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insurethebox and Octo Telematics

insurethebox has teamed up with Octo Telematics to pioneer a new approach to car insurance. By
collecting information on customers’ driving patterns insurethebox is able to reduce the cost of car
insurance for safe drivers.

Octo Telematics SpA is specialized in the provision of telematics services and systems for the
insurance and automotive market. Founded in Rome in 2002, Octo Telematics now has over
800,000 active subscribers, with subsidiaries and partners in Europe, USA, South America, and Asia.

By supplying and servicing the largest telematics fleet in Europe, the number of their clients and their
database of the most complete figures and statistics globally, Octo Telematics represents industry
best practice within the vehicle telematics arena.

Octo Telematics is the forerunner and global leader in the research, development and management
of cutting-edge telematics applications for auto insurance. It offers customers the benefit of its
multidisciplinary teams of experts in automotive devices, software development, marketing and
services platforms, in order to offer increasingly competitive and innovative turnkey solutions.

Through the exclusive technological platform Clear Box and its own Multi-Services Centre, Octo
Telematics can develop and manage a complete and integrated range of high added-value vehicle
telematics solutions: from tailor-made insurance products to safety services; from analysis, dynamics
reconstruction and crash kinematics to road charging and fleet management, as well as
environmental impact while driving.

The company has conceived and implemented original service management systems, guaranteeing
the high quality, reliability and precision of collected data, and in 2006, the company achieved ISO
27001:2005 certification, the international standard designed to support information security, integrity
and availability, meeting the technical criteria laid down in all national privacy legislation.

Octo Telematics has won the European tender, launched by ISVAP (The Italian Insurance
Supervisory Authority), for the ‘Check Box’ project, Europe’s first governmental research trial
assessing the benefits of implementing a telematics system to monitor driving distances and accident
probability. Octo Telematics also works in partnership with the ANIA Foundation for Road Safety in
programmes aimed at reducing car accidents.

What is telematics?
How does it work?
Theft Tracking & Accident Alert
Clear Box Technical Specification