System and method for integrating smartphone technology into a safety management platform to improve driver safety
First Claim
1. A system for managing driver safety, comprising:
- a safety analytics computer system for generating at least one risk identification algorithm for determining a risk score indicating a likelihood that a driver will be involved in a vehicular accident based on a situation of a vehicle operated by the driver; and
a mobile device in communication with the safety analytics computer system for;
receiving the risk identification algorithm from the safety analytics computer system;
obtaining situational information associated with the situation of the vehicle;
executing the risk identification algorithm using at least the situational information to determine the risk score that the driver will be involved in a vehicular accident; and
presenting a driver intervention to the driver if the risk score is above a risk threshold associated with a driver intervention rule,wherein the safety analytics computer system is configured to automatically adjust the risk threshold for each driver intervention rule based on information associated with the driver.
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Abstract
Identifying risky driving situations in the context of a driver'"'"'s real-time operating environment and providing effective interventions and countermeasures that mitigate the risky situation to reduce the likelihood of the driver having a vehicular accident. A driver monitoring and mentoring system includes mobile safety centers individually installed on driver-assigned smartphones or other mobile devices. The mobile safety centers collect real-time driving data and compute a risk of a driver in a specific situation being involved in an accident and provide mentoring to drivers in a driver risk situation above a risk threshold to reduce the likelihood of an accident. The mobile safety centers communicate with a master safety analytics center that collects data, collects and stores information relating to detected risk situations, creates risk algorithms, creates driving mentoring communications, and communicates the algorithms and communications to the mobile safety centers.
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51 Claims
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1. A system for managing driver safety, comprising:
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a safety analytics computer system for generating at least one risk identification algorithm for determining a risk score indicating a likelihood that a driver will be involved in a vehicular accident based on a situation of a vehicle operated by the driver; and a mobile device in communication with the safety analytics computer system for; receiving the risk identification algorithm from the safety analytics computer system; obtaining situational information associated with the situation of the vehicle; executing the risk identification algorithm using at least the situational information to determine the risk score that the driver will be involved in a vehicular accident; and presenting a driver intervention to the driver if the risk score is above a risk threshold associated with a driver intervention rule, wherein the safety analytics computer system is configured to automatically adjust the risk threshold for each driver intervention rule based on information associated with the driver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 49)
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13. A method for communicating a driver intervention to a driver to alert the driver of a driving risk, comprising:
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running a mobile safety center module on a smartphone; retrieving by the mobile safety center module information associated with a current driving situation for the driver; executing on the mobile safety center module a risk identification algorithm using at least the current driving situation information to determine a risk score that indicates a likelihood that the current driving situation corresponds to one of a plurality of driving risks, wherein the risk identification algorithm is received from and generated by a remote safety analytics computer system; presenting by the mobile safety center module a driver intervention indicative of the one driving risk to the driver based on the risk score; and automatically adjusting the risk threshold based on information associated with the driver. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 50)
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17. A computer system for managing driver safety, comprising:
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a risk detection subsystem for generating risk identification algorithms that identify whether a driver of a vehicle is in one of a plurality of driving risk situations, wherein the risk identification algorithms are transmitted to a mobile device for executing the risk identification algorithms using at least information associated with a driving situation to determine a risk score that indicates a likelihood that the driver will be involved in at least a portion of the driving risk situations; an intervention rules generator for generating an intervention rule for each of the plurality of driving risk situations, each intervention rule comprising a risk threshold and a driving intervention associated with the risk threshold for presentation to a driver if the risk score for the driver exceeds the risk threshold, wherein the intervention rules generator is operable to automatically adjust the risk threshold based on information associated with the driver; a driver intervention subsystem for generating the driving interventions for the intervention rules such that the driver interventions are based on risk threshold information associated with the driver; and a communications manager for communicating with one or more information sources to obtain driving situational information and for communicating with a plurality of mobile devices associated with drivers to deliver the risk identification algorithms, intervention rules, and driving interventions to the mobile devices. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 51)
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26. A smartphone for communicating a driver intervention to a driver to alert the driver of a driving risk, comprising:
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a processor, computer-readable memory, and a computer-readable storage media; a mobile safety center module comprising; first computer program instructions for obtaining information associated with a current driving situation for the driver; second computer program instructions for executing one or more risk identification algorithms using at least the current driving situation information to determine a risk score that indicates a likelihood that the current driving situation corresponds to one of a plurality of driving risks, wherein the one or more risk identification algorithms are received from and generated by a remote safety analytics computer system; and third computer program instructions for presenting a driver intervention indicative of the one driving risk to the driver if the risk score satisfies a risk threshold, wherein the mobile safety center module comprises computer-readable instructions stored on the computer-readable storage media for execution by the processor by way of the computer-readable memory, and wherein the risk threshold is automatically adjustable based on information associated with the driver. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A method for generating a first notice of loss, comprising:
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running a mobile safety center module on a mobile device associated with a driver; monitoring and recording by the mobile safety center module information associated with driving situations for the driver; detecting by the mobile safety center module that a vehicular accident has occurred involving a vehicle associated with the driver; receiving from the mobile safety center module information regarding the vehicular accident through a user interface for the mobile device; and issuing by the mobile safety center module a first notice of loss comprising an indication of the vehicular accident and the information regarding the vehicular accident received through the user interface to a master safety analytics center, wherein information regarding the vehicular accident includes an automatically adjustable risk threshold associated with the driver. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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