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The Wall Street Journal

Wi-Fi-Linked Home-Security Gadgets Aren’t Lowering Insurance Premiums

Wi-Fi-Linked Home-Security Gadgets Aren’t Lowering Insurance Premiums

  • diciembre 22, 2016
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The Wall Street Journal

Wi-Fi-Linked Home-Security Gadgets Aren’t Lowering Insurance Premiums

Despite Americans' voracious appetite for WiFi enabled security cameras and smoke detectors, insurers aren’t yet persuaded the devices will make homes any safer. But connected-home technology “changes the underlying need to have insurance,” says Sean O’Neill, a partner with Bain & Company.