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Pepper acquires Notion for connected insurance play

December 21, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Pepper IoT, a company that provides applications and back-end services for other businesses to build IoT platforms or devices, has acquired Notion, a company that provides insurance companies services and sensors designed to mitigate claims. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: adt, comcast, insurance, Notion, NRG, Pepper, State Farm, Vivent

IoT news of the week for March 18, 2022

March 18, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

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Georgia-Pacific chooses MachineQ's LoRaWAN network to connect public bathrooms: Georgia-Pacific, which makes paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers and other hygiene products, has signed a deal with Comcast's MachineQ network to connect its KOLO … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Ambiq, cisco, cogniac, IIoT, insurance, Lacuna, LIDAR, LoRaWAN, MachineQ, microcontroller, Peloton, satellite, smart vehicles, subscriptions, vivint

Are smart home devices from your insurance company a Trojan horse?

June 26, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 12 Comments

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Neil called in to our voicemail hotline with a question about a free smart home device and service offered by his home insurance company. The device is called Ting and it monitors your home's electricity to warn you of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: data privacy, insurance, smart home, Ting, Whisker Labs, WiFi

Why insurance firms are stalling on IoT

June 11, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham 6 Comments

The news this week that Amazon is looking into some form of home insurance product seems fairly speculative, but it's not an insane idea. The Information reported the story, with a lot of disclaimers, and quoted one anonymous source at Amazon who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: business models, Duck Creek Software, insurance, nest, Notion, Roost

An old insurance firm bets on data with new startup

October 31, 2017 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

The dream of charging insurance based on the mile has been a reality for a while. The thinking behind this is that the more miles you drive, the more chance there is that you will be involved in a collision and have to pay for things like part … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Startups Tagged With: Allstate, Arity, autonomous cars, insurance, Lyft, NAtional General, Uber, Wze

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