Inspiration
Our inspiration was chatting with one of our family members who has State Farm, who isn't driving right now. She is struggling with her bills and is worried about her auto insurance premiums, and we were excited to help develop a product to help State Farm customers across the country.
What it does
Our product is a mobile application that tracks decreases in customer vehicle travel during crises to reduce auto premiums and underwriting fees. It does this by:
Tracking time spent driving using your accelerometer speed on your smartphone
Compares the time you spent driving to historical telemetric data and national averages
Uses that comparison to suggest a lower auto insurance premium for the respective month
Our feature uses the Core Motion API from iOS. This allows us to:
- Compile information consistently over a week long period
- Return the states of motion (activities) that the system experienced at various time intervals.
- Easily port our platform to Android Devices
How I built it
We built this using Swift, Figma, CSS, Xcode, and other developer tools.
Challenges I ran into
As college students, this was one of the first projects we've worked on to solve an enterprise problem. We struggled with Swift at first -- our team has never used iOS development tools before. We worked around this by learning Swift very _swiftly _, and working on learning iOS development skills.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Learning Swift and UI design on Figma. Also, we loved breaking down a business problem and creating a solution to help solve a business problem.
What I learned
How to develop applications for iOS and User Design on Figma. Also, our team gained a lot more experience on how to work using Zoom and other cloud platforms to maximize accessibility.
What's next for Stay Home and Save - State Farm Challenge (Team Longhorn)
We are working on developing a pay as you go insurance platform based on car mileage for college students and the elderly.
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