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PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited

Deep-learning disaster monitoring and agricultural risk assessment

PICC reported nearly 200,000 annual IoT warnings from its disaster-monitoring platform

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Problem

Disaster-risk monitoring required observations across widely dispersed insured assets. Agricultural insurance also required information about crop conditions and damage.

Approach

PICC combined satellite observations, drone surveys and IoT monitoring with deep-learning models in an operating warning platform. Its Guangdong agricultural insurance operation used remote sensing to assess crop conditions and losses. IoT monitoring also used AI to identify pests and diseases.

Results

nearly 200,000IoT warnings provided in the preceding year, according to PICCCompany's own claim[1]
>38,000IoT devices connected to the platform, according to PICCCompany's own claim[1]
25Chinese provinces covered by the platform, according to PICCCompany's own claim[1]

Takeaway

The warning count measured monitoring activity. PICC did not quantify the resulting reduction in insured losses for this platform.

Categories

Business function
Finance, risk and legal
Innovation type
Process innovation
Evidence
Company's own claim

Sources

Source summaries

[1]PICC2025

PICC described its disaster-monitoring platform and agricultural applications in Guangdong. It reported more than 38,000 connected IoT devices across 25 provinces and nearly 200,000 IoT warnings in the preceding year.

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Added 1 Nov 2026 · Updated 1 Nov 2026
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