On-Board Vehicle Fault Monitoring System

The paper proposes a user-friendly cloud-based data acquisition and analytics system for vehicle diagnostic monitoring in real time. The vehicle's condition is assessed using the On-board diagnostics (OBD) framework and the report is sent to the mobile of the driver via Wi-Fi on detection of unsafe and anomalous events in real time. Vehicle parameter values are instantaneously uploaded to the server. The smartphone app also visualizes data from the sensor and also generates warnings in real time. It establishes a vehicle’s OBD connection and provides communication with mobile using the internet for vehicles that don’t have a facility of an integrated vehicle interface. With the system, external sensors can be attached to a vehicle to enhance its performance. Most of the vehicles on the roads do not have this infrastructure and this is often seen in luxury automobiles. This vehicle communication system can be mounted on all vehicles independently, utilizing the proposed system at a cheaper cost.