2016 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering

A Remote Engine Health Management System based on Mobile

cloud computing*
Jian XIONG, Hong GU
School of Control Science and Engineering ,Dalian University of Technologies, Dalian, China
cd_xj@163.com, guhong@dlut.edu.cn

Abstract—ECU (Electronic Control Unit) of the engine can

not only control the engine, but also can monitor the working maintain the engine by themselves, system send precaution
condition ,diagnostic the faults of engine ,generate and save fault message to the customer by experts system. So that save the
code with DSM (Diagnostic System Management) module. This after-sales cost and fast the response time of service and
paper introduce a remote engine health management based on support the special service for the customer.
DSM and mobile cloud system which can collect the real time
working conditions and fault codes of the engine to the Big data
cloud platform. With the analysis and processing of these Big
data, it can help customers knowing about the engine health
condition in time, ant it can give the faults precaution , can
improve the availability of the engine. Meanwhile, it can help the
manufactories improving the performance and quality of new
products.

Keywords—Mobile cloud computing, Common Rail Engine,

ECU, OBD, EHM, Cloud computing, Big data, Crowd-sensing
I. INTRODUCTION Figure 1. The topological structure of remote EHM
With common rail diesel engine used in various industries,
there are many malfunction engines which needs the related III. DESIGN OF REMOTE EHM SYSTEM
staff to check, maintain, and troubleshooting on spot. It will As figure 2 shown, the architecture of the mobile cloud unit.
requires enormous amount of serviceman , money, and time. In It's the diagnostic interface of DSM which can supply one or
order to save the after-sales service cost and fast the response more communication protocol to support diagnostic
time , this paper introduced a kind of remote diagnostic method equipment to read the fault code and relative data flow. The
and health management system of common rail fuel engine main contents of software design is VCI (vehicle
based on mobile crowd-sensing cloud method. In this method, communication interface), it connect to the internet of vehicles,
we introduced and designed two kinds of multifunction crowd- consequently it can realize remote read and clear the faults
sensing terminals which construct an internet of vehicles to code . It can send the data to the service by different many
realize remote engine diagnostic and engine health ways according to different spot. It will send tremendous
management. The application of this mobile cloud EHM numbers data to the cloud computing server. The data have
(Engine Health Management) shown that it is not only be a three ways(directly GPRS/4G-LTE , communication of smart
diagnostic equipment with OBD (On Board Diagnostic)
phone ,WIFI of notebook) to be transmitted to the remote
interface based on mobile cloud, but also be a multifunction
cloud computing platform.
crowd-sensing system which can sense the engine health
condition.
II. DESIGN AIM OF THE REMOTE EHMS SYSETM
In this paper, we introduced the mobile cloud computing
method into Internet of vehicle to realize remote diagnostic
and engine health management. By means of this method, we
integrated the mobile cloud computing equipment, internet of
vehicles technologies, Big data system based on Hadoop,
remote wireless communication technologies and wire
communication technologies, crowd-sensing technologies. As
shown in Figure 1, It is the topological structure which based
on Mobile cloud crowd-sensing internet of vehicle. In order to
bring about distributed mobile cloud on-line monitoring,
remote diagnostic and health data sample, heterogeneous Figure 2. Architecture of mobile cloud terminal based on OBD
network posed by Ethernet, Blue Teeth CAN-bus, WIFI and The remote cloud computing platform is shown in Figure 3.
GPRS/4G is used in this system. By means of this topological It is a big data platform based on open source cloud
structure, our main aim is to realize that customer can computing environment Open-stack. According to the

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function, we build the architecture of Big Data with tree
layers as application layer, middle layer, infrastructure layer.
Figure 3. Architecture of Big Data based on Open Stack
At the cloud platform, there are many management tools
in Open-stack architecture ,such as Computing resource
management tool. It is very convenient for system engineer to
manage the data security of the Big Data, the load balance of
data, the firewall l of the network.
The application layer includes five parts. The first part is
remote management of cloud resource. The second part is
diagnostic service which stored the diagnostic data flow of all
the engine. Engine manufactories can analyze these data so
that they can assess the working status and healthy of the
engines. The third part is the big data platform .We make use
of Hadoop's MAP/Reduce to realize the distribute Big data
management. The fourth part is the expert system of
diagnostic. Expert systems are designed to solve complex
problems by reasoning about knowledge, The expert system of
diagnostic in this paper is divided into five sub-systems: the
man-machine inference, Inference engine, knowledge base,
Big data base , Knowledge acquisition .
Figure 4 Experts System of Diagnostic
As shown in Figure 4, the after-sale engineering group
who response to answer the question which cannot solve by
the experts system. Customers can connect to the after-sales
man by their mobile cloud terminal device which can send the
fault data flow transmit to the after-sale man. System can
record the all the data of the fault engine and all the method
that the after-sales man used to solve the trouble.
IV. APPLICATION AND RESULTS
By means of analysis and process of the cloud Big data,
system can establish a set of machine learning system to get
the relationship between the working condition and the
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diagnostic information. Analysis of history running data,
working condition, common mode failure, action data of the
driver, recorder of maintenance and repair, geographic
position and so on. All this information can be used to predict
the engine health and give suggestion and precaution to the
customer. As a result, it can deduce fault and accident, ensure
the vehicle running more safety.
Figure 5. Interface of the APP
Besides reading the engine information ,customers can read
the vehicle information( include driving data, combined fuel
consumption, transmission data) by the APP which shown in
figure 5. It also can do fuel system test such as common rail
pressure test, injector test, VCV(Volume Control Valve)
driving test by connecting this APP to the mobile terminal.
Experts system and after sales man can give the customer
more detail help and suggestion by send the tips and message
to this APP.
V. CONCLUSION
The system presented in this paper has been used in the real
internet of vehicles. System can sample the fault code and data
flow by the mobile cloud computing platform from the
vehicle to remote cloud. The mobile cloud terminal unit can
not only be a mobile crowd-sensing unit, but also be a simple
remote diagnostic equipment. The experts system and after-
sale group also can work for the customer with internet. The
experimental result shown that this remote engine health
management system has met the application targets. It has
great market value in the future.
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