By: Neha Verma

How it works:

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CarIQ is a product designed with the idea of making a car smarter. It is a small device that can be easily plugged into the car’s OBD port, near the steering wheel. Once successfully plugged in, it collects data from the car’s microcomputer and sends it to the servers hosted on the cloud. This device has varied features wherein information about events ranging from something as common as the head lights being left on when parked to something as dire as a potential car breakdown can be gathered. With CarIQ, owners can remotely manage, monitor, and interact with their vehicles. In light of recent events, such as the heinous Uber Cab company rape case, devices like this are the need of the hour. Not only does CarIQ give useful inputs to enhance car performance, it also helps in tracking driver behaviour and sends out important alerts for overspeeding, rash driving and the like.

A detailed list of the features CarIQ supports is as follows :

• Critical alerts

• Technical problems with the car

• Service alerts

• Battery monitor and health

• ‘Headlight On’ warning

• Location information

• Statistics sharing on Facebook and Twitter

• Social badges for driver, car condition, etc.

• Towing alerts

• Crash alert

• Over-speeding alerts

• Rash driving identification

• Personalized tips for driving (based on driving pattern)

• Fuel economy

• Download Entire car driving data

Meet the company and its CEO

Founded in August 2012, CarIQ was guided by the vision to connect car owners to their cars. It boasts of having launched India’s first connected car platform. Sagar Apte, founder and CEO of CarIQ, is an SLP Pune Fellow from the batch of 2013. Having graduated from Xavier School of Management, he has rich experience in product management, services and marketing. Prior to establishing CarIQ along with his colleagues, Sagar had worked for various big companies like Symantec, PubMatic and Ensim.

CarIQ is run by a team of passionate and goal driven individuals who believe in changing the world through innovative technology.

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