IOT in Insurance Sector: Home, Auto and Health Insurance

Internet Of Things is helping the Insurance Industry as well. Based on the reports we have read it is all set to transform the insurance industry in flexible and exciting ways. Last month Accenture insurance blog stated that 39% have already launched or are piloting connected home or connected building initiatives that use the Internet of Things, and 44% consider connected devices to be a driver of future insurance revenue growth.

Future insurance is set to be completely transformed because of IoT. There are already some insurance companies that have adopted IoT and Insurance Tech such as Bajaj Allianz, ICICI Lombard, HDFC life.

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In this article we plan to discuss how IoT is helping in home insurance,  auto insurance, and health insurance businesses.

Health Insurance:

Wearable devices such as fitness bands such as FitBit are helping people, especially elderly, to track their health details constantly. This information can further help doctors treating the patients requiring immediate medical attention. Insurance companies, at the same time, can reduce their claims by offering incentives to their policyholders to use these kinds of devices.

Home Insurance:

Sensors, Detectors connected via the internet could send early signals of smoke/radiations to the rescue services, helping in minimizing the damages. Information derived from inter-connected smart devices at home can also be utilized by insurance companies to determine the safety maintained at home. In the first place, smart devices used to keep an eye on their home while they are away. This would decrease the unfortunate incidences of theft or burglary and save people from losing their precious assets as well. Eventually, it would also bring down the claims raised by households.

Auto Insurance:

Telematics like monitoring automobile speed, the behavior of a rash driver could assist in making a clear judgment of claim policies for individuals and insurance firm.

Hence while IoTs and interconnected network could be a boom in offering policies, these minuscule are taking insurance services to the next step.A huge amount of data generated by the IoT devices can be used for predictions, understanding of the market, customers etc, that will help in distributions the policies in a very effective manner as well as a great customer satisfactions.