The trends and themes of CeBIT 2010 spanned a wide berth on the App boom about 3D technologies to the digital health assistant. In the business-focused IT solutions, cloud computing, SaaS, ERP solutions with new virtualization capabilities and energy-efficient systems in the foreground. ... Read more
The avionics system in the F-22 Raptor, the current U.S. Air Force frontline jet fighter, consists of about 1.7 million lines of software code. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, scheduled to become operational in 2010, will require about 5.7 million lines of code to operate its onboard systems. And Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner, scheduled to be delivered to customers in 2010, requires about 6.5 million lines of software code to operate its avionics and onboard support systems. ... Read more
If something was missing from Expoagro to qualify as a real town in the countryside, the company has just settle Geosistemas: in what is considered a novelty worldwide, this signature Argentina devised a detailed plan of the exhibition, with the location of each street and each stand, so that visitors can walk without fear of losing his team and guided by GPS. These are things of the modern field, a tit among many technological advances that will be exhibited from tomorrow until Saturday Baradero. ... Read more
The development of M2M (Machine to Machine) machines and machines for achieving the interaction between the means of communication in all trades and network resources to achieve interoperability, to create multi-directional, full three-dimensional type of things are necessary manufacturing information. ... Read more
Telematics has become synonymous with automatic crash notification and roadside assistance, thanks to the admirable and successful marketing efforts of General Motors and OnStar. But telematics is so much more than this and this story needs to be told, particularly in the wake of Toyota’s recall debacle. ... Read more
It’s commonly accepted wisdom in the automotive industry that telematics technology is reliable and ready to market. For evidence, consider GM OnStar, Mercedes-Benz mbrace, Toyota Safety Connect/Enform, BMW Assist, or the Ford SYNC system. Automakers only have to develop a convincing business case, and they are good to go. ... Read more
RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, “World GPS Market Forecast to 2013” to its report gallery. Global Positioning System (GPS) is a groundbreaking tool offering unequal accuracy as well as flexibility of positioning for surveying, navigation and Geographic Information System (GIS) data capture. ... Read more
The World Bank LPI (Logistics Performance Index) 2010 has just been released. This snapshot of selected performance indicators in nearly 130 countries demonstrates clearly the correlation between logistics performance and sustainable economic growth. ... Read more
Despite the economic downturn taking a bite out of the growth of key machine-to-machine applications, M2M and embedded device revenues are slated to reach $18.9 billion globally by 2014, led by telematics and in-vehicle applications. ... Read more
AEMP's Telematics Data Standard is essentially complete, pending ratification by the participating manufacturers and telematics providers. The AEMP Technology Committee anticipates a January 2010 release of the standard document, with a development kit to follow shortly thereafter. Volunteer developers from McFadyen & Associates, Caterpillar, John Deere Construction & Forestry, Volvo Construction Equipment, Komatsu Americas, and the Caterpillar/Trimble joint venture, Virtual Site Solutions, anticipate an Oct. 1, 2010, launch date for support of the data transfer standard. ... Read more
With the economy into a tailspin and confidence of citizens in soils, with the idea to persuade consumers to spend their money is one of the major goals of any company. What are the trends that will change the world in 2010? ... Read more
The private security sector is a global industry comprising services and solutions such as manned guarding, alarm system integration and monitoring, cash and valuables handling as well as various services like consulting and private investigations. ... Read more
As China's private car ownership in a significant upgrading and awareness of GPS navigation features rely on, with GPS enabled mobile phone users are increasingly being favored. In 2009, China's GPS mobile phone market has made rapid progress, GPS mobile phone users attention, all the way from the beginning of the year rose at the end of the three into Nearly half, from the development trend, in 2010, much more than 50% possible.
2010, before the Spring Festival China GPS mobile phone market, the brand which most users to pay attention? Internet Consumer Research Center, ZDC's findings as shown below.
