Pan-telematics Reward System for Cross-Field Risk Reduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional reward systems are not tailored to individual customers and often fail to incentivize risk-averse behaviors that benefit entities beyond the scope of their operations, as they are based on broad customer classes and do not effectively utilize pan-telematics data from various sources.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented system that collects and analyzes pan-telematics data from wearable devices, vehicle systems, and other devices to identify and track risk-averse behaviors, generating user-specific rewards that are proportional to the documented interests of customers, thereby incentivizing behaviors that lower risk for entities across different fields.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional reward systems use broad customer classes for rewards, then implementation is simple, but rewards are not tailored to individual customers and fail to effectively incentivize risk-averse behaviors

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveReward personalizationVSAvoidSystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments customers from broad classes into individual profiles by collecting and analyzing pan-telematics data from multiple sources (wearable devices, vehicle systems, mobile devices). This segmentation enables personalized reward offerings tailored to each customer's specific risk-averse behaviors and documented interests, resolving the contradiction between reward personalization and system simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous feedback loops by monitoring pan-telematics data to identify risk-averse behaviors, analyzing these behaviors against customer profiles, and dynamically adjusting reward offerings. This feedback mechanism enables automatic personalization without manual intervention, achieving adaptability while managing complexity through automated decision-making algorithms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If reward systems focus only on operations-related metrics, then rewards are easy to generate, but they do not incentivize risk-averse behaviors in other fields

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveCross-field incentive capabilityVSAvoidInformation integration across fields
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies universality by collecting pan-telematics data across multiple fields (health from wearables, driving behavior from vehicle systems, lifestyle from mobile devices) and using this integrated information to generate rewards that incentivize risk-averse behaviors in any field. The unified reward platform serves multiple functions: tracking diverse behaviors, analyzing cross-field patterns, and delivering personalized incentives beyond operational metrics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system merges data from disparate sources (wearable devices, vehicle computer systems, mobile computing devices) into a unified customer profile. This consolidation integrates information across health, driving, and lifestyle fields, enabling the system to identify correlations between risk-averse behaviors in different areas and generate comprehensive rewards that address multiple fields simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Measurement precision

If the system collects pan-telematics data from multiple sources, then risk-averse behaviors can be accurately identified, but data collection and processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveBehavior identification accuracyVSAvoidData collection infrastructure
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs self-service mechanisms where wearable devices, vehicle computer systems, and mobile computing devices automatically collect and transmit their own telematics data without manual intervention. Each data source performs self-service data collection according to its native protocols, and the central system aggregates these self-reported data streams, reducing the complexity of coordinated data collection while maintaining high measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses an intermediary data processing layer that standardizes and harmonizes data from diverse telematics sources. This intermediary layer translates different data formats and protocols into a unified structure, enabling accurate behavior identification across multiple sources without requiring complex point-to-point integration between each data source, thus managing infrastructure complexity while maintaining precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10817891B1Vehicle risk aversion and reward system
Publication Date: 2020.10.27 STATE FARM MUTAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
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AI summary

Systems and methods are provided for identifying vehicle care that may reduce risk in fields not directly associated with a vehicle itself. One or more electronic sources may provide an indication of care (e.g., service, maintenance, or part configuration) of a vehicle by a user, and the vehicle care may be determined to be associated with a lowered risk for an entity (e.g., a home or business) operated by the same user in another field not associated with operation of the vehicle itself. In response, a user-specific reward may be generated and transmitted to the user, to further incentivize vehicle care and other risk averse behavior in the other field.