With the evolution of vehicle sensing devices, it became possible to monitor telemetry data (general vehicle conditions, driving patterns, location, etc.) for a large part of the company’s fleet.

This monitoring enables a better understanding of drivers’ driving and usage patterns, more precise control over the need for fleet maintenance, and also opens up possibilities for the detection and prediction of abnormal events such as accidents, theft, and robbery.

Localiza offers several car rental services, including short-term and long-term segments. While in the former contracts generally last for a few days, in the latter contracts can have indefinite terms of duration. Especially for long-term cases, for which risk factors gain importance given the length of exposure, it is important to understand whether drivers have driving patterns that may increase their chance of incurring accidents. Identifying these patterns and promoting actions to mitigate them is an important action to promote more safety for the traffic as a whole and in particular for Localiza clients.

Armed with data related to the driver profile (driving behaviors, history of violations, etc), vehicle information (occurrences in other accidents), telemetry data from the moving vehicle, and other information regarding the environment, it is expected that it will be possible to predict the occurrence of an accident in advance or even during the rental contract.