System for processing remote sensor data

• US 10,354,328 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2013
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company (The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company (The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Helitzer, Jonathan, Murchie, G. Stewart, Frey, Kelly L., Campbell, Casey Ellen, Carvalko, Jr., Joseph R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gort, Elaine
• Assistant Examiner(s): Go, John P
• Application Number:
  US14/138,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20140114693A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,031 Days
• Field of Search: 705 4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A method and computerized system is disclosed for managing the underwriting, quoting and binding an insurance policy with regard to the technology used to militate against the financial consequences of property losses. The invention utilizes a classifier for categorizing and weighing risk, composed of data representing in an identified building, a first unmitigated insurance risk and a second insurance risk, based upon the use of certain technology. A plurality of such weights are summed such that the weights generate a minimized risk for a building structure under consideration. combinations of technologies, employed in existing building structures to a classification, which then permits an underwriter to establish a premium. In another aspect of the invention data structures representing the quantification of risk reduction attendant a given technology or product are chained into a plurality of decision trees that process a construction phase and a pruning phase.

Claims

1. A system for processing data comprising:

a storage device storing a database identifying a plurality of technologies that reduce risk of loss to an associated structure, wherein the structure comprises one of a commercial building, a residential building, a vehicle, a marine craft, and an aircraft;

a computer processor in communication with the data storage device, configured to;

perform real time polling of a plurality of sensor technologies incorporated in the structure;

receive a monitoring data alert electronically output by at least one of the plurality of sensor technologies incorporated in the structure, the monitoring data alert indicative of a current risk relating to the structure;

perform real time polling of remedial technology for taking remedial action to mitigate the current risk;

receive remedial action monitoring data electronically output by the at least one of the incorporated sensor technologies responsive to the real time polling of the remedial technology for taking remedial action and indicative of whether a remedial action has been taken to mitigate the current risk;

input, into a neural net trained on data structures indicative of an unmitigated factor pertaining to a structure and a mitigated factor based on incorporation of the technologies in the building structure, the monitoring data alert and the remedial action monitoring data, wherein the neural net comprises one of (a) a multilayer neural net including a neural net input layer having a plurality of computational processing units having a one-to-one correspondence to technology mitigation data;

(b) a technology classifier having a set of technology mitigation vectors, each vector specific to one building configuration, and inputs having a one-to-one correspondence with classification of mitigation technology values, or (c) a decision tree classifier developed during a construction phase requiring that a set of building structures and corresponding combination of technologies by recursively partitioned into two or more subpartitions;

determine, by the neural network, executed by the computer processor, an operational status of the sensor technologies and data indicative of whether the remedial action has been taken to mitigate the current risk; and

a data storage device storing data indicative of terms of an insurance policy issued to an insured and covering the structure;

wherein the computer processor is further configured to determine, based on the operational status of the sensor technologies and the insurance policy data in the database, whether an alteration in the data indicative of at least one of the terms of the insurance policy, after issue of the insurance policy, is warranted and, responsive to determination that an alteration in the data indicative of at least one of the terms of the insurance policy is warranted, alter data indicative of the at least one of the terms.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring data alert comprises structure condition data and alert data concerning the current risk.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer processor is further configured to poll the sensor technology for the monitoring data alert, thereby causing the sensor technology to send the monitoring data alert for the processor to receive.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the insurance policy term alteration is a premium alteration.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the operational status of the sensor technology comprises one or more of an operational status of a sensor for sensing the current risk to the structure, an operational status of an electronic data output for reporting the current risk to the structure, and an operational status of an automatic remediation system for deploying the remedial action to mitigate the current risk to the structure.

6. A computer-implemented method comprising:

maintaining in a database stored in a storage device, data identifying a plurality of technologies that reduce risk of loss to an associated structure, wherein the structure comprises one of a commercial building, a residential building, a vehicle, a marine craft, and an aircraft;

performing real time polling of a plurality of sensor technologies incorporated in the structure;

receiving, by the at least one computer processor, a monitoring data alert electronically output by the sensor technologies incorporated in the structure, the monitoring data alert indicative of a current risk to the structure;

performing, by the at least one computer processor, real time polling of remedial technology for taking remedial action to mitigate the current risk;

responsive to the real time polling of remedial technology for taking remedial action, receiving, by the at least one computer processor, remedial action monitoring data electronically output by the incorporated sensor technologies indicative of whether a remedial action has been taken to mitigate the current risk;

inputting into a neural net trained on data structures indicative of an unmitigated factor pertained to a structure and a mitigated factor based on incorporation of the technologies in the building structure, the monitoring data alert and the remedial action monitoring data, wherein the neural net comprises one of (a) a multilayer neural net including a neural net input layer having a plurality of computational processing units having a one-to-one correspondence to technology mitigation data;

