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The Gamification of Driving Insurance #CES2017
The gamification of driving insurance is one way to describe Liberty Mutual Insurance’s new apps. Intended as a way to provide rating of the actual driving habits of a prospective customer, Highway Hero does so by making a game of driving. With things like leaderboards and badge that allows one to compare metrics with other drivers,…
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From Dumb to Smart IoT Gas Cooktop
It is unsettling to be 50 miles from home and realize that you may have left on the gas stove-top. This isn’t an irrational fear, as, according to the National Fire Protection Association, ranges or cooktops accounted for 62% of the 161,000 home structure fires from cooking equipment in the 2010-2014 period. The founders of…
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The IoT Water Leak Insurance Plan
“We are making insurance tangible,” says David Henry of Roost in the above interview. Henry was speaking to the approach that some insurance companies are taking of bundling Internet-connected devices that detect, alter and prevent accidents. With an average of 14,000 water damage incidents a day and billions paid in claims each year, this preventative strategy makes…
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UHD Isn’t Just More Pixels, It’s Better Pixels
Ultra HD is more than just 4 times the resolution, as it also offers the opportunity for greater color depth, so explains Steven Corda, Vice President of Business Development North America for SES. Providing a bit of a pre-NAB Show tutorial at the 2017 ACA Summit, Corda explains in the above video some of the…
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A Packet Approach to Transportation & More
Near-empty buses, low-frequency service and the resulting poor fare recovery are the hallmarks of too many public transportation systems. Using a combination of smaller, electrified vehicles with built-in autonomy, next future transportation, Inc. has a plan to disrupt public transportation by greatly increasing efficiency. Emmanuele Spera, CEO of next future transportation, inc. explains that by reducing…
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Digital Opportunity as the End Goal
Digital opportunity is the end goal, says FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.¹ In the above interview, Pai states, “Broadband is not a Republican issue, it is not a Democratic issue; it is an American issue.” He explains that providing digital opportunity requires that Internet is available to all who want it or, as he put in…