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According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, 1.4 percent of the mobile network connections worldwide were used for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication at the end of 2009. ... Read more
Affect your purchase of car GPS navigation system, factors of 1. You pay more attention to car navigation system which features (multiple choice) design the screen size of the processor core storage form / volume of quality spare parts navigation system map upgrade services to install the simplicity of the other two. ... Read more
End of the year drew to a close, inventory of the domestic electronics market, and the other in 2009 were eye-opening is the fastest growing industry is the car GPS, its sales have reached 50 billion yuan, annual sales growth rate of over 50% growth rate over the automotive market. ... Read more
Future car GPS navigation systems must be very small, compact car to a place not easily be detected; the future of car GPS navigation systems must be very intelligent and does not need hands-you can know immediately they want to go places; the future GPS will certainly not just for car users to use, from digital cameras to mobile phones, as long as we have found things that touch of a button will be able to immediately know our place, for our service. ... Read more
Nothing captures the spirit of the American lifestyle better than the open road, with the endless highway of possibilities unwinding in front of you. And if there's one thing we love as much as our cars, it's the gadgets in our cars. ... Read more
The market researcher Bishop & Associates has focused in his latest report on the GPS navigation market, and has published material to predict the possible lists (BOM) - in terms of design and trends in GPS devices over the next 3 years. ... Read more
Terrible story once told over a cup of tea, my friend the General, a former director of one major NII under the Ministry of Defense (name, for obvious reasons asked not to advertise): Just imagine: sitting any U.S. president at his dacha. Hears that a mosquito buzzing. He feels that bites. Slaps him. And supposedly kills - buzz dies down. But in fact this "mosquito" has already penetrated into the body and held his breath in anticipation of the order. ... Read more
The 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was down in attendance last year—some estimate as much as 40 percent. However, a new feeling of optimism, and several product rollouts, made this year’s edition seem livelier—even in a down economy. Ford, once again, is touting new features for its Sync telematics system and other companies are following along. ... Read more
If Steve Jobs decided to design a stick-on-your-windshield gizmo to handle payment of road tolls, what would he do so that people would line up outside the Apple store starting the night before to be the first to get one? ... Read more
The company Navteq, the world leader in digital map data, location just give us the results of an analysis to quantify the actual use of navigation systems and location information. According to this study, the use of navigation by the general public has doubled in recent years but only about 50%, even in mature markets. ... Read more
While the Internet has become a mass phenomenon for the past twenty years, nobody can deny the fact that the last ten years have been placed under the sign of Google. At the beginning of the decade, Google was just a clever search algorithm supported by some investors cautious.It lacked a CEO, a brand and a way to earn money. Today is a verb, an empire and Technology ... Read more
Imagine the most captivating, comforting and satisfying features of a vehicle. Now, imagine them being executed at the most convenient manner. This and more could be had through the Telematics Solutions from Continental Automotive Systems. ... Read more
A vision of the in-car future has been previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with automakers unveiling app-download technology similar to that used by smartphones. ... Read more
ABI Research is local time in Singapore, the United States January 7, 2010, released a survey on the semiconductor market for mobile phones. Fastest-growing chip it says connection, Bluetooth, GPS, wireless LAN-related 2009-year sales rose 16 percent to 19 billion dollars. Average annual growth rate from 2009 to 2014 years will rise by 11 percent. ... Read more
Readers are so used to reading technology trends everytime the year starts. For a change, let us turn the table around, this time we will share with you a recent ABI Research white paper titled “What’s Not Going to Happen in 2010.” ... Read more
It isn't just geeks who want connected cars. By 2016 mainstream buyers will base much of their buying decisions based on the car's ability to communicate to the outside world and also to connect phones and entertainment devices. ... Read more
ABI Research forecasts Global Navigation Satellite System shipments to reach more than 500 million worldwide in 2010 and to continue growing to 1.1 billion in 2014. GNSS technology is gaining momentum across a wide range of segments and applications such as navigation, telematics, person tracking, fitness and high precision industrial applications including machine control, network timing and surveying. ... Read more
The global recession has struck a heavy blow to the global auto industry over the past two years, pushing even the biggest manufacturers (such as Toyota) into the red. Now the industry is recovering in many parts of the world, and auto telematics has again become a hot topic. ... Read more
