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 [...]
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Smartphones and Embedded Systems
March 24th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
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 »Application Spotlight: Aha Mobile
March 18th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Aha Mobile bills itself as interactive personalized radio and aims to deliver a customized ‘radio station’ of streaming audio content created from web and local information relevant to the user. That is, Aha Mobile will give you a customized traffic report, your facebook / twitter updates, yelp reviews and move all based on your preferences [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: app, application spotlight, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, real-time data, real-time traffic, streaming audio, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »Application Spotlight: Waze
March 17th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Waze is a turn-by-turn navigation platform with it’s roots in real-time user provided data. That is, it relies on each user’s phone acting as a probe in its network delivering flow data back to a central server for anonymization and distribution (much like Inrix and Dash) to the user community.
It is a free service that [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: android, applications, apps, automotive, convergence, iphone, real-time data, real-time traffic, social networking, tech, Telematics 8 Comments »Twitter, Now With Geo-Location
March 15th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Last year Twitter acquired Mixer Labs and the Geo API in an effort to continue boosting their location based functionality. Twitter added a ‘local trend’ feature that allows users to see tweets based in a certain area, but the location was manually set by the user. Now Twitter has announced the addition of a more [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, geo, geo api, geo location, News, real time, real-time traffic, Telematics, twitter 6 Comments »Challenges 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 ready [...]
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 »INRIX 2009 National Traffic Scorecard
March 3rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat INRIX’s National Traffic Scored 2009 Annual Report provides year over year insight into traffic patterns nationally.
The high level point is that traffic dropped 30% starting in late 2007, bottomed in Q2′09 and is on the rise again. This pace of this rise though is driven in large part ‘by the pace of economic recovery — [...]
Posted in Etc..., LBS, News Tags: inrix, LBS, real-time data, real-time traffic, tech, 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 of [...]
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 »Ford Sync Feature Spotlight: Traffic, Directions and Information (TDI)
January 25th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Ford recently announced a the new Traffic, Directions and Information (TDI) app for the Ford Sync system.
From Ford’s Press Release:
SYNC TDI leverages a customer’s existing mobile phone; includes an integrated GPS receiver to connect customers to real-time turn-by-turn driving directions, traffic reports and business searches; offers extra features and applications such as favorite news, sports [...]
Posted in CES, Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch Tags: CES, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, gps, LBS, real, real-time data, real-time traffic, Sync 1 Comment »Ford Sync Feature Spotlight: Service Delivery Network
January 22nd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Ford has launched their Service Delivery Network (SDN) to provide real-time access to information in a flexible, integrated, and affordable solution. The system gives Ford Sync users access to voice-activated turn-by-turn directions, traffic, business, news, sports and weather information without the high hardware and subscription costs of many telematics solutions.
The latest and greatest in distributed [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch, Telematics Tags: Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, google navigation, incident data, real-time traffic, Sync, Telematics, traffic 1 Comment »From TechtoLiveBy: Heat Index – 4 Technologies to Watch in 2010
January 6th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site TechtoLiveBy.com highlights 4 consumer technologies to watch in 2010: 4G Wireless, 3D, GeoLocation, and Google.
Of the 4 3D is the one that wont have any near term impact (if ever) on the automotive telematics market.
We’ve already discussed one way Google is shaping the future of real-time traffic and the additonal handsets being released [...]
Posted in CES, Emerging Tech, LBS, Telematics Tags: 2010, 3D, CES, gps, incident data, LBS, real-time traffic, traffic, twitter Comments OffTraffic Data Will Be a Battlezone in 2010
January 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 
Strategy Analytics’ Roger Lanctot talks about traffic data and it’s evolution in 2010. In particular he highlights the need for better incident data and his view of the three technologies that will lead that charge.
The solutions will come in 2010 from three key sources: mobile-phone-based crowd-sourced info, traffic cameras and, perhaps, vehicle-mounted cameras. The challenges [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Featured, LBS Tags: google, google navigation, incident data, real-time traffic, traffic 4 Comments »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 will [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Featured, LBS Tags: api, Emerging Tech, geo api, incident data, mixer labs, real-time traffic, twitter 4 Comments »
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