5 Challenges For IoT In The Insurance Industry

Insurance industry has been among one of those industries that are being considered to be very conservative by nature due to its slow nature but in the past few years, the insurance sector has been very innovative and disruptive in nature. As the new insurers have been making major investments and there has been lot of digital initiatives to bring lot of innovation for the customers with the help of internet. The Internet has been acting as a very powerful source for the growing insurance industry.

IOT insurance industry is commonly known for the Internet of things has to face various challenges like Disruption to the insurance models that rea meant for business, the executives in the insurance industry face a huge dilemma due to the presence of IOT .Data management we all are aware of the fact that insurance industry has been a data centric industry. Data ownership issues, various rules and regulations as well as data security and fraud.

Disruption of Old Models: – As we know that insurance executives don’t feel comfortable to the new model due to the birth of IoT. The insurers will be benefitted based on risk mitigation and lower claims. The competitive nature of the insurance industry will ensure fewer risks that will help in bringing down the premiums too.
Data Management: – As we know the insurance industry has been a data-centric industry hence there is lot of data related to policies, claims, billing systems, etc. that need to be taken care of and that needs to be processed. There are many insurance companies that struggle a lot process this data and analyze this data.
Data Ownership: – Data that is created and that is made available through IoT in the insurance industry understand the risk better. But still the no one is ready to take the ownership of data.
Rules and Regulations: –The Insurance sector is one of the first business sectors that have regulations being imposed on it and hence the data collected by the insurance companies are scrutinized worldwide very closely.
Data Security and fraud: – There are lot of chances of data getting hacked and data being misused, and the data is open to be used by all on a common platform.