Sat-nav tech tracked insurance policies

[Khare]

Services

The Galileo system will have five main services:

Open access navigation
This will be available without charge for use by anyone with appropriate mass-market equipment; simple timing, and positioning down to 1 metre.

Commercial navigation (encrypted)
High precision to the centimetre; guaranteed service for which service providers will charge fees.

Safety Of life navigation
Open service; for applications where guaranteed precision is essential. Integrity messages will warn of errors.

Public regulated navigation (encrypted)
Continuous availability even if other services are disabled in time of crisis; Government agencies will be main users.

Search and rescue
System will pick up distress beacon locations; feasible to send feedback, e.g. confirming help is on its way.

Commercial navigation will be for insurance, most likely.

The search and rescue one is a very good idea. If you're ever in trouble in the middle of god knows were and there's no phone signal this will send your exact position to emergency services.

[boneybradley]

gps based insurance is a good idea, you pay based on your own risk rather than based on 1000's of people. people say insurance isn't fair as currently you subsidise poor/accident prone drivers through your own premium

my work trialled fitting black boxes a few years back and gps is the next thing....(and the dpa would need major work for the police to have access to the data, so it's not 100/% big brother yet!)

[golf-sib]

Services

The Galileo system will have five main services:

Open access navigation
This will be available without charge for use by anyone with appropriate mass-market equipment; simple timing, and positioning down to 1 metre.

Commercial navigation (encrypted)
High precision to the centimetre; guaranteed service for which service providers will charge fees.

Safety Of life navigation
Open service; for applications where guaranteed precision is essential. Integrity messages will warn of errors.

Public regulated navigation (encrypted)
Continuous availability even if other services are disabled in time of crisis; Government agencies will be main users.

Search and rescue
System will pick up distress beacon locations; feasible to send feedback, e.g. confirming help is on its way.

Commercial navigation will be for insurance, most likely.

The search and rescue one is a very good idea. If you're ever in trouble in the middle of god knows were and there's no phone signal this will send your exact position to emergency services.

But can you see that being realistic, the emergency service which is 1m accuracy is brilliant for a premium considering the size of a ship at sea etc, the 1m accuracy is more than enough for a SOS service.

What do you think the cost will be on a 1cm accuracy service, also do you realistically think that them satellites where ever designed for this insurance idea in place? There's 31million cars in the UK if not more now, thats not counting Europe or the emergency services or other services these satellites are designed for. Realistically I cant see this happening let along the satellites being able to take that work load.