Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Due to a tragic family event, I have been inactive in this project during 3 months. When I began to upgrade my database, I was surprised by the speed with which the events are happened, until the fact that I cannot comment all the important news that have taken place to avoid this report be of a non reasonable extension.
It seems that another change in the profile of the technology companies that are promoting this project has taken place. At the beginning they were very big companies, as IBM, T-System or Siemens, but we soon saw that those that were really able to make a place in the market were the companies specialized in fleetsmanagement. And we also saw how these were immediately substituted by companies specialized in anti-theft and recovery of vehicles. Now they are the companies of M2M, those that have interest in developing this market which in fact is only a part of a wider and general market for them.
We have to mention to Navento that is closing a distribution agreement with Telefónica (in whose group is also O2), and in this context we also have to mention to Telit-Xirgo, IMETRIK, Pinkcar, the agreement between Mio and Sara or the activities of Europ Assistance.
But we should not forget companies with an activity guided towards the PAYD like Iris-global, Stok or PTV that far from being demoralized by the concession of the prize “Big-Brother”, have taken as a challenge demonstrating that this project doesn’t have to be disrespectful with the privacy of their clients.
And neither the anti-theft companies that feel very comfortable in their relationships with the insurance companies and are also forced to fight to stay in a market that is suffering a deep transformation.
But what is really interesting it is the dynamics that is generating in France, where unlike the rest of the countries, they are the own insurance companies and not the technological ones those that are promoting this project. We have projects of Groupama, MAAF, AXA, Solly Azar and even of Aviva (Norwich Union) who have a license for exploitation in France of the patent EP 0700009. This dynamics has been possible for the clear pronouncement of the CNIL, to instances of the activities promoted by L’Argus de l’Assurance.
Everything seems to indicate that in Germany we could also meet with a similar phenomenon, because there are many activities, expectations and discussion forums on this project, there is an entity Bfdi that is usually clearly pronounced on the related topics with the defense of the intimacy and Swiss Re, which is a discussion promoter in many occasions.
There are some very interesting documents, the first one belongs to the Swiss government, and it is accessible in German, French and Italian and it refers to the defense of the privacy and the projects PAYD. The second refers to the problem of the traffic congestion in England. The third is a presentation of Mr. Voggenauer, only available in German and the fourth refers to the impact of this project in the improvement of the environment.
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Yours sincerelly
Salvador Minguijón Pérez.
Interim Management.
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