An international open standards organisation
We specialise in Geospatial standards
We help the world collect, process, model, discover and share its location data better
We work across multiple domains:
Defense, Insurance, Health, Environment, Built Environment, Emergency Management, Weather, Marine, Statistics
There are common challenges to using geospatial data across all these domains – we can achieve more by sharing together
An international open standards organisation
We specialise in Geospatial standards
We help the world collect, process, model, discover and share its location data better
We work across multiple domains:
Defense, Insurance, Health, Environment, Built Environment, Emergency Management, Weather, Marine, Statistics
There are common challenges to using geospatial data across all these domains – we can achieve more by sharing together
At a national scale WaterML is being used across New Zealand to better share water quality data
The entire island of Taiwan is interconnected with sensors that monitor and help to warn about mudslides
The WoT needs not only sensor data, but also context and message: What do we need to know about the sensor and the sensor’s “observation”? What do we need to know about the place or thing where the sensor is located?
Just over 6 sensors per person on the planet
And many of them will be collecting data that we own
Crowd sourcing – will increase. Air quality project in Canada where people build their own sensors from kits and share the data
As customers become more comfortable with the IoT, adoption will increase—and customers will expect
benefits from doing so.
Connected devices are altering the very nature of risk.
The IoT can help carriers to shift from claim mitigation
to claim avoidance, and IoT data can enable more
sophisticated claims and underwriting capabilities.
However, connected devices also open the door to
emerging risks related to cyber security and hacking.
New data sources can help carriers create new
business opportunities. More precise information
from the IoT can help carriers tailor product offerings
and personalize customer interactions, while insights
into customer lifestyles can underpin a shift from
reactive to proactive customer service. The IoT can
also support new business models, such as pay-asyou-
go, lifestyle or loss prevention services, or enable
new product development, such as cyber insurance
Access to IoT data isn’t limited to carriers, and that
changes the competitive landscape. Automotive
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), home
security firms and telecom companies will also have
direct access to IoT data, and will almost certainly be
looking to monetize the data and use it to expand
product lines.