IoT news

Usage-based car insurance (UBI) is a relatively new concept where your insurance policy costs depends on collected data about how much do you drive, where, when and how. Telemetry allows that this data is sent in real time and thus allows dynamic changing of the cost of the insurance in dependence to the risk assessment at that moment. What's the greatest idea behind UBI? Well, for me it's the fact that we'll be rewarded for less risky driving and for the insurance companies it's probably the insurance fraud prevention. Company Octo Telematics is allowing that by offering service platform for…

When we talk about things in the IoT world, we not only talk about sensors or actuators, we are actually talking about smart objects that are effectively microcontrollers with Internet connectivity. The difference between a microcontroller and microprocessor is the fact that microprocessor is more powerful and general purpose, and microcontrollers are slower, cheaper, purposely made hence they include memory and input/output peripherals so effectively small complete systems. Good comparison can be found here. When choosing a microcontroller some of the options are: number of bits, quantity of RAM and flash memory, number of GPIO pins, type of connectivity, power…