Vehicle telematics road warning system and method

• US 10,380,699 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2017
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2012
• 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: Fernandes, Steven J., Feero, Steven R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trivedi, Atul
• Application Number:
  US15/614,236
• Publication Number:
  US 20170270617A1
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 701 1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/09 Driving style or behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0039 Modification of a flight plan

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed herein to determine an insurance premium discount based on telematics data. The system includes a computer memory and a processor in communication with the computer memory. The computer memory stores data indicative telematics data received from a sensor within a vehicle, including at least one of geo-position information of the vehicle and vehicle kinematics data. The processor is configured to identify safety events and associated safety event locations based on the telematics data. The processor is further configured to display to the driver indications of the safety events on a map display along with indications of safety events associated with other drivers.

Claims

1. A road condition warning computer system, comprising:

one or more non-transitory data storage devices storing processed telematics data, wherein the processed telematics data is based on location data and kinematic data received from a sensor within a first vehicle;

one or more computer processors in communication with the one or more data storage devices;

a memory, coupled to the one or more computer processors, storing program instructions which, when executed by the one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to;

identify, based on the stored processed telematics data, deceleration related safety events associated with the first vehicle and a location corresponding to each of the identified deceleration related safety events; and

receive, based on telematics data received from sensors in other vehicles, deceleration related safety events data of the other vehicles and a location corresponding to each of the identified deceleration related safety events, and

identify whether deceleration related safety events of the first vehicle and of the other vehicles have occurred at a same location;

responsive to a determination that a threshold number, greater than one, of deceleration related safety events have occurred at the same location, automatically generate and transmit a notification to a community resource computer system containing data indicative of the location and the deceleration related safety events.

2. The computer system of claim 1, further comprising a map display associated with the first vehicle configured to display simultaneously an indication on the map display corresponding to each of the identified deceleration related safety events involving the first vehicle in accordance with the corresponding locations of the identified deceleration related safety events involving the first vehicle.

3. The computer system of claim 2, wherein the map display is further configured to display simultaneously an indication on the map display corresponding to each of the identified deceleration related safety events associated with the other vehicles in accordance with the corresponding locations of the identified deceleration related safety events associated with the other vehicles.

4. The computer system of claim 3, wherein the memory stores further program instructions which cause the one or more computer processors to:

identify, based on the stored processed telematics data, one or more of acceleration related safety events, speed related safety events, and turning related safety events associated with the first vehicle;

receive, based on telematics data received from sensors in the other vehicles, data indicative of acceleration related safety events, speed related safety events, and turning related safety events of the other vehicles and a corresponding location associated with each identified safety event of the other vehicles;

identify whether acceleration related safety events, speed related safety events, and turning related safety events associated with the first vehicle and the other vehicles have occurred at a same location; and

responsive to a determination that a threshold number of safety events have occurred at the same location, automatically generate and transmit an email to the community resource computer system indicating the number of safety events that have occurred at the same location.

5. The computer system of claim 4, wherein the map display further includes a user interface for selecting a particular type of safety event to display on the map display.

6. The computer system of claim 4, wherein the map display further includes a user interface including a user adjustable sliding bar to select a time period used to filter safety events such that the map display includes an indication corresponding to each of the safety events that occurred during the selected time period.

7. The computer system of claim 2, wherein the map display associated with the first vehicle comprises a map display on at least one of a mobile telephone, personal digital assistant and personal computer associated with a driver of the first vehicle.

8. The computer system of claim 2, wherein the sensor within the first vehicle comprises one of a sensor in a smartphone within the first vehicle, a sensor mounted on the first vehicle, and a sensor that is integrated into a data system of the first vehicle.

9. A computer-implemented road condition warning method comprising:

receiving, by one or more computer processors, processed telematics data based on location data and kinematic data collected by a sensor within a first vehicle;

identifying, by the one or more computer processors, based on the received processed telematics data, deceleration related safety events associated with the first vehicle and a location corresponding to each of the identified deceleration related safety events;

receiving, by the one or more computer processors and based on telematics data received from sensors within other vehicles, deceleration related safety events data of the other vehicles and a location corresponding to each of the identified deceleration related safety events, and

identifying, by the one or more computer processors, whether deceleration related safety events of the first vehicle and of the other vehicles have occurred at a same location;

responsive to a determination that a threshold number, greater than one, of deceleration related safety events have occurred at the same location, automatically generating and transmitting a notification to a community resource computer system indicative of the same location and the deceleration related safety events.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising displaying simultaneously, on a map display associated with the first vehicle, an indication corresponding to each of the identified deceleration related safety events involving the first vehicle in accordance with the locations of the identified deceleration related safety events involving the first vehicle.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

identifying, based on the stored processed telematics data, one or more of acceleration related safety events, speed related safety events, and turning related safety events associated with the first vehicle;

receiving, based on telematics data received from sensors in the other vehicles, data indicative of acceleration related safety events, speed related safety events, and turning related safety events of the other vehicles and a corresponding location associated with each identified safety event of the other vehicles;

identifying whether acceleration related safety events, speed related safety events, and turning related safety events associated with the first vehicle and the other vehicles have occurred at a same location;

responsive to a determination that a threshold number of safety events have occurred at the same location, automatically generating and transmitting an email to the community resource computer system indicating the number of safety events that have occurred at the same location.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising displaying simultaneously, on the map display associated with the first vehicle, an indication corresponding to each safety event associated with the other vehicles in accordance with the location of the safety event.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising displaying on the map display a user adjustable sliding bar to select a time period used to filter safety events;

and

responsive to receipt of an adjustment of the sliding bar, displaying on the map display an indication corresponding to each of the safety events that occurred during the selected time period.

14. The computer-method of claim 11, further comprising displaying on the map display a user interface for selecting a particular type of safety event to display on the map display.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising displaying on the map display a single graphical icon representative of a number of safety events that have occurred at a location, wherein the single graphical icon representative of a number of safety events comprises one or both of a single color graphical icon of a color representative of the number of safety events that have occurred at the location and a single numerical graphical icon displaying a number representative of the number of safety events that have occurred at the location.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the deceleration related safety event comprise an occurrence of deceleration above a threshold value.