2006-2007 PND market has experienced explosive growth, the entire internal GPS industries are full of impetuous optimism, many people in the trade say China's GPS time has come, under the premise of many "follow the trend of people" one after another into the water, but the domestic small - manufacturers melee resulted in the domestic PND market in 2007 slowed down and did not think so optimistic, many practitioners have begun to look at things more calmly this industry. ... Read more
Asia Pacific is likely to see growth in new feeder ports and transshipment in the next few years as the economy recovers and global trade of merchandized goods increases due to the gradual reduction of trade barriers. ... Read more
By 2016, an estimated 62.3 million cars will have access to the Internet, according to a report by iSuppli, a market research company. iSuppli also says there are currently about 970,000 cars with some form of Web access. ... Read more
The company estimates iSuppli , by 2016, 62.3 million consumers worldwide will have access to the Internet from the car. Today, their number is much smaller – 970 thousand According to the analyst, Automotive Research Service Egill Yuliussena (Egil Juliussen), the proliferation of smartphones demand for the opportunity to enter the World Wide Web from the saloon cars is also increasing, and carmakers meet it by equipping vehicles with different electronics. ... Read more
An estimated 62.3 million consumers worldwide will have internet access in their cars by 2016, up from 970,000 at the end of 2009, an analyst has claimed. ... Read more
Motorists are increasingly interested in the vehicle at low cost according to a study of the European Observatory Cetelem Automobile conducted in six countries (Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom) and made public Thursday . ... Read more
"Today, in the automobile sector, 90% of innovations are related to the development of applications based on semiconductors. Besides, NXP, market shares rose sharply between 2005 and 2008 on this sector and today, 1 sensor market just over 3 at NXP, "said Michel Valette, head automotive sector, NXP.The company specializes in semiconductors has indeed developed several technology applications for the automotive sector. ... Read more
The telecommunications sector has in the past year negative growth, losing 4% increase in overall sales, according to research from GfK Group, which describes the Middle East and India as the only markets to escape this scenario. ... Read more
If you think watch how many people may not be able enough to lay down the required number on the bill at a restaurant or playi scrabble, there is the idea that we are losing some of the basic skills, constantly relying on machines to do work for us. ... Read more
Sales of telematics systems in Western Europe is expected to increase according to a forecast by iSuppli, until 2016, at a factor of five compared to 2008 because the car manufacturers are willing to equip their models in the region with telematics systems. ... Read more
Global sales of smart cards are expected to rebound next year after a 2009 marked by a slowdown in growth, but also by relatively good performance against the global economic situation. With worldwide sales up 5% this year and a 10% growth expected in 2010, the industry smart card proves its resistance to the crisis. On the occasion of the opening yesterday of the Cartes and IDentification 2009, being held until Thursday at Villepinte, the association Eurosmart said it expected to sell this year some 5.14 billion cards chip in the world, 4.4 billion microprocessor cards (bank cards, SIM cards, identification, etc.).. The balance is made up of smart cards, equipped with a lesser intelligence. ... Read more
Brian Solis on the future of Twitter. ... Read more
To “create demand” the great companies pick up trends and use them. In a sense, they are not actually creating demand. They are just tapping into demand areas yet to be identified by competitors. ... Read more
Market researcher iSuppli (Tempe, Ariz.) sees a boom in the automotive industry towards telematics. Through the year 2016, iSuppli predicts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.5 percent in terms of units for the Western European market. But there are significant differences between automotive brands. ... Read more
Google's launch of free turn-by-turn will not result in disaster for navigation suppliers, says Joanne Blight of Strategy Analytics. ... Read more
According to a new report from IMS Research, GPS/Hybrid Location in Cellular handsets, the GPS & location industry faces a second wave of design challenges that will greatly alter the competitive landscape and the resulting services that can be successfully offered. ... Read more
The mobile will become a not too distant future in "the remote control of our lives", will be our preferred means of Internet access, make payments to him as the subway everyday, and the information they generate will be released preferences of citizens. ... Read more
DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of SBD's new report "The Impact of Mandatory Anti-theft Systems in Brazil" to their offering. How will the legal requirement for stolen vehicle tracking systems affect theft trends and future telematics service opportunities? ... Read more
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I was far more inspired by the experience of using SL, Stockholm’s public transportation system, than I was by the congress itself. SL demonstrated what I didn’t even know was possible with public transportation. ... Read more
A recent report from IBM points out that as the world becomes more urbanized – with 70% of the globe’s population projected living in cities by the year 2050 – cities are struggling to keep pace with increased roadway congestion. ... Read more
