Continuous Supervision and Diagnostics System for Legacy Vehicles Integrated to Ambient Intelligence

Abstract

Maintenance aims to keep the vehicle in good working order and avoid unpleasant surprises, such as mechanical breakdown and component breakage due to damaged parts, increasing losses. Currently, to detect these problems, the On-Board Diagnostic II (OBD-II) is used to diagnose issues in the Electronic Control Unit (ECU). Data are obtained from it by employing adapters, and such data are used in various applications. Ambient intelligence (AmI) is an environment with several devices connected in a wired or wireless network to obtain data from users without knowing it to aid and automate routine tasks. In this way, we consider that can access the information a home AmI can offer through these devices. In this context, would it be possible to connect the car to the AmI to provide information that will help us avoid significant vehicle problems? This paper presents a system capable of sending vehicle information to the user's smartphone via the messaging app alerting that the vehicle is above average temperature.