Standard Reports
Concept Description
Standard Reports is a scoring system based on driver’s behavior, viewed from 3 perspectives: Safety, Efficiency and Compliance.
These reports are dynamic, meaning that every day a script cron is running and updating the scores with data from the last 7 days for all our clients.
Technical Description
Overall Score
Your overall score is the combined score of all 3 main categories: Safety, Efficiency and Compliance. This score will let you know how well your fleet is performing over a period of time. It will give you the possibility to take calculated decisions to properly manage your drivers and improve those 3 categories. Each one of them is important for your fleet.
The first category assures that your fleet is safe and driving safely can cut down on collisions and save lives and money. Besides the physical risks of bad driving, there’s also the potential harm to your fleet’s reputation that could prove irredeemable if your drivers are at fault. Taking proactive measures to reduce collisions in your fleet is imperative.
The second one shows your company’s efficiency evolution and if you do increase your efficiency score, your fleet can save a lot of money. The question is, “How much fuel can I save by reducing my idle time?” The best answer is, “All of it”. Reducing unnecessary engine idle time is a highly effective way fleet operators can save fuel costs, extend the life of their vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The last one, compliance, focuses on identifying risky driving behavior so that it can be corrected before it leads to an accident or injury. By evaluating poor driving behaviors, you can identify inefficiencies and learn where you can make improvements. With these new metrics, you’ll gain a fundamental understanding of your fleet’s operation that you didn’t have before.
Safety Score
Your safety score consists of one component: safety violations. This component is calculated by recognizing events and their severity. This is done automatically for a reason. Using extreme cutting-edge technology, we combine Advanced Neural Networks with Computer Vision to determine which type of events leads to the least safe outcomes. For calculating the safety risk of dangerous events, we use the Idrive Database which contains over 80 million video events recorded in over 9 years. We use the number of occurrences for any type of events versus the number of accidents or dangerous behaviors triggered by drivers to establish a risk factor for every possible type of dangerous events. You may think that driving while talking on the phone is more or less safe than texting, but we prove the correct answer with science. Don’t be fooled by random scores based on “Best Guess”.
Efficiency Score
In addition to accidents and higher insurance costs, bad driving habits can also result in unnecessary fuel consumption. Fuel makes up roughly 34 percent of a fleet’s marginal costs. Poor driving habits such as hard breaking and speeding can waste fuel, incurring up to 33 percent in extra fuel costs. Idrive system can help your fleet use less fuel—and that increased efficiency can save your fleet money if you do increase your efficiency score.
The efficiency score consists of two types of data that our device permanently records and processes: Accelerometer data and idle time reported to total time of driving.
First component penalizes the driver’s aggressive behavior. In order to quantify this, we use the number of Hard Acceleration, Hard Braking, Hard Cornering events and their intensity. Each one of them has a different impact depending on their level of intensity.For example, a Hard Acceleration event is a higher level of acceleration. Exceeding the optimal level of acceleration recommended by each vehicle’s producer will exponential rise the fuel consumption.
Also, an important part of this component is the speed of the vehicle. How? You may ask. The latest studies show that the more speed you will have, the more your fuel consumption will increase, respectively your costs.
The second component is the idle time, which affects the fuel consumption of your fleet. The worst mileage a vehicle can get is 0 miles per gallon, which occurs when it idles. Idling for long periods of time, whether at a railroad crossing or pulling off the road to make a cell phone call, consumes gas that could be saved by simply turning off the engine. Using the latest automotive studies, we have designed algorithms which convert data in fuel consumption ratio by analyzing driver patterns and behaviors to quantify them in an efficiency score.
Compliance Score
The compliance score also has two components: compliance violations and idle time. The first component penalizes the driver’s aggressive behavior by counting the number of reviewed events and their intensity.
In order to receive accurate reports from our specialists, you will need to fill in a compliance form. This form allows you to specify exactly what you would like to see in the reports. Letting us know the level of importance for each review type, from 1 (the least important) to 5 (the most important), will help us better understand your fleet needs and we can adapt all the background smart algorithms to personalize the score for you. For example: in some companies a uniform may be mandatory for drivers but for other companies, a protection helmet may be required.
Our studies show that all reviewed events can be grouped into three main categories, depending on the level of severity: Compliance, Poor Driver Behavior and Severe Driver Behavior, from the least severe to the most severe. Each category has a default level of severity determined by our team like the optimal level. If you do want to personalize your score, you can prioritize the reviews, or you can just lean on pre-checked default levels.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Although some of these variables (like safety/efficiency/ compliance violations and idle time) are used in both safety and efficiency scores, they are processed from different perspectives.
Smart Events
Hard Acceleration (HA), Hard Braking (HB) and Hard Cornering (HC) are events automatically detected by our smart algorithm and they are a very important weighting factor in calculating scores. Whether your drivers make a dangerous turn, or they accelerate after a hard brake, these behaviors are the top causes of preventable accidents, and among the most difficult to visually detect. Until now. Our algorithm detects 3 levels of intensity for each smart event category and, as you probably guessed, a level 1 Hard Braking is not so dangerous as a level 3 and it has a different weight in the score. But, more than that, we don’t miss those level 0 events (we call them ‘almost Hard Braking’ because they don’t cross the level 1 threshold) and a driver with so many events from this type has a dangerous behavior and we definitely take into consideration this aspect when we calculate the score by penalizing the driver accordingly.
Because these events are automatically detected, whether it is driver’s fault or just a measure to avoid accidents, our review team analyses the video event and check the appropriate boxes so, don’t worry, your drivers won’t be mistakenly penalized.
Incidents
Incidents are categorized by their severity, from minor fender benders to major accidents. Our algorithms provide us crucial information regarding the drivers’ behavior and patterns. So, from a minor collision, to a real accident, whether there are victims or not, these incidents weight in the calculation of score much more than any other video events.
Most transportation companies already track collisions, with an eye to reducing them. Often the number of collisions is measured per 1,000 miles logged. This helps taking into account fluctuations in the business. Obviously, the goal is to keep the rate of collisions per mile as low as possible, but occasionally, this number will increase. If the increase is accompanied by an uptick in unavoidable near collisions, the root cause may be due to external factors such as bad weather or a jump in the overall number of vehicles on the road. Either scenario can point to the nature of additional training or driver resources to help compensate for those conditions.
Difference between drivers that need coaching and drivers with high score
According to their scores, some drivers may need coaching to improve their safety, efficiency or compliance score. This important information will allow you to make decisions regarding your fleet management.
Our indicator scores range from 0-10 and is calculated daily by default. The icon also changes color, based on the calculated score.
The driver’s score is calculated per day per distance so, if one of your drivers doesn’t work for a couple of day because he is sick, or he just took a vacation, he won’t have a score those days. His score for that week will be calculated just for the rest of the days. This is applied to each score component (Safety, Efficiency, Compliance).
Why coaching your drivers? To save time, money—and most importantly, lives. When you invest in your drivers, you’ll be rewarded with sustained changes that can help lower your fleet’s risk and improve productivity.
Health Report
The Health Report gives you system alerts and camera status. You get real time alerts, so that you can be aware at any time of how your system works and what you need to improve. From your Base Station running out of free space to your devices not having uploaded content for a while, these things are essential to make the Idrive System work.
We group the health information into 2 main categories: System and Camera. The first one brings into your attention live alerts regarding the well-functioning of your system (from warnings, like low disk space or backup error to critical, like service not running), while the other one gives you information about your devices and how are they performing in the system (overdue for download, unassigned to a vehicle etc.)