Progressive Insurance Company "Snapshot"

The title of this blog entry is a placeholder following what I wrote iny prior blog entry for what I intend to write about progress towards an individual becoming a thing on the Internet of Things (IoT)

It is an excellent example because it shows the current status of progress in boiling the frog (all of us) but investigation of all the future features of this program demonstrate far greater progress in making an individual a thing on the IoT.

Investigation of that future progress will be based on examination of the Google patents covering Snapshot.

Xirgotech makes the dongle device.  http://www.xirgotech.com/xt-3200-series

I would think that while the dongle draws and transmits data from the car on board device there is no reason that the dongle could have its own independent sensor devices?

On the software side PTC recently acquired Axeda.  PTC is an IoT company.  http://www.ptc.com/about/news-room/press-releases/2014/07/ptc-acquires-axeda