Week 4

Question 1

Drivers of Internet of Things

Answer 1

• Need for more information
• Rapidly falling cost of
  – Sensors and other components
• Emergence of better software
  – Borrowed from other sectors
  – Open-Source Software
• Widespread network availability
• New artificial intelligence approaches, to process
  information
• Inexpensive cloud computing

Question 2

Internet of Things Issues

Answer 2

• IOT standards still evolving
  – Problems connecting devices
• IOT devices have primitive security
  – easily hacked
• Remote storage of personal details

– Amazon Echo Dot requires users to store their Wi-
Fi network router passwords on an Amazon server.

• Collection of data about personal habits
  – Time you get up
  – Amount of time you are in the house
  – Time you go to bed

Question 3

Telematics Car Insurance

Answer 3

• Black Box Insurance or Telematics insurance is
  car insurance where a telematics device, either a
  box is fitted to your car or your smartphone
  using a telematics app, is located within your car.
• The black box / telematics device then tracks
  many aspects of your driving and in turn helps
  you become a better driver as well as offering
  additional safety and anti-theft features