Abstract: A mobile user terminal and method for activating/deactivating geopositioning devices in moving vehicles, wherein the detection of the geopositioning device located in a moving vehicle is based on data from low-energy consumption sensors provided by the mobile user terminal. If the mobile user terminal is located in the moving vehicle, at least one probe pattern related to a situation of the moving vehicle is identified and based on the identified probe pattern and data from low-energy consumption sensors, it is verified either that the situation corresponds to the mobile user terminal riding in the moving vehicle, and then the geopositioning device is activated, or that the mobile user terminal is stopped in the moving vehicle, and then the geopositioning device is deactivated. The steps of detecting and identifying the moving vehicle situation, performed by the mobile user terminal, use short-time and long-time probes.

Abstract: Present disclosure refers to a method for detecting driving events of a vehicle. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining at least one motion data signal from sensors of a mobile device located in the vehicle; sending the at least one motion data signal from the sensors to a processing module; computing, in the processing module, an energy measurement of the at least one motion data signal; selecting time segments where the energy measurement of the at least one motion data signal exceeds a first threshold; analyzing the at least one motion data signal in said time segments; and assigning a driving event to each time segment.