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Homes are changing rapidly, and household electrical loads are increasing. EV chargers, heat pumps, solar panels, and home batteries are becoming standard and push higher demand over longer periods. As loads increase, the risk of heat buildup and developing faults increases too, often inside the consumer unit where the home's electrical system is concentrated.

Onics, a leading Nordic Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, has announced its launch into the UK home insurance market. bringing technology proven to lower claim costs, enhance AI underwriting engines, and improve customer loyalty at a time when the sector has reported six consecutive year of losses, according to EY.

For six consecutive years, the UK home insurance market has struggled to make money. Meanwhile, Nordic insurers have achieved reduced losses, greater underwriting insight, and improved customer loyalty. Discover the 3 lessons the Nordic experience offers.

Between early 2023 and September 2025, Allianz UK paid 345 claims worth a total of £ 20 million for damage caused by burst pipes, as revealed in a recent article in the Insurance Post. But these claims can easily be prevented.

Based in the Netherlands, Laurens is dedicated to bringing our advanced risk-prevention solution to insurers in the Benelux. He helps reduce risk, prevent claims, and strengthen customer engagement through IoT-enabled prevention technology.

Home burglaries are one of the most frequent and costly types of property insurance claims, creating operational strain for insurers and leaving customers with a lasting sense of insecurity. With smart technology, insurers can shift from reactive claims processing to proactive risk mitigation and protect both their portfolios and their customers’ homes.

How Onics supports indoor climate monitoring under Awaab’s Law

Transformational IoT solutions will drive down losses and boost underwriting insights to support the sectors’ return to profit, after six years of market losses

Prevent fires before they cause damage. Connected fire detection technology helps insurers protect customers’ homes, reduce costly claims, and strengthen risk mitigation.

Onics is proud to announce that we have joined Insurtech Amsterdam, a leading organization that connects innovators, insurers, and technology providers in the Benelux countries.

Water leaks account for 25-30% of home insurance claims. However, many of these claims are preventable. With the help of smart technology, insurers can turn reactive claims handling into proactive loss prevention and thereby protect both their portfolios and their customers’ properties.

When If Insurance, the leading non-life insurer in the Nordics, set out to offer customers proactive home protection tools, they partnered with Onics.

When solution providers search for the right technology partner, the decision often comes down to expertise, reliability, and the ability to scale. But there is another critical piece of the puzzle that is too often overlooked: logistics – a crucial component to competitive advantage.

Most insurers still compete on price and compensation. But policyholders are starting to expect something more — real protection before damage even happens.

Providing the Nordics' leading non-life insurer with a market-ready, customized fire and water alarm system for damage prevention and new data insights for improved risk assessment.

The smart home market is becoming mainstream and consumers' smart home fluency is going up. This opens a powerful window of opportunity for P&C insurers looking to engage customers with new value offerings inside the home.

We are looking forward to chat with you this Monday at the Insurtech UK AGM and Benchmark Report Launch in London.

Insurance is no longer just about covering damages - it´s about preventing them!

When damage strikes a customer’s home, the impact has two sides. For insurers it means costly claims. For policyholders it means stress, damages and loss.

Internet of Things devices can help minimize damages from water leaks and fire with instant notifications allowing building owners to react quickly. This way, some of the most costly property insurance payouts can be reduced.

To ensure the success of your IoT solution, it must function reliably. The Fleet Management Services from Onics provide you with an easy way to monitor, maintain, and debug your IoT fleet based on the Squid.link gateways.

Choosing reliable and durable devices in your IoT-based solution is crucial for maintaining high quality and longevity of your solution. But it is not only the reliability of the device’s performance that is important for the quality of your solution – so is the durability of the hardware you are using.

The property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry is under growing pressure to evolve due to rising customer expectations for digital and proactive services and an increasingly complex risk landscape. Here are three ways AI can transform P&C insurance offerings to improve both customer experiences and insurers' business.

