OP here. I dug into this comparison because I kept seeing complaints about battery drain with the OBD-II dongles.
It seems the issue is that the sleep-mode logic on the cheaper insurance-issued dongles often conflicts with the ECU stay-awake times on modern vehicles, effectively keeping the car awake to ping the server.
I'm curious if anyone here has experience with the raw data feeds from the mobile SDKs (like Arity or Cambridge Mobile Telematics)? I'm trying to gauge how much granular accelerometer data they actually pull versus just GPS pings.
insuranceguru•2w ago
It seems the issue is that the sleep-mode logic on the cheaper insurance-issued dongles often conflicts with the ECU stay-awake times on modern vehicles, effectively keeping the car awake to ping the server.
I'm curious if anyone here has experience with the raw data feeds from the mobile SDKs (like Arity or Cambridge Mobile Telematics)? I'm trying to gauge how much granular accelerometer data they actually pull versus just GPS pings.