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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

January 4, 2011 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. Read more

November 11, 2010 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. Read more

November 3, 2010 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. Read more

October 26, 2010 Carmaker BMW has announced the second generation of its NGTP (Next Generation Telematics Patterns) applications interface. According to the company, the open-source, technology-neutral interface is intended to speed telematics services development. Read more

October 7, 2010 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. Read more

September 30, 2010 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. Read more

September 23, 2010 Market research company Frost & Sullivan predicts a boom for smartphone apps which are connected to vehicles and controlled though the Human Machine Interface (HMI). This kind of apps, so called hybrid apps, will eventually displace embedded dedicated Telematics systems, the research company says. Read more

September 15, 2010 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. Read more

September 2, 2010 Automotive tier one ZF Friedrichshafen has announced a cooperation with software vendor Funkwerk eurotelematik GmbH. Both partners plan to present the first apps for ZF's Openmatics platform at the IAA vehicle trade fair in September. ZF plans to open an app store for Openmatics apps in 2011. Read more

July 21, 2010 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. Read more

May 27, 2010 In a shocking paper, a group of US-based researchers has proved that it is possible to compromise the security of the entire in-car electronic landscape. The scientists were able to take over the control over a vehicle via OBD-II and telematics interfaces and even to access and manipulate the most relevant safety features. Read more

March 23, 2010 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. Read more