Insurers today face increasing pressure to reduce claims costs, improve customer experience, and adapt to a rapidly changing risk landscape. With these market changes, the industry is shifting from reactive claims handling to proactive risk prevention. To support this development, Onics has joined trade association Insurtech UK.

Collaborations for innovation, from protection to prevention, and IoT's potential in smarter insurance offerings. Read our key takeaways and impressions from the large insurance conference ITC Europe 2025.

Smart technology is changing the game in P&C insurance. Meet us at ITC Europe to explore how we can help you build an intelligent home protection solution to prevent customer damages, reduce claims, and lower costly payouts - all seamlessly integrated into your existing insurance offerings.

As a proud technology and development partner in Viking Guard, we’re excited to support the launch of a service that delivers true peace of mind to Norwegian homes and cabins. Developed together with If Insurance and Viking Assistance, Viking Guard combines smart technology, 24/7 support and proactive protection against water and fire damage.

Today, Onics is launching a new and improved version of our entry sensors, the Entry Sensor 2 Pro. The Entry Sensor 2 Pro is a secure and reliable sensor based on many years of development experience, making it ideal for your IoT solution.

In the fast-moving IoT industry, it is crucial to quickly bring a new solution to the market to not be outpaced by competitors. By partnering with a white label technology provider, you can cut down the time to market of your solution remarkably and launch it within a third of the time.

After acquiring the Norwegian IoT solutions provider Datek Smart Home last October, we are excited to announce that Develco Products will soon unite with Datek Smart Home under the common name Onics.

With the constantly evolving IoT landscape influenced by new technologies and societal changes, it is crucial for providers of IoT solutions to keep up to date. We have selected 3 key trends that will impact IoT solutions in 2025.

We are proud to be working with some very innovative and dynamic companies who value our partnership as much as we do. Learn what some of our customers think about working with Onics.

In many IoT solutions, it is crucial that they are running continuously and reliably to make sure the building and its residents are protected. By choosing products with easily replaceable batteries, you can minimize downtime in your solution.

We are now launching a new product manual service that lets you offer online, interactive manuals with your products – ensuring a much better product onboarding experience for your customers and easier manual maintenance for you.

With the constantly evolving IoT landscape influenced by new technologies and societal changes, it is crucial for providers of IoT solutions to keep up to date. We have gathered 6 key trends that will impact IoT solutions in 2024.

At Onics, we are constantly looking for new ways to improve our offerings and products for our customers. This also means minimizing the carbon footprint our activities are leaving behind. We are therefore excited that our new product packaging has less plastic.

We are introducing Fleet Management Services – a range of software services that make it significantly easier for you to monitor, maintain, and debug the gateways and devices across your IoT solution. This reduces your maintenance costs and shortens time-to-market for your solution.

What do you think of when you hear “Bluetooth”? If you are like us, you are probably thinking of a wireless technology standard used to exchange data between devices. But for a Danish company like Onics, the word Bluetooth has more associations than that. A royal one and a personal one.

Developing a wireless smoke detector for an IoT solution means years of work before you have a market-ready product. Why not skip this and launch a mature product right away? By choosing a white label smoke detector, you can do that. Check out this option and explore the benefits of using white label products.

When including a motion sensor in an IoT system, there’s the option to develop the device from scratch. Another option is using a market-ready device to avoid a lengthy development process. If you prefer to get a market-ready motion sensor, there are several benefits of choosing a white label product.

As new technology-led players are entering the insurance industry continually, traditional insurance companies need to focus their attention on user experience and personalized offerings. By integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) into the business, new opportunities open in relation to customer acquisition, loyalty, and retention.

Deciding between using white label products and in-house product development can be difficult. Get an overview of the benefits offered by each strategy, and get one step further in your decision-making process.

Looking for a door and window alarm for your wireless system? Have you considered a white label product? A white label door and window alarm offers you the possibility to save time and get a fast return on investment. Take a look at how it works with a white label door and window alarm and why you should include these in your wireless system.

The time from when a leak starts until it is noticed by someone is crucial in terms of minimizing damage. Often water leaks go unnoticed for long periods, resulting in severe damage. IoT technology can help prevent this.

