IoT-Enabled Smart Vehicle Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance System
Abstract
The fast changing nature of connected vehicles requires smart systems that can monitor health in real-time and predict failures. This paper introduces an IoT-based Smart Vehicle Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance System that involves onboard sensors, edge computing, and cloud analytics to ensure high reliability and reduce unscheduled downtimes. Multi-modal transportation data (temperature, vibration, fuel consumption, and brake parameters) are continuously measured with the help of ESP32/Arduino devices connected to the CAN bus. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is an algorithm that does nonlinear sensor fusion at the edge to enhance data reliability and noise minimization. The degradation prediction and Remaining Useful Life estimation of the fused time-series data are done with a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network. A new adaptive thresholding system is used to dynamically regulate anomaly sensitivity according to driving context and historical trends. It was evaluated experimentally on 100,000 real-time sample divided into 70% training, 15% validation and 15% testing sample. The proposed framework was found to have 97.4% prediction accuracy with Precision (94.8%), Recall (95.6%), and F1-score (95.2%). EKF preprocessing minimized RMSE by 0.84, and it is a 56-percent improvement in estimation accuracy. The adaptive detection module reduced false positive rate to 4.1% which was 63% lower than the approaches to static threshold. The system forecasted failures almost 22 minutes earlier than it was actually detected which enhanced early detection by almost 30 percent. The edge deployment decreased latency by a factor of 4 to 160 ms, and thus, allowed the creation of nearly real-time alerts. The implementation of visualization and alert management was realized based on the use of Node-RED and Grafana dashboards, along with MQTT-based secure communication. All in all, the framework is statistically proven to be robust, scaled and applicable to next-generation intelligent vehicular IoT ecosystems.