Systems and methods for detecting vehicle mass changes
AssigneeAllstate Insurance Company
InventorsPhilip Guziec, Clayton Jeschke, Hongxuan Liu
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Abstract
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses include collecting, via one or more sensors and during a first window of time, sensor data associated with an acceleration of the vehicle, processing the sensor data to obtain frequency domain sensor data, analyzing the frequency domain sensor data to identify one or more occurrences of a vehicle mass change event, classifying a use of the vehicle for a shared mobility service during one or more time periods of the first window of time based on the one or more occurrences of a vehicle mass change, and transmitting, to a remote computing device, a notification relating to use of the vehicle for the shared mobility service.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- one or more sensors configured to measure sensor data associated with a vehicle;
- one or more communication circuits for wireless communication;
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
- collect, via the one or more sensors and during a first window of time, the sensor data associated with the vehicle, and the sensor data including first acceleration data;
- receive, via one or more sensors of a device that is remote from the vehicle, second acceleration data;
- when an amount of noise in the second acceleration data is below a threshold, analyze the second acceleration data to identify one or more vehicle mass change events;
- when the amount of noise in the second acceleration data is above the threshold, analyze the first acceleration data to identify one or more vehicle mass change events;
- classify a use of the vehicle during one or more time periods of the first window of time based on the one or more vehicle mass change events;
- and
- transmit, to a remote computing device, a notification relating to the use of the vehicle.
A method comprising:
- collecting, via one or more sensors and during a first window of time, sensor data associated with a vehicle, the sensor data including first acceleration data;
- receiving, via one or more sensors of a device that is remote from the vehicle, second acceleration data;
- when an amount of noise in the second acceleration data is below a threshold, analyzing, using one or more processors, the second acceleration data to identify one or more vehicle mass change events;
- when the amount of noise in the second acceleration data is above the threshold, analyze the first acceleration data to identify one or more vehicle mass change events;
- classifying a use of the vehicle during one or more time periods of the first window of time based on the one or more vehicle mass change events;
- and
- transmitting, to a remote computing device, a notification relating to the use of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.