FLEXIBLE COACHING PLATFORM FOR TELEMATICS SYSTEM

• US 20120232747A1
• Filed: 09/12/2011
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Appy Risk Technologies Limited (Trak Global Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc. (Trak Global Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Miners, William Ben, Hawari, Hani, Toonstra, Jason, Lajeunesse, Daniel Evan
• Granted Patent: US 8,880,285 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/33.9
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/006 Indicating maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

A telematics system provides a platform for generating coaching tips, feedback, and simple indices based on driving behavior, historical information, heursistics and expert knowledge. The coaching tips are displayed on the policyholder portal and text describing the tips is completely configurable by an administrator on the server for the application. Furthermore, both ‘driving behavior’ and ‘environmentally friendly (green) driving’ tips can be supported.

Claims

1. A method for providing feedback to a driving including the steps of:

a) monitoring driving behavior with at least one sensor in a vehicle;

b) comparing the driving behavior to at least one threshold; and

c) communicating at least one suggestion based upon the comparison of the driving behavior to the at least one threshold.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold is selectively adjustable by an administrator.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said step b) is performed on a server remote from the vehicle and wherein the administrator can adjust the at least one threshold on the server.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said step b) is performed on a server remote from the vehicle, the method further including the step of receiving the at least one threshold from an administrator on the server.

5. The method of claim 4 further including the step of receiving the at least one suggestion from the administrator on the server.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold includes a speed threshold.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold includes a hard acceleration threshold.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold includes a mileage threshold.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold includes a vehicle idling time threshold.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold is a fuel efficiency change threshold that is based upon a change in a fuel efficiency of the vehicle over time.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the fuel efficiency change threshold is adjusted based upon season.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold is based upon a number of times that a monitoring device in the vehicle has been disconnected.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold includes a plurality of thresholds and further including the step of receiving a weighting of the plurality of thresholds, and wherein said step c) includes determining which suggestion to communicate based upon the weighting.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one threshold is based upon historical driving behavior and wherein the step of comparing includes comparing driving behavior to historical driving behavior.