Europe 30 percent of all new cars are purchased by leasing companies. These companies is brought about an enormous buying power. Leasing is used primarily by commercial companies. .While mainly in the past was one of the state, now play fuel efficiency and low CO2 emissions, an increasingly important role. To mobilize and leasing assistance to strengthen the demand for fuel-efficient cars, calls on the ecologically-oriented Traffic Club Germany (VCD), leasing companies and large fleet operators to participate in the European campaign "Cleaner Car Contracts" (CCC) to. ... Read more
The Machine-to-Machine (M2M) slows growth in 2009, but for renewed energy in 2010, according to the latest report Idate.A revival driven by regulation and the adoption by businesses. But also, and finally by the emergence of business models. ... Read more
DUBLIN--(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Strategic Analysis of European Vehicle Technologies Evolution" to their offering. ... Read more
About a year ago, the industry of global satellite navigation systems (GNSS) began to leave the ground from under their feet. Companies that were promised handsome profits for their investors, were castles in the sand. Forecasts, based in evidence of market growth and sales were fairly optimistic Industry leaders, Garmin and TomTom, also showed positive dynamics of sales that attract private investors willing to invest in projects of GPS / LBS. ... Read more
As OE telematics start to emerge in China, SBD provides an overview of the current and planned service launches along with market forecasts and the key issues vehicle manufacturers and service providers are facing with licensing, partnerships and public sector constraints. ... Read more
China's auto industry directly contributing to the prosperity of the automotive electronics industry's rapid rise. China's auto industry, the rapid development in recent years, annual output of 2007 to nearly 8.8824 million, second only to Japan and the United States as the world's third largest auto producer. ... Read more
ABI Research predicts that LBS revenues will grow by 156% from $1.7 billion in 2008 to $2.6 billion in 2009. By 2014, global LBS revenues will exceed $14 billion. ... Read more
The data emerging from the report "Mobile advertising grows in silence" of the research firm Gartner Research, says investment in mobile marketing and advertising worldwide will grow by over 70% during the year 2009, thus reaching a investment volume exceeding 913 million U.S. dollars. ... Read more
Experts have identified numerous business models that could work for different segments of the mobile industry. However, too many people still find ways to get it wrong. ... Read more
Shipments of GPS for sport and fitness for specific hardware, such as the Suunto GPS watch and cycling computers from Garmin, are suffering from the recession But requests for applications to fitness as MotionX-GPS are growing, with 1.2 million downloads in 2009. ... Read more
About 5% of Australia’s GDP is spent transporting goods and people. However, many aspects of road transport cause considerable concern such as the negative externalities of congestion for commuters, carbon emissions and the external costs of traffic accidents. Australian roads are also a large user of public resources - in 2005/06 $11b was spent on them. They are also subject to considerable taxation – fuel excises in 2005 were $10b and registration charges were considerable. ... Read more
Last week at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) annual conference in Las Vegas, Greg Rohde, executive director of the E-911 Institute, expressed his frustration with the lack of progress the 911 sector has made toward what is expected to be a very bright future borne of some amazing technological advances. At the heart of the inertia is a lack of funding. ... Read more
The mapping companies Tele Atlas, TomTom and Navteq, Nokia will have another competitor, the fruit of the union of three companies mapping. ... Read more
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/186991/strategic_insights) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Strategic Insights of the Japanese Commercial Vehicle Telematics Market" to their offering. ... Read more
BERLIN — The next frontier for lower mobile calling rates in Europe is cracking a 20-year-old system of connection fees that has rewarded bigger operators and has artificially raised rates to consumers.Since March, regulators in Germany, France and Spain have cut this special charge for calling a mobile phone — known as the mobile termination rate — by 30 percent to 50 percent. In Britain, Ofcom, the communications regulator, is considering how much to trim rates there. ... Read more
Alexander Gurko ,the General Director of «M2M telematics» shares his views on the impact of increased import duties on GPS devices. M2M Telematics - the largest Russian operator, telematic and a software developer, subscriber equipment to the monitoring of mobile and stationary objects on the basis of satellite navigation systems GLONASS and GPS, cellular GSM (GPRS / SMS), satellite Inmarsat. ... Read more
Commercial fleets are extending the life cycle of their vehicles but car fleets are not, according to fleet software company Jaama. ... Read more
Japan is at the vanguard of 3G technology development, network build and commercialisation. NTT DoCoMo launched the world's first commercial 3G network in late 2001, and while service providers in 115 other countries have since followed suit, Japan still lays claim to the largest 3G subscriber base in the world. With almost 92 million UMTS users at the end of March 2009, Japan has 50% more 3G subscribers than the United States, and three times as many as South Korea. ... Read more
US mobile operator Verizon Wireless has teamed up with Californian silicon vendor Qualcomm to form a joint venture focused on machine to machine (M2M) communications and ‘smart services’. ... Read more
