accelerometer of smartphones to categorize driving style of drivers, assess the road quality as well as to give real-time warnings to drivers in order to make driving safer. D&RSense does the categorization through detection of driving events like acceleration and braking and road anomalies like bumps and potholes by using the popular machine learning technique, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and gives real-time warning and instructions to drivers using a locally running Fast Dynamic Time Warping (FastDTW) algorithm. Extensive experiments have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system.