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OEMs increasingly equip commercial vehicles with fleet management systems March 13, 2012
A study from Frost & Sullivan, titled "Strategic Update of European Medium and Heavy-duty Commercial Vehicle Telematics Market", finds that the market registered sales of 542 million in 2010 and estimates this to reach 1.3 billion in 2017. The market research company anticipates almost half the vehicles produced to have a FMS as a standard line-fit by 2017. Telematics solutions supporting an open and flexible platform will allow vehicle manufacturers to survive long-term in this competitive market.
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One radio, multiple standards: BMW, Eurecom implement SDR car solution
October 4, 2011
Automotive-related radio communications is an increasingly difficult terrain: Where once AM and FM receivers completely met the requirements of automotive infotainment, today a vast diversity of different standards is in use to interconnect the car with its environment - and the diverse electronic devices inside the car among each other. For automotive OEMs, this situation is increasingly a challenge. In order to keep hardware complexity at bay, BMW has joined forces with a number of partners and implemented a software-defined radio platform capable to handle the diversity of standards.
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Connected cars fill frequency bands and swamp address schemes
April 11, 2011
Cars are becoming talkative and communicative. Future vehicles will automatically transmit data to the outside world. Communication partners include other vehicles, roadside units - and even the cloud.
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Blaupunkt introduces telematics division
January 28, 2011
After a restructuring process carried out by its new shareholder Aurelius Group, the Blaupunkt Group plans to enter the Telematics market as a new business field. For this reason, the vendor of car infotainment systems has launched the Blaupunkt Telematics division which intends to offer professional telematics solutions.
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Hyundai launches Blue Link as the next in-vehicle telematics interface
January 6, 2011
Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, introduced its new global telematics brand Blue Link and other independently developed in-vehicle technologies at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Blue Link, which makes its world debut in the U.S. market, is a telematics system unique to Hyundai models that offer consumers seamless connection between the office, home, smart phone and automobile with fast and reliable IT technology.
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Global consumer telematics penetration in new cars to reach 62% by 2016
The percentage of new passenger cars globally shipping with factory-installed telematics will increase from less than 10% in 2010 to 62% in 2016, according to ABI Research.
ABI Research practice director Dominique Bonte comments: “Several factors are driving the uptake of OEM telematics, the most important being an automotive industry that is emerging from a painful recession and finding renewed dynamism.
Cars converge on Brussels as eCall trial kicks off
A pan-European field trial of the eCall emergency system which automatically calls emergency operators in the event of a road accident has started today. The European Union has called for mandatory implementation of eCall with all new cars should be fitted with eCall as standard between 2013 and 2015.
CeBIT to launch telematics, automotive special exhibit in 2011
Computing and IT trade fair CeBIT plans to modify its approach to automotive electronics and telematics: Beginning 2011, the fair plans to bundle automotive-related topics in the Telematics and Automotive World focus show.
BMW launches telematics interface 2.0
Automotive electronics between challenges and synergies
Automotive traction technology, usage concepts, geographical
shifts, all these factors are changing and create challenges for the way
vehicle electronics are defined. Rainer Kallenbach, group board member of automotive
supplier Robert Bosch GmbH and EE Times Europe undertook a tour d'horizon of
this industry segment. Read the whole interview here.
Hirschmann Car Communication develops ultra-small antenna
An extremely small antenna for GSM and GPS reception has been developed by Hirschmann Car Communication for automotive tier one Continental AG. The device can be integrated into Telematics boxes or on-board units.
Smartphone apps displace dedicated telematics platforms
Automotive GSM module designed for first-mount Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and Emergency Call systems
A surface-mount automotive quality grade GSM/GPRS modem, the LEON-G100
Automotive from u-blox is designed for use in first-mount car telematics applications such as emergency call (such as eCall), Stolen Vehicle Recovery and wireless driver assistance services. In addition, it is ideal for after-market applications including road pricing, wireless toll collection, pay-per-use insurance and AVL / fleet management systems.
ZF, eurotelematik cooperate on telematics apps
Continental box locates vehicles - worldwide
Automotive tier one Continental AG has combined a GPS receiver and a GSM mobile radio unit to a Telematics box which opens the door for a host of options – from stolen car retrieval to fleet management and insurance tariff arrangements.
US researchers hack automotive electronics
Broadband receiver monitors diversity signals
IZT GmbH, a spin-off of research institution Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, has developed a monitoring RF recorder for mobile and telematics applications. The recorder offers accurate phase-synchronous measurement and recording of diversity signals from multiple antennas in automotive applications.
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