Worldwide sales of phones equipped with GPS processors, which use satellites to determine the orbital location of a user registered a sharp increase in 2009, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. ... Read more
A detailed study by Accenture and Vodafone builds on earlier modelling to reveal concrete and credible examples of how mobile communications can help to reduce carbon emissions. ... Read more
The nascent Russian navigation and telematics market is witnessing a reversal of trends, with global positioning system (GPS)-enabled smartphone technology gaining ground over traditional portable navigation devices (PND). In 2009, the smartphone-based navigation market already exceeded 350,000 units sold in Russia, while the PND market failed to register even half that amount. ... Read more
Although the Indian market for telematics in commercial vehicles, is highly lucrative, it is also a challenging one. Telematics companies must not only figure out a way to successfully bring the product to this highly fragmented market, but will also have to deal with the job of convincing customers to buy them. ... Read more
For years a company close to me here in Oxfordshire, Transense Technology (LSE: TRT), has been developing tyre pressure monitors. These alert truck drivers when the air pressure in the vehicle's tyres falls below the manufacturer's recommended level. Sounds like a great idea. ... Read more
Morning News (Reporter XIAO Dan) induced through the parking guidance system to quickly find the nearest parking spaces, into the subway station through the brush fast card ... ... reporters yesterday in Beijing traffic from the General Assembly was informed that the scientific and technological innovation, science and technology innovation in this City, the wider use of the field of transportation construction, and by 2015, there will be one million motor vehicles with independent intellectual property rights to install a new generation of GPS. ... Read more
Machine-to-machine communications (machine-to-machine communication, referred to as M2M, networking, also known as objects) are associated with China's 3G telecom industry that a hot word. As for the still relatively "fresh" the application of the urgent needs of the Chinese market, "stones from other hills" as a reference ... Read more
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navigation devices are used differently in the US and Europe, according to a recent online survey conducted by ABI Research in both regions. The survey included responses from 766 navigation users in the US, and 255 users in the UK, Germany, and France. ... Read more
With the car's popularity, automotive means of transport is no longer a tool, especially in the development of information technology-assisted project, becoming more and more intelligent car. Today, GPS is not nothing new games, in-car Internet access has also started to buy a car of life. The future, the smart car will be more intelligent, remote control home appliances, such as when you drive home, intelligent home appliances have been prepared for you delicious meals. ... Read more
Yet another research report confirms that in this tough economy, GPS fleet tracking is helping companies maintain customer-satisfaction levels, optimize vehicle usage and control service-related costs. ... Read more
A sharp focus on behalf of commercial mobile network operators on machine-to-machine communications is not only a boon to the utility sector but public safety as well, according to Sam Lucero, senior analyst with ABI Research. ... Read more
OEMs continue to enhance existing embedded and hybrid telematics services and launch new ones, driving global penetration rates in new cars to 12 percent in 2010 and 43 percent in 2014, says analyst ABI Research. ... Read more
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Key Growth Trends in the European Markets for Road User Charging, Congestion Charging, Public Transport & Ticketing and Parking" to their offering. ... Read more
According to ABI, OEMs' continued efforts to enhance existing embedded and hybrid telematics services and/or launch new ones will drive global penetration rates in new cars to 12% in 2010 and 43% in 2014. ... Read more
LSE claims £15bn in broadband, smart grids and transport management systems would provide greater economic stimulus than spending on roads and bridges. ... Read more
Environmentalists, utilities, and green businesses are turning to behavioral economics to find innovative ways of influencing people to do the right thing when it comes to the environment. Is this approach really good for the planet or just a fad? ... Read more
Ian Walmsley of Eagle-i Holdings and Denny Payton of Harvey Ingram share the views on investing in telematics. ... Read more
(live-PR.com) - DUBLIN, Ireland (Research and Markets) - Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/research/31ec68/an_an ..) has announced the addition of the "An Analysis of Private eCall and OE Telematics Services in Europe" report to their offering. ... Read more
The impact of the economic downturn was clearly visible at CeBIT this year. While visitor numbers once reached half a million, the 2009 version at times left a rather depressing image with some halls only filled for 50 % and many booths desperately reaching out to the sparse visitors passing by. ... Read more
With gas prices heading higher each year, many people are looking for resourceful ways to save on fuel, such as taking the bus, the train, riding a bike or car-pooling to work. Yet even with these money-saving tactics, drivers are still paying for full auto insurance coverage on their vehicles. ... Read more
