Amela
DriveAcademy Co., Ltd. - New Platform Launch Story
ℹī¸ŽFor confidentiality, company names, project names, and system images have been replaced with pseudonyms and mocks.

Both lesson records and operations management,In-house build from scratchto in-vehicle IoT.

DriveLog is a driving-instruction platform that automates everything from retrieving training-car schedules to recording and voice logging of drives via in-vehicle IoT, managing it all centrally in the cloud. It supports instruction quality with data.

"Record automation, instruction review, operations management, vehicle & device management" - the story of launching a new platform: an IoT foundation satisfying all four pillars of driving instruction at once, built in-house from scratch in 8 months.

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Record
In-vehicle IoTAutomatic
Record and log drives
Review
Voice-> text
Visualize instruction content
Management
CentralizedManagement
Schools, instructors, vehicles
Robustness
OffLine support
Sync when connectivity recovers
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Vehicle
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Online
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Today's lessons
Car No. 1
Car No. 2
Car No. 3
01
CLIENT
About the client

"DriveAcademy Co., Ltd." - one of the nation's leading driving schools, supporting regional traffic safety.

DriveAcademy Co., Ltd. is an operator running driving instruction services. With many training cars and instructors, they needed to support safe, high-quality instruction through efficient operations.

Meanwhile, lesson records relied on handwriting and memory, making review and quality standardization difficult. We chose to build from scratch in-house a platform that automates records with in-vehicle IoT and supports instruction and operations with data.

Record
Automatic
Integration
In-vehicle IoT
Management
Cloud
Business flow - In-vehicle IoT to Records to Cloud to Evaluation
1
STEP
In-vehicle device starts up
Retrieve schedule via device code
2
STEP
Log the drive
Recording + voice-to-text
3
STEP
Sync to the cloud
Aggregate and store in AWS S3
4
STEP
Review and evaluation
Improve instruction via admin console
02
CHALLENGE
Design challenges to solve

Four structural requirements underpinning instruction quality and operational efficiency.

None of these were technology-selection problems, but business requirements directly tied to instruction quality, safety, and operational efficiency. A new build from scratch required a design that "satisfied them all at once."

No records are kept
Without automating records,Instruction depends on individualsand quality cannot be standardized.
Review is impossible
Without leveraging recording and voice,Improving and sharing instructiondoes not lead anywhere.
Schedule updates get missed
Without delivering dispatch and schedules as data,Miscommunication and confusionoccurs.
Information is scattered
Without integrating schools, instructors, and vehicles,Operations visibilityis not possible.
03
ARCHITECTURE
The architecture we built together

Turning driving instruction into a "data-driven platform" across four domains.

Record automation, instruction review, operations management, and vehicle & device management - we built the four domains essential to driving instruction from scratch in-house, together with DriveAcademy Co., Ltd. In-vehicle IoT and cloud APIs connect the field with its data.

AmelaEXECUTION
8months
Duration
24person-months
Total effort
Domain 1
Record automation
Challenge
Need to automatically retain lesson records.
Solution
Record and log drives with in-vehicle IoT
Record even offline, sync later.
Domain 2
Instruction review
Challenge
Need to review and share instruction content.
Solution
Voice-to-text + evaluation score
Review in sync with the recording.
Domain 3
Operations management
Challenge
Need to reliably deliver schedules to vehicles.
Solution
Auto-sync schedules to devices
Visualize execution status in real time.
Domain 4
Vehicle & device management
Challenge
Need to centrally manage vehicles and devices.
Solution
Remotely manage device settings and status
Track online status and battery.
BACKEND
Laravel PHP 8 MySQL SSanctum / Swagger
IoT & CLOUD
DIn-vehicle device (device code) AWS S3 TSpeech-to-Text
DELIVERY
AREST API CAdmin console
04
IMPACT
Value the platform creates

DriveAcademy Co., Ltd.'s "instruction quality" accelerates.

This platform continuously delivers business outcomes - instruction quality, safety, and operational efficiency - rather than technical metrics.

A platform where records are kept automatically
Automatically record drives and instruction, eliminating reliance on individuals.
Review instruction
Recording and voice transcripts improve lesson quality.
A design that visualizes operations
Track schedules, results, and device status in one place.
Focus on the field
Less manual record-keeping lets instructors focus on instruction.
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STAKEHOLDER
Instructor
Typically
Records are handwritten, making review difficult.
At DriveAcademy
Review instruction with recordings and voice transcripts.
Better instruction quality
Also drives standardization
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STAKEHOLDER
Trainee
Typically
Feedback is mostly verbal and leaves no record.
At DriveAcademy
Receive specific, record-based instruction.
Better learning outcomes
Ingraining safe driving
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STAKEHOLDER
Operations admin
Typically
Dispatch and schedule management tends to stay analog.
At DriveAcademy
Manage schedules, results, and device status on one screen.
Better operational efficiency
Fewer miscommunications
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STAKEHOLDER
Management
Typically
Instruction quality and operations are hard to see in numbers.
At DriveAcademy
Visualize quality and efficiency with record data.
Better safety and trust
Data-driven management
05
DEMO
3 scenarios

Experience DriveLog with a live working demo.

FLAGSHIP
Driving school staff
Driving schedule
  • - List lesson schedules by vehicle x time slot
  • - Monitor online status of in-vehicle devices
  • - Show in-progress / completed in real time
Launch demo ->
Instructors & admins
Recording & voice logging
  • - Play drive recordings (seek, speed-up)
  • - Review voice transcripts (instruction logs)
  • - Assign evaluation scores by item
Launch demo ->
Operations admin
Vehicle & device management
  • - Centrally manage vehicles and in-vehicle IoT devices
  • - Per-device settings (recording, STT, storage)
  • - Track online status and battery
Launch demo ->