With a white label IoT gateway, you can get a mature gateway for your wireless system without using in-house development resources. This way, you will save a large amount of time in getting your system on the market. Explore how white labeling works and the benefits of including a white label gateway in an IoT system.

The white label Squid.link gateways are now PTCRB certified. This certification ensures that the gateways connect reliably to cellular networks all over the world. The white label gateways make it possible to quickly launch a IoT solution connecting to cellular networks.

What are the benefits of choosing a white labeling strategy? And how do you proceed with your project when having settled on using white label products? Take a look at this step-by-step guide.

Onics is pleased to announce the launch of our new office in the USA . The new office accommodates increasing North American market demands and enhances provided services. It also brings us closer to our American customers and enables new projects within home care, smart security, and insurtech. 

White labeling is when a company offers non-branded products to other companies who sell them to end customers as if they were their own. Explore the benefits of white labeling, examples of white label products, and how to choose a white label partner. 

The Iot is growing year after year and reaching into more and more industries. In 2022, 3 important trends in the IoT are the accelerating intelligent health and home care industry, a focus on cyber security and the continuous growth of edge computing.

Onics is today launching the white label Zigbee Range Extender with battery backup that enables you to increase the reach and add more devices to your home care, security, insurtech, or energy management solution.

The IoT presents huge opportunities for insurance companies. At the same time, the rapidly increasing number of connected devices and related flows of data call for edge computing capabilities. Here is why.

Here's how you can save time on the development of the application for your IoT solution. With the Squid Smart App, a middleware application, you only need to configure the application on top of the Squid.link platform instead of programming it.

The current development of the insurance industry means that insurance companies need to innovate their business to keep them from becoming obsolete. By integrating the IoT into your insurance business, you will be able to meet the current needs as well as future requirements of your customers. Here’s how you can provide IoT-enabled services by offering your property insurance customers an insurtech kit.

By partnering with 3rd party development partners, you are able to quickly get a customized IoT solution while focusing on your core competencies. Together with Blackdorf, Onics offers end-to-end solutions for the insurtech, home care, and security industry that fit your and your customers' needs.

IoT devices installed in a home can help detect humidity and water leaks early on and thereby reduce property damage and thereby insurance claims. 

With the IoT world evolving rapidly, it is vital to make strategies from the beginning of a project to keep an insurtech solution from being quickly outdated. How are you keeping your solution from becoming obsolete?

Explore how your insurance company can get a customized insurtech solution without spending a lot of unnecessary development resources.

The Internet of Things (IoT) opens a world of possibilities in relation to monitoring property and preventing break-ins. With an insurtech solution, your insurance company can help your customers protect their homes and feel safe.

Explore how the IoT can help traditional insurance companies keep up with the current development of the industry, innovate their business to meet customer needs continuously, and get a step ahead of competitors.

The market share of traditional insurance companies is at risk due to new technology-led players entering the field. The rise of a new age in the insurance industry makes it crucial for insurance companies to embrace the Internet of Things as a path to retaining their existing customer base, acquiring new customers, and lowering insurance payouts.

The Zigbee Alliance proudly reports a continuously increasing interest in Zigbee-based products and platforms, noting 168 certified products for the first quarter of 2021. This serves to prove that Zigbee is, indeed, one of the leading communication protocols and a safe choice for your smart solution.

With 15 different sensitivity levels, having a Vibration Sensor within your solution is a great advantage. Regardless of whether you have a home care, security, or insurtech solution, this Zigbee-based device can easily help you stand out from the competition.

2020 has proven to be a groundbreaking year for IoT, with IoT connections accounting for 54% of all connections worldwide, thus surpassing non-IoT connections for the first time. The IoT uptake is largely driven by cellular IoT and LWPA networks.

Onics launches the Vibration Sensor which detects and reports vibration levels. With 15 different pre-set sensitivity levels, this small inobtrusive device can benefit solution providers in various business areas.