Some years ago the dream was an "auto 3% '(ie able to travel with 3 liters of fuel 100 km), today the goal is a' self% 1", but not all. The car of the future will have along with one liter 100 km, but will also be able to exchange data and information with the asphalt, with whom the lead, with sensors distributed on the streets and with other vehicles to minimize the time-distance (a 'Intelligent cars to reduce consumption) and reduce drastically the risk of accidents, "entertain" the driver and passenger communications systems with video and audio to allow it to be not only a means of locomotion, but also an efficient mobile office, car lighter and low cost that can work harder and when it is parked is not idle, but if connected to an outlet, generates clean energy (distributed generation), a car, a "zero emission" for an effective protection of 'environment. ... Read more
The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. ... Read more
European companies could save 150 million euros a year if they chose to optimize their fleet management. According to the findings of the 'Vehicle Policy Study 2008' conducted by GE Capital Solutions the savings per vehicle could be 900 euros per year. ... Read more
DENVER (Billboard) - Wireless carriers appear poised to deliver on what the mobile industry has long seen as its holy grail -- location-based services. ... Read more
After several years of breeding market, GPS being recognized more and more consumers, in 2008 GPS market is still the same as last year, has maintained a good growth momentum, the entire navigation market, showing a flourishing, and along with the publicity As well as expanding the public's understanding of GPS products continued to deepen, with the exception of some specialized high-end car navigation system configuration, convenient, easy-to-use, cost-effective products PND by the general public, many consumers, especially the well-known brand GPS products prices ... Read more
The growth of the industrial sector, like other sectors in Indonesia, will slow down amid the global economic crisis in 2009, with the manufacturing industry likely to be affected most. The ministry of Industry has predicted that the economic meltdown will badly hit non-oil/gas sectors. But it could not yet provide an exact estimate on the slowing down of the industrial growth in the country in 2009. ... Read more
According to new a research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of fleet management systems deployed in commercial fleets in Europe was 1.3 million in Q4-2008, an increase of 23.8 percent year-on-year. ... Read more
At present, in North America, Europe and Japan is quite popular telematics services will come to China. In 2009, has been in the industry believe that China is the first year of telematics services industry. ... Read more
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Commercial Vehicle Telematics in US$ Million. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Rest of World. ... Read more
For the first time in the last 20 years, the robberies and thefts of vehicles fell by 16.74% from the first of January and October 2008 in the same period of last year in the Grande Cuiabá. ... Read more
Chinese intelligent transportation network products around the current GPS technology, attention focused on the consumer navigation and location-based services, but little-known industrial GPS applications such as precision agriculture, mapping and geographic information systems, engineering machinery control, network time , Marine and aviation electronic equipment, is being widely used in business, so as to enhance the quality, safety, efficiency and reduce costs. ... Read more
At home, traveling, at coffee shop, in the street ... We can be almost any time connected to the Internet, especially with mobile devices like the iPhone. Everywhere? No: the automobile remains in this regard "old tech", adding to its current ills. ... Read more
In the location-based services, hand-held device users to exchange application is considered to be a very important component. The latter can provide friends, address search, as well as location coordinates, and other services, are broad prospects for application in the future, is expected to be in 2013, GPS-based social network users will reach 82,000,000. ... Read more
You've probably heard the radio commercial for OnStar in which a distraught driver tells a dispatcher that she's locked herself out of her car. No problem, replies the dispatcher, who uses satellite tracking to locate the vehicle and sends a control command over the wireless network to unlock the vehicle's doors remotely. All is well in the land of telematics. ... Read more
Telematics systems are quickly becoming standard equipment on new passenger vehicles, according to ABI Research (Oyster Bay, New York), which predicts that 30 million new cars will have onboard telematics units by 2013. ... Read more
Despite the automotive industry being severely impacted by economic downturn and high fuel prices, the consumer telematics industry continues to see healthy levels of innovation, with BMW and Chrysler leading the way. ... Read more
Machine-to-machine technology is gaining traction among businesses across all industries, and many view connecting machines to the Internet as a way to stay competitive, according to a recent survey conducted by Beecham Research Ltd. ... Read more
In-car telematics installations are expected to become very popular as drivers start to appreciate the advantages of GPS and cellular communication, according to analysts.ABI Research predicted that OEM and aftermarket consumer telematics hardware and services will generate annual revenues of $41bn by 2013. ... Read more
If the BRIC markets are a key area of interest for your business, European Automotive Consultancy, SBD, can help you find success with detailed business analysis reports focussing on each BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). ... Read more
