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: water leak detection

  • Water leak detection is commonly installed in datacentres, communications rooms and other information technology dependent structures. After all it is crucial to protect these critical assets from both fire and floods by receiving the earlier possible notification of an incident, allowing action to be taken quickly to take preventative measures. Leaking water from HVAC, AC…

  • Nicholas Hartley, Head of Business Improvement and Innovation for Group Strategy at Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, says that the cost of claims is slowly increasing across the industry, and much depends on the quality of house construction as well as the use of different materials.

  • Chris Andrews, head of risk management solutions at Aviva, finds that, at present, there doesn’t seem to be a default position among construction companies when it comes to installing leak detection. That being so, there’s a need for an ongoing campaign to raise awareness and understanding of the benefits of water leak detection systems in…

  • 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.…

  • “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…

  • Wi-Fi isn’t sufficiently secure for a number of applications, including water leak detection. A report published by Positive Technologies claims that, in 92% of cases, its researchers were able to externally penetrate 92% of companies’ internal networks in penetration tests conducted last year. The researchers also found that, at 87% of its tested clients: “Wi-Fi…

  • There is increasing interest among insurers in getting contractors as well as developers to buy in to the inclusion of leak detection systems in building projects. Intelligent Insurer reports. Published by Intelligent Insurer on 16th May 2019. Author: Graham Jarvis. Client: LeakSafe.