Usage-Based Insurance

Insurance

Integrate smartphone-based telematics into your insurance products to capture real driving behavior, score risk continuously, and power usage-based programs — all through your policyholders’ existing mobile devices, with no hardware to deploy.

Industry Impact

Per-Trip

Risk Scoring

Crash Event

Detection

100+

Behavioral Parameters

Zero

Hardware Required

How Damoov Helps Insurers

Challenges

Solutions

Limited Visibility into Driving Risk

Traditional underwriting relies on demographic proxies — age, location, credit score — rather than actual driving behavior. Without continuous risk measurement, insurers cannot differentiate drivers who share the same profile on paper but behave very differently on the road.

Continuous Behavior-Based Risk Data

Damoov’s SDK captures per-trip driving data — speeding, harsh braking, rapid acceleration, cornering, phone distraction, and time-of-day patterns — directly from policyholders’ smartphones. This continuous behavioral data stream gives insurers a stronger foundation for risk segmentation, pricing models, and portfolio analysis than static rating factors alone.

Low Engagement Between Policy Events

Most insurers interact with policyholders only at renewal, billing, or claims — missing the opportunity to build ongoing relationships, encourage safer behavior, or demonstrate value between policy milestones.

Data Foundation for Policyholder Engagement

Damoov provides the behavioral data and engagement building blocks — safety scores, driving tips, reward tokens (Drivecoins), and gamification mechanics — that insurers can use to create in-app experiences that keep policyholders engaged. More frequent, meaningful interactions support better retention and stronger customer relationships.

Incomplete Data Around Claims Events

When accident-related data is limited to policyholder self-reports, claims assessment depends on incomplete, subjective information. This slows adjudication, complicates liability determination, and creates opportunity for misrepresentation.

Structured Driving Context for Claims

Damoov’s SDK captures crash event data — including sensor readings, GPS coordinates, trip context, and pre-incident driving behavior — that insurers can incorporate into their claims workflows. This objective, timestamped data provides additional context alongside traditional evidence to support faster, more informed claims decisions.

Slow Time-to-Market for Telematics Products

Launching a telematics-based insurance product traditionally requires selecting hardware, managing device logistics, building data infrastructure, and navigating lengthy integration cycles — often delaying market entry by 12–18 months.

Faster Launch with a Software-Only Approach

Damoov’s SDK eliminates the hardware layer entirely. Insurers integrate a lightweight SDK into their mobile app, and driving data begins flowing immediately. Combined with ready-to-use APIs, configurable scoring models, and a scalable data platform, insurers can launch or expand telematics programs in weeks rather than months.

Powerful Features for Your Business

Feature 1

Behavioral Risk Scoring

Move beyond demographic rating factors to understand how each policyholder actually drives. The SDK measures acceleration, braking, cornering, speeding, phone distraction, and time-of-day exposure across every trip. Per-driver risk scores and behavioral breakdowns flow through APIs, giving actuarial and underwriting teams continuous, structured data to refine segmentation, identify adverse selection, and support usage-based pricing models.

Per-Trip

Risk Scores

100+

Behavioral Parameters

Feature 2

Crash Event Detection & Data

The SDK detects crash events using smartphone accelerometer and GPS data, capturing sensor readings, impact context, coordinates, speed, and pre-crash driving behavior. This structured crash payload is delivered through APIs and webhooks, providing insurers with objective, timestamped evidence that can supplement traditional claims intake, support subrogation, and add context to liability assessment.

Sensor-Based

Crash Detection

Timestamped

Event Data

Feature 3

Engagement Building Blocks

Turn your insurance app into a platform policyholders use between renewals. Damoov provides the data layer for in-app driving scores, personalized safety tips, reward tokens (Drivecoins), and gamification mechanics. Insurers build these into experiences that encourage safer driving, increase app engagement, and create genuine value that goes beyond the policy itself — supporting stronger retention and lower long-term risk.

Scores, Tips

& Rewards Data

SDK-Powered

Engagement Layer

Common Use Cases

Usage-Based Insurance Programs

Launch opt-in telematics programs where policyholders share driving data in exchange for personalized pricing. Attract better risks into your portfolio, differentiate your product, and build pricing models grounded in actual behavior rather than proxies.

Pay-How-You-Drive (PHYD)

Use continuous driving behavior data to support behavior-based pricing models. Per-trip scores and behavioral breakdowns give underwriters the granularity to move beyond age and zip code toward risk assessment based on how each driver actually operates.

Young & New Driver Programs

Provide structured driving data for programs targeting new drivers — safety scores, behavioral event tracking, and trend data that support coaching, parental visibility, and incentive structures tied to demonstrable improvement over time.

Why Mobile Telematics?

Scale Globally Without Hardware

No devices to ship, no SIM cards to manage, no import logistics to navigate. Mobile telematics turns any smartphone into a powerful sensor — ready to collect high-quality driving data from day one, anywhere in the world.

Up to 70% Lower Cost Than OBD

Eliminate device procurement, installation, cellular plans, and ongoing hardware maintenance. Mobile telematics is a pure software model — no physical inventory, no replacement cycles, and dramatically lower total cost of ownership compared to on-board diagnostics (OBD) or GPS trackers.

Configure and Update in Hours

Forget firmware rollouts and device recalls. With mobile telematics, configuration changes and model updates go live in hours, not months — across your entire user base. And because modern smartphones pack powerful processors and advanced sensor arrays, you can run sophisticated algorithms on-device that no dedicated hardware tracker can match.

Connects to the Systems You Use Now

Stream telematics data into your fleet management, insurance, or mobility platform through well-documented APIs. No middleware, no custom connectors — just clean integration that fits your existing technology stack.

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