This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Strategic Analysis of the European Market for eCall and bCall Systems provides market measurements and competitive information on the eCall market in Europe. ... Read more
Researchers seeking equitable alternatives to the lump-sum pricing practice of U.S. auto insurers may have stumbled upon a partial solution to global warming. ... Read more
Actuarial consultant EMB is advising insurers to jump on the telematics bandwagon and give auto insurers the option to “pay as they drive,” to paraphrase Progressive Insurance’s patented cliché (Pay As You Drive). “Usage-based insurance will become the industry standard in the next five years,” EMB predicts. ... Read more
iSuppli Corp. is pleased to announce it is driving automotive market research to the next level by acquiring Telematics Research Group, Inc. (TRG), the leader in vehicle-electronics business intelligence. ... Read more
The growth and potential impact of telematics on the aftermarket is the focus of a new study created by the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association (AAIA). ... Read more
Despite the automotive industry being severely hit by economic downturn and high fuel prices, the consumer telematics industry continues to see healthy levels of innovation, with BMW and Chrysler leading the way; both plan to bring Internet access or Wi-Fi connectivity to cars in the United States this year. ... Read more
With cost pressures steadily increasing, fleet managers are being challenged to get more productivity from their vehicles and drivers so that customer satisfaction is kept high and corporate goals are met. ... Read more
Having established itself as a leader in software, the vehicle tracking segment of the Indian telematics market is expected to reach satisfactory levels by the end of 2010. ... Read more
The growth of industry in the theft of loads become the industry of tracking and monitoring one of the most competitive in the road and led companies to adopt the system and prepare the drivers for this technology. ... Read more
The digital revolution long promised for your car _ known in the automotive business as telematics _ has arrived. Over the next few model years, drivers will be able to do things such as find a nearby gas station with the lowest price, pay bills, order movies, schedule hair appointments. ... Read more
Thanks to the good performance of the economy and the constant growth of the market for electronic security in recent years, the unit of Siemens Building Technologies, which develops integrated security systems, fire protection and automation land, for 2008 foresees a growth of 30% in Brazil. ... Read more
With more and more consumers discovering the benefits of navigation and related services, ABI Research forecasts that navigation devices and systems will achieve annual sales revenues of $62 billion by 2012. ... Read more
The number of cellular network connections used for machine-to-machine communication has been forecasted to sky rocket to 186 million from 37.5 million connections in 2007 to 186 million connections in 2012. ... Read more
In the future, Bluetooth devices will be used for more than hands-free wireless communications. The wireless communications devices could potentially be used in people at risk of heart attack or diabetic collapse to notify emergency services, according to a report from Ofcom. ... Read more
Cellular machine-to-machine connections are set to rise by a compound annual growth rate of over a third in the next four years, analyst firm Berg Insight has predicted, driven by rollouts of vehicle telematics. The number of mobile network connections used for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will grow from 37.5 million in 2007 to 186 million in 2012, according to the analyst firm. ... Read more
The number of cellular network connections used for machine-to-machine communication will grow from 37.5 million in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.9 percent to 186 million connections in 2012, according to Berg Insight (Gothenburg, Sweden). ... Read more
OnStar has been ranked at the top of the latest Consumer Telematics Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. BMW and Nissan claimed the second and third spots in the company’s most recent evaluation of worldwide consumer telematics vendors. ... Read more
Analyst firm Berg Insight found 2.2 million passenger cars in Europe had an on-board telematics device at the end of last year. Stolen vehicle tracking is the primary telematics application, followed by automatic emergency calling, driver assistance and motor insurance telematics. ... Read more
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c89046) has announced the addition of “Strategic Analysis of the European Markets for eCall and bCall Systems” to their offering. ... Read more
Almost two years ago, the new EU finally implemented legislation mandating the installation of digital tachographs on all newly registered trucks weighing more than 3.5 tonnes and buses carrying more than nine persons. ... Read more
The worldwide telematics market is poised for continuous growth, with total production to hit 11.7 million sets by 2011, according to the Telematics Research Group. Reflecting the robust global industry, Taiwan has about 50 suppliers of telematics-related products, including automatic vehicle location (AVL), portable navigation devices (PNDs) and telematics-embedded products. ... Read more
Global Positioning System (GPS) is a revolutionary tool, which provides unequalled accuracy and flexibility of positioning for navigation, surveying and Geographic information system (GIS) data capture. ... Read more
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