Telematics 2.0

Telematics 2.0 is the name for IoT-based telematics technology for the automotive industry. Telematics 2.0 utilises smartphone based sensors rather than black-box devices used in the traditional PAYD insurance industry. Telematics 2.0 solutions hit the consumer market in 2012/3 with solutions being offered by leading auto insurers such as AIG and AssetFENCE in the US.

A commercial pilot of SafeDrive was run 2013 in Sweden, where the shortcomings of the smartphone as measurement probe were handled by digital signal processing.