usage based insurance

Collaboration is a key strategy for automotive telematics ecosystem

Vehicles have evolved from mere transportation mediums to advanced mobile connectivity platforms. The evolution of automotive telematics have undergone from mere hands-free calling to screen based and portable navigation,...


Automotive Telematics in India: Evolving an Organic Ecosystem

From the dawn of human civilisation, mankind’s predominant pursuit has been for connectivity. While the dream for physical connectivity dominated for thousands of years, the electromagnetism (EM) based connect...


Connected car insurance: the real Italian Job

Where in the world are you most likely to find a connected car? Los Angeles? London? Rome? Most people would think that Silicon Valley, home of Google self-driving cars and...


Connected vehicles and the Internet of Things that really matter

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come to automotive. Having started with infotainment it has evolved to fusing sensor, positioning, cellular and short-range communications within exciting new V2X architectures...


Germany tweaks its traffic rules to include self-driving cars

For any industry to grow the government regulations play a very important role. What is the political disposition towards any industry at the end of the day matters. No...


Insurance Telematics: Insure The Box detects fraudulent claims

Insure The box, a telematics based car insurance company was successful in saving as much as £50,000 as it could detect and reject fraudulent claims. Company had used telematics data...


Admiral Insurance Facebook account blocked after announcement of firstcarquote plans

Admiral made an announcement that it would use data from consenting Facebook users to predict their driving attributes. Right after this announcement, Facebook blocked Admiral’s account, thereby ruining their...