Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Internet of Things

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, has commented about how he sees cloud-based leak detection and remote risk monitoring systems developing over the next five years. “At present, leak detection is a reactive and response-based system. However, with cloud-based monitoring of leak detection systems, there’s the potential for gathering vast amounts of historic data.…

  • “Insurance is a hard business to be in and while car manufacturers may play a role in delivering the insurance services of the future, we see this working as a partnership arrangement with the insurance sector.” – Graham Gordon, director, global telematics at LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

  • “bunq is one of a number of challenger banks shaking the status quo like N26 and Monzo. The key is that their appeal to particularly expats as they make it simple and nearly free to look after your money” – Chris Skinner, a co-founder of the UK’s Financial Services Club

  • Early in 2019 Brian Chidester, Senior Industry Lead for Public Sector at OpenText, wrote about the trends that will affect the public sector this year. In his blog for the company, it stated that ‘2019 technology trends driving IT modernisation in the Public Sector’… Continue reading Public Sector Technology: Be Smart With WAN Data Acceleration…

  • “Mobility is being driven by four business models and technology trends. You have autonomy, connectivity, electrification and sharing that are disrupting business models of mobility service providers and it is changing the automotive technology base. Connectivity is enabling infrastructure and people to be smarter through optimization. Over time it will change the economics of the…

  • Mike Fisher, associate director of Futuresource, comments that the current evolution of connected vehicles towards becoming in-car companions has led to a rapid rise in safety features. He also finds that the biggest area of interest at the moment is in artificial intelligence (AI) vehicle solutions – coupled with edge-based processing, and the ongoing development…

  • In celebration, David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks comments: “This win validates the expertise of the Bridgeworks team and PORTrockIT’s ability to mitigate latency and reduce packet loss by using a winning combination of AI, machine learning and WAN Data Acceleration to achieve higher levels of WAN performance than would normally be possible with…

  • “Existing transportation systems are struggling to keep up with current, and future, travel demands owing to rapid urbanization and population growth,” said Simon Dixon, global transportation leader at Deloitte. He explains that there a several ways in which mobility is already evolving to meet demand and they include rapid advances connected, autonomous and electric vehicles.”

  • “If your data protection or cybersecurity plan includes the use of the wrong VPN, you could be unwittingly putting yourself in a much worse position than if you had no protection plan at all. I believe bad cybersecurity is much worse than no cybersecurity at all, and the best intentions in the world can still…

  • Chris Andrews, head of risk solutions at Aviva, has confirmed that ‘escape of water’ claims “continue to be our highest frequency claim with steadily increasing costs.” However, Andrews added that fire brings with it the highest severity and claims cost. In fact, fire and ‘escape of water’ costs are not dissimilar. For this reason, Andrews…