AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR DETECTING PHONE DISTRACTION EVENTS AND METHOD THEREOF

An automated system, phone distraction detector and method for automatically detecting phone distraction events in a moving vehicle, caused by a driver of the moving vehicle by using a smartphone. An Internet of Things (IoT) server is communicatively coupled to the smartphone. The smartphone (comprises one or more sensors built into the smartphone, wherein sensory data of the one or more sensors, are captured by the sensors of the smartphone during a vehicle trip and are transmitted to the Internet of Things (IoT) server, and wherein the sensor data comprises one or more chunks of data streams associated with an IoT service from the smartphone. The sensory data are processed and analyzed by the server to identify one or more phone handling events associated with the smartphone during the vehicle trip. One or more phone handling events associated with the smartphone are aggregated into one or more macro events by the processing means of the server. The aggregated one or more macro events are processes by the server based on a set of preconfigured rules to determine a phone distraction event, wherein the set of preconfigured rules are based on predefined thresholds to determine the phone distraction event.