(b) a technology classifier having a set of technology mitigation vectors, each vector specific to one building configuration, and inputs having a one-to-one correspondence with classification of mitigation technology values, or (c) a decision tree classifier developed during a construction phase requiring that a set of building structures and corresponding combination of technologies by recursively partitioned into two or more subpartitions;

determining, by the neural network, executed by the at least one computer processor, an operational status of the sensor technologies and data indicative of whether the remedial action has been taken to mitigate the current risk;

storing, in a data storage device, data indicative of terms of an insurance policy issued to an insured and covering the structure; and

determining, based on the operational status of the sensor technologies, the data indicative of whether the remedial action has been taken to mitigate the current risk, and the insurance policy data, whether an alteration in the stored data indicative of one of the terms of the insurance policy is warranted and, responsive to a determination that an alteration in the data indicative of at least one of the terms of the insurance policy is warranted, altering data indicative of the at least one of the terms.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one computer processor is further configured to poll the sensor technology, thereby causing the sensor technology to send the monitoring data alert for the at least one computer processor to receive.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the polled monitoring data alert comprises structure condition data and alert data concerning the current risk.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the insurance policy term alteration is a loss of a reduction in premium reduction.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the operational status of the sensor technology comprises one or more of an operational status of a sensor for sensing the current risk to the structure, an operational status of an electronic data output for reporting the current risk to the structure, and an operational status of an automatic remediation system for deploying the remedial action to mitigate the current risk.

11. A system comprising:

a data storage device storing a database identifying a plurality of technologies that reduce risk of loss to an associated structure, wherein the structure comprises one of a commercial building, a residential building, a vehicle, a marine craft, and an aircraft; and

at least one computer processor; and

computer executable instructions stored in a memory device for causing the at least one computer processor to;

update and store data relating to an insurance policy issued to an insured and covering the structure, wherein the structure incorporates a plurality of sensor technologies from the plurality of technologies identified in the database, provided by the insured;

perform real time polling of the sensor technologies incorporated in the structure;

receive a monitoring data alert electronically output by the sensor technologies incorporated in the structure, the monitoring data alert indicative of a current risk relating to the structure;

perform real time polling of remedial technology for taking remedial action to mitigate the current risk;

responsive to the polling, receive remedial action monitoring data electronically output by the incorporated sensor technologies indicative of whether a remedial action has been taken to mitigate the current risk;

input, into a neural network trained on data structures indicative of an unmitigated factor pertained to a structure and a mitigated factor based on incorporation of the technologies in the building structure, the monitoring data alert and the remedial action monitoring data, wherein the neural net comprises one of (a) a multilayer neural net including a neural network input layer having a plurality of computational processing units having a one-to-one correspondence to technology mitigation data;

(b) a technology classifier having a set of technology mitigation vectors, each vector specific to one building configuration, and inputs having a one-to-one correspondence with classification of mitigation technology values, or (c) a decision tree classifier developed during a construction phase requiring that a set of building structures and corresponding combination of technologies by recursively partitioned into two or more subpartitions;

determine, by the neural network, executed by the at least one computer processor, an operational status of the sensor technologies and data indicative of whether the remedial action has been taken to mitigate the current risk; and

determine, based on the operational status of the sensor technologies, the data indicative of whether the remedial action has been taken to mitigate the current risk and the insurance policy data, whether an alteration in a premium term of the insurance policy, after issue of the insurance policy, is warranted.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the remedial action monitoring data comprises data from a chemical remediation system for mitigating a mold risk to the structure.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the remedial action monitoring data comprises data from a water pumping remediation system for mitigating a water risk to the structure.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the remedial action monitoring data comprises data relating to a type of sprinkler system for mitigating a fire risk to the structure.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the incorporated sensor technology comprises one of smoke detectors, fire detectors, intrusion systems, radiation detectors, chemical detectors, and biological hazard detectors.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the incorporated sensor technology comprises one of water level detectors, water leakage detectors, vibration detectors, and meteorological condition detectors.