Automotive Telemetics?According
to Wikipedia.org, the term telematics is used in a number of ways:
* The integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as
ICT (Information and Communications Technology). More specifically it is
the science of sending, receiving and storing information via
telecommunication devices.
* More commonly, telematics have been applied specifically to the use of
Global Positioning System technology integrated with computers and mobile
communications technology.
* Most narrowly, the term has evolved to refer to the use of such systems
within road vehicles, in which case the term vehicle telematics may be
used.
You can use this new technology.
- if you get lost every time you
enter a new town – learn how telematics can provide you with pinpoint
accurate route guidance on the move, and get you right to your
destination with ease.
- if you are a student of the wire-free
world, and how it has evolved from the computing, telecoms and
automotive industries.
- if you are interested in discovering how
telematics is already shaping the way we use public transport.
- if you are involved in transportation
design – find out how telematics links drive-by-wire technology to the
wider world.
- if you want to know when the
Internet will reach your car – and what benefits it will bring.
Google,
Yahoo! Maps Enable New Automotive Telematics Innovation
Mercedes-Benz is delivering a first for drivers:
the ability to send directions directly from their computers to their vehicles.
The new technology, called Search & Send, which will be available September 5,
has been developed in partnership with Google, Yahoo! and DaimlerChrysler
Research, Engineering and Design North America (Palo Alto, CA). It is being
phased into the Mercedes-Benz model line starting with select vehicles equipped
with Tele Aid, the company's telematics and emergency response system
Thanks to telematics, smarter cars offer a thoughtful future for the automotive
industry
It’s probably a good thing that automobiles are
thinking more and more for their distracted drivers.
Reading street signs, “talking” to other vehicles, circumnavigating traffic
snarls, conducting remote diagnosis and even providing movies, music and instant
communication like e-mail and Internet use on demand: there are scores of jobs
diligently carried out by telematics, enabling vehicles to wirelessly
communicate, navigate and entertain motorists via complex computerized systems.
The definitions and categories are as diverse as the jobs these systems perform.
Regardless, telematics is expected to add up to a $6 billion a year industry by
2010.
Apple to Become a
Tier-One Automotive Electronics Supplier?
Some of you may enjoy the sport of Apple
rumor-mongering, an activity which must give Steve Jobs much pleasure. His PR
department can simply deny things, and they’ll bloom and spread on their own.
Five (plus) years of such denials is what led to the iPhone hysteria,
culminating last Friday in an amazingly successful launch. That topic is worthy
of a separate blog. But for now the topic is cars.
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