Your ’97 Accord doesn’t have remote diagnostic reporting, geo-fencing, trip logging, yada, yada yada? Well, for $200, now it can! Motolingo’s Motoriety is a system to bring telematics features to your older car’s OBDII port and represents a creative little bit of tech. Using the vehicle’s OBDII data port and bluetooth connectivity Motoriety will collect [...]
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Bringing Telematics To Cars Without Them
March 25th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Telematics 
Tags: apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, LBS, onstar, real-time data, Safety + Security, security, Telematics 
Comments OffSmartphones and Embedded Systems
March 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat We know that apps are coming to the car and that movement is no doubt led by smartphones like the iPhone and Nexus One. Over at Telematics Update Andrew Tolve discusses, ‘The Smartphone: Friend or Foe of In-car Infotainment?” My take away from the article is that the answer is, it’s both…and I would tend [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone app, mobile, News, real-time data, real-time traffic, Sync, technology, Telematics 3 Comments »Location Awareness Keeps On Rolling
March 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat In his article on NYT.com David Carr talks about the pervasiveness of location based services at South by Southwest. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and more have introduced location enabled apps or features and we are just at the leading edge of adoption among users. In particular, Carr talks about Gowalla and Foursquare, to location based [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, LBS, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, mobile, real-time data, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffApplication Spotlight: AppSpace.com
March 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site TechtoLiveBy.com has a post on AppSpace.com, a recommendation engine for smartphone apps. The number of apps available for the iPhone, Android OS and Blackberry is rapidly approach a combined 200,000. Wading through the sewage that constitute most apps to find that diamond in the rough can be a daunting task. For some of [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: api, apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffHacker Uses Telematics System for Revenge
March 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Alright, that headline is a bit much… It’s true though and re-raises some security concerns… Apparently Omar Ramos-Lopez, 20, was laid off from the Texas Auto Center and decided he’d use a telematics system installed on some cars sold at that auto center to be very annoying. He used the system to activate the horns [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Safety + Security Tags: apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, infotainment, Safety + Security, security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics 4 Comments »Ford Sync Feature Spotlight: API and Apps (aka AppLink)
March 9th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Update: Ford has announced the AppLink downloadable program which will be the in-vehicle application that manages the functionality discussed in this post. It will be available first on the 2011 Ford Fiesta and will allow integration with Android and Blackberry apps. We’ve talked about the importance of apps in the future of the telematics landscape [...]
Posted in Ford Sync / Touch, Telematics Tags: convergence, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, geo lccation, infotainment, iphone, mobile, produc spotlight, real-time data, Telematics, twitter 2 Comments »Smart and Safe Automotive Electronics
March 5th, 2010 Jeff Shariat George’s Blog Space.com takes a broad look at smart and safe automotive electronics. In fact, on average automobile manufacturers spend $2000 on electronic systems for every vehicle that comes off the line — in incredible increase from the $110-per-car budget of the early 1970s. This huge increase in spending is reflected in everything from engine [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: electronics, Emerging Tech, Safety + Security, technology, Telematics Comments OffChallenges with Telematics Adoption
March 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat We’ve previously discussed some issues with the telematics business case and while its clear to many that the market is there someone does have to make the numbers work before any feature can be broadly adopted. On Telematics Update, Andrew Tolve highlights that CES this year marked the first time OEMs were perceived to be [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: convergence, DoT, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, infotainment, iphone, LBS, mbrace, mobile, MyFord, MyFord Touch, onstar, real-time data, real-time traffic, Safety + Security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »The App is the Future of Telematics
March 1st, 2010 Jeff Shariat For a long time the biggest problem with connected mobile applications has been the ‘connected’ part. The mobile web has existed for many years, but only since the broad adoption of 3G has a true mobile web emerged. In fact, things aren’t really even about the mobile web anymore, it’s an almost antiquated concept. With [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Featured Tags: android, app store, apps, convergence, editorial, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, infotainment, iphone, opinion, Sync, tech, Telematics 11 Comments »Spotlight: Kia Uvo
February 12th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Uvo is Kia’s new infotainment and telematics package a la Ford Sync. Based on the Microsoft Auto OS Uvo offers a number of the same features as Sync including the advanced voice controls. Unlike Sync the system is not available without the 4.3″ color screen which is used to “detailed information on media content, phonebook [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, infotainment, kia, mobile, Telematics, tv, uvo, voice controls 2 Comments »Telematics Update Conversation with Gary Gale, Dir of Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies
January 28th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Telematics Update spoke with the Director of Engineering for the Geo Technologies group at Yahoo!, Gary Gale. Mr. Gale took a few moments to discuss the Geo Technologies group and his views on where technology is going. In defining the GeoTech group he gave a great definition for what many location based service companies are [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: Emerging Tech, geo location, LBS, location based services, Telematics, telematics update, yahoo! Comments OffOnStar Mobile App Will Help Volt Owners Manage Their Power
January 28th, 2010 Jeff Shariat At CES this year OnStar announced a mobile app for the iPhone and Android that will allow owners of the new Chevy Volt to monitor and interact with their vehicles remotely. To start off the app will be closely tied with the Volt in an effort to get the most out of Chevy’s new electric [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: chevy, chevy volt, droid, Emerging Tech, iphone, iphone app, mobile, onstar, real-time data, Telematics, volt Comments OffLinkedIn Question: What’s driving the development of … infotainment systems?
January 27th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Question from John Day: What’s driving the development of integrated communications/infotainment systems? Have enabling technologies made it easy to develop in-vehicle systems or is real engineering expertise still necessary? Answer: I believe the need for these systems has been around for quite some time. As always-on connectivity has increased in people’s lives the expectation and [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc... Tags: 3g, Emerging Tech, google, infotainment, mobile, slingbox, Telematics Comments OffFord Sync Feature Spotlight: WiFi And Mobile Hotspot In The Car
January 20th, 2010 Jeff Shariat The new MyFord Touch driver technology features a built-in WiFi receiver, built in browser, and support for USB broadband modems. WiFi Receiver The Wi-Fi receiver allows your vehicle, when parked, to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots within range, and to enable the built-in browser (accessed using the system’s 8″ touch screen). This means each equipped vehicle [...]
Posted in CES, Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch Tags: CES, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, MyFord, MyFord Touch, Sync, Telematics, Wifi 1 Comment »Twitter Is Poised to Lead Real-Time Incident Data
January 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 
Twitter recently purchased Mixer Labs and their GeoAPI. The GeoAPI is a robust set of applications (web services for the technically minded) that will allow developers to actively create, query, and otherwise interact with geolocation data. This means standardized geolocation lookups across all the different Twitter apps and access methods. The addition of these features [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Featured, LBS Tags: api, Emerging Tech, geo api, incident data, mixer labs, real-time traffic, twitter 7 Comments »
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