Predictive Maintenance of Vehicle Fleets Using Hierarchical Modified Fuzzy Support Vector Machine for Industrial IoT Datasets

Abstract

Connected vehicle fleets are deployed worldwide in several industrial internet of things scenarios. With the gradual increase of machines being controlled and managed through networked smart devices, the predictive maintenance potential grows rapidly. Predictive maintenance has the potential of optimizing uptime as well as performance such that time and labor associated with inspections and preventive maintenance are reduced. It provides better cost benefit ratios in terms of business profits. In order to understand the trends of vehicle faults with respect to important vehicle attributes viz mileage, age, vehicle type etc. this problem is addressed through hierarchical modified fuzzy support vector machine which acts as predictive analytics engine for this problem. The proposed method is compared with other commonly used approaches like logistic regression, random forests and support vector machines. This helps better implementation of telematics data to ensure preventative management as part of the desired solution. The superiority of the proposed method is highlighted through several experimental results.