MAAF Assurances and SIGFOX Team Up For Home Security

TOULOUSE and PARIS, France, December 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

MAAF becomes the first insurance company to offer a connected objects' household protection service

SIGFOX, the first operator of a cellular network fully dedicated to Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things communications, announces that MAAF Assurances has chosen SIGFOX low throughput communications network for its new home security offer: MAAF self-monitoring solution.

MAAF Assurances thus anticipates the upcoming regulation that will impose by 2015 that each household be equipped with a smoke detector

The fire and/or intrusion alert service that will be provided with the SIGFOX, network, will enable MAAF insured customers to be warned directly with an sms sent through their phone operator, in case the home installed sensors detect smoke or movement. This self-monitoring system is offered at a highly competitive price, the full Theft & Fire solution costing 79[1], with a yearly subscription of 3.

MAAFAssuranceshas long been working on home risks prevention and as such, wasadamant to find an innovation solution that could better the life of its insured customers. The solution offered by SIGFOX answers our need to guarantee our customers security in all circumstances, declares Laurent Pigelet, MAAF Assurances marketing communications director.

Connection of the systems to the SIGFOX network will start in January 2013 for some 3000 MAAF insured customers. After that commercial test phase, the service should be commercialised on a wider scale.

With this new offer, SIGFOX shows the ability of its network to connect our daily lives' objects.

SIGFOXaimsto ease the private and industrialdaily lives with a high quality service connection at a very low price.We answer today's needs while preparing tomorrow's applications. MAAFfully understoodthe benefits of our network andpasses them on to its customers. We are very happy to be working, within the Cova Group, with this insurance company as we share the same human values. adds Ludovic le Moan, SIGFOX Chief Executive Officer.

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MAAF Assurances and SIGFOX Team Up For Home Security