VIAaq is the other half of the service delivery infrastructure Airbiquity offers. Yesterday we talked about Airbiquity’s aqLink data-over-voice in-band software modem and the strengths and weaknesses associated with the technology. Today we’re discussing the other half of Airbiquity’s service delivery infrastructure, a Managed Data Services Platform, VIAaq. VIAaq is a connected services solution used [...]
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Product Spotlight: Airbiquity VIAaq
February 25th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in Ford Sync / Touch, Telematics 
Tags: airbiquity, aqLink, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, News, products, Sync, tech, Telematics, VIAaq 
1 Comment »Product Spotlight: Airbiquity aqLink
February 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat So, you know that Ford Sync uses your bluetooth phone to connect to the outside world and deliver services from safety and security to infotainment. What you may not know is that all that data is being transferred over the voice network, not the data. The Ford Sync system uses Airbiquity’s aqLink product to deliver [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: airbiquity, aqLink, bluetooth, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, News, Sync, tech, Telematics, VIAaq 4 Comments »Telematics – Searching For the Business Case
February 22nd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Over at John Day’s Automotive Electronics News Ralf Hug does a nice job discussing some of the challenges of justifying and launching telematics services in major OEMs. In any organization the business case needs to be developed for any project and although most major OEMs are offering some level of telematics services there are still [...]
Posted in Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: automotive, business, editorial, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, mbrace, News, onstar, safety connect, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »Spotlight: Mercedes mbrace Telematics System
February 19th, 2010 Jeff Shariat mBrace is Mercedes-Benz’s replacement for their Tele Aid telematics system. Based on a Hughes Telematics’ system mbrace will provide the standard telematics features (ACN, SVN, Remote Door Unlock, etc) as well as the ability for users to download applications to their car and/or smartphone to interact with their vehicles, what Mercedes is calling ‘connected services.’ [...]
Posted in News, Telematics Tags: hughes telematics, mbrace, mercedes, mercedes-benz, News, tele aid, Telematics 1 Comment »MyFord Touch Feature Spotlight: Navigation
February 15th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Ford’s announcement that navigation features will come standard as part of the MyFord and Sync packages marks the first real foray by an OEM into the world of low cost navigation solutions. We’ve already discussed the Traffic, Directions and Information feature so today we’re focusing on the MyFord system which includes the more traditional method [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch, LBS, News Tags: CES, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, gps, inrix, MyFord, MyFord Touch, News, real-time traffic, Telematics, telenav 1 Comment »Google Will Bring The Internet To You!
February 15th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site Tech To Live By talks about Google’s plans to rollout test fiber optic networks as test beds for ultra-high speed roll out and connectivity. The FCC is supposed to deliver the National Broadband Plan to Congress on March 17th and Google and many others have been very vocal in their thoughts on how [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News Tags: broadband, FCC, google, national broadband plan, News, tech 2 Comments »Embedded Mobile & M2M Device Revenues to Rise to $19 Billion by 2014
February 10th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Juniper Research expects revenues from embedded mobile and M2M Devices to rise to $18.9 Billion by 2014. “Despite the ongoing downturn in the automotive sector in developed markets, the most promising M2M area remains the automotive industry”, says Anthony Cox, Senior Analyst at Juniper Research Other areas which will contribute significantly to M2M revenues include [...]
Transportation Secretary ‘LaHood fears spread of in-car technology’
February 10th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Detroit News reports: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is concerned that a host of technologies in new vehicles are distracting drivers. “Some of these car manufacturers are putting all these gadgets and bells and whistles that are going to distract people — and we’re trying to get gadgets and bells and whistles out of their hands [...]
Posted in News, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: convergence, DoT, Ford, News, regulations, Safety + Security, technology, Telematics 1 Comment »‘What is Telematics?’ Infographic
February 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Telematics Update (there is no byline so I can’t give a shout out to the creator) has a cool little interactive infographic explaining the different layers and categories of telematics. It’s not meant to be exhaustive, but it does cover the basis of telematics pretty well. From the core of hardware and providers to enabling [...]
NAVTEQ Doubles In-Vehicle Penetration (By Model) in 2009
February 3rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat NAVTEQ reported that in 2009 their total model availability doubled from 66 in 2008 to 133 continuing the 100% growth from 2007 to 2008. That’s a pretty good growth curve though counting model availability is probably the least indicative way possible to count something in the automotive industry (obviously unit volume matters much more…I’ll see [...]
Posted in LBS, News, Telematics Tags: map, mapping, maps, navteq, navteq provider maps map mapping news, News, provider 1 Comment »
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