In competitions approach, the users can take part in a time framed competition (a competition might last from 10 – 15 minutes depending on the locality) by subscribing to the open competitions (the competitions are opened on a timely basis) and exhibit better driving behavior to surpass the peers in competition. The term competition on this occasion can be defined as a geographical location associated with any road network in a city. In a competition, users are evaluated for their performance by the two green drive evaluators on the basis of vehicle signals (acceleration, brake, engine RPM, and speed) and the smartphone signals (GPS, accelerometer, and gyroscope). Once the user subscribes a competition, then the performance evaluation gets initiated, and the scores are transmitted from the evaluator module to the cloud server for every 2 minutes. The proportion of 2 minutes for the evaluation time frame corresponds to the time window to capture the driving behavior for a particular time limit and by various tests, the time frame of 2 minutes was determined as optimal evaluation interval. Once the scores get piled up in the cloud server, the average performance is computed from all the samples, and it is displayed on the smartphone application. The users can check the details, when they wait in traffic or when they have completed the trip.

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Each competition has separate rewards and time limits; these time limits can be customized based on the user requirements. But for the tests, the privileges were given to the moderator, where the moderator creates a competition and users can only participate, and they cannot modify the competition settings. On real-time deployment, the users can be given this privilege to setup competition, rewards, timeframe, and milestones. The SG_CB smartphone application comprises a competition tab, and the users can access it through their user profile. While on travel, the users can check the scores of their subscribed competitions and also can look for the fluctuations in scores based on the performance in competition. On completion of the competition, users can check their detailed report of scores, rankings, performances, and comparison with peers. The competition strategy, grant scores and generate the rankings based on the comparison of user performance with the performance of peers, so this aspect comprises an impact in evaluation from various users in the competition. Some virtual coins (depends based on moderator settings – for example: the user can get 100 virtual coins ,if he wins a competition) are also granted for scores secured in the competitions. Whilst, analyzing the performance in competition, the users are also assessed on harsh driving events such as harsh braking, high acceleration and high levels of engine RPM.

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At the end of the competition, the tracked harsh events are displayed on Google maps along with the harshness level (high or average) and this methodology would serve the purpose of training drivers by making aware of the harsh patterns exhibited during the drive.