Posts Tagged ‘telematics’
Top 5 Vehicle Technologies That Will Change How You Drive
Edmunds predicts that five automotive technologies will have a significant impact on how we drive. They include: Connected Cars – Updated maps, local services and listings, real-time traffic information and much more are now available from your dashboard. Features like Ford’s Sync system and connected navigation. Next-Generation Head-Up [...]
GE Capital Fleet Services Launches New Intelligent Ops Telematics Solution
Related story from Smart Mobile: GE Capital Fleet Unveils Intelligent Ops Telematics Solution Press Release: EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Oct 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GE Capital Fleet Services today announced that it has launched Intelligent Ops(SM), an integrated business intelligence solution for operations and sales leaders who manage mobile [...]
Prepping for the Future of Fleet Management, GPS and Vehicle Telematics (Press Release)
ORLANDO, Fla., -- CES is predicting that GPS will soon be so tightly integrated with field computers and smartphones that they will serve as the delivery mechanism for location tracking, job dispatch and vehicle diagnostics data being transported to the fleet manager or dispatcher. "The now lonesome, covert GPS tracking 'black box' installed in [...]
NAVTEQ: The content and services behind navigation and GPS (video overviews)
These videos give a short overview of NAVTEQ, new spatial content and the location based services. Have you thought about how the map and spatial content for navigation devices and location based services is collected? Do you know what company provides the services behind the leading brands on the market (e.g. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Ford, [...]
Hughes Telematics powering Mercedes’ mbrace and more
You may not have heard of Hughes Telematics before, but this offshoot of the great Hughes empire provides the tech that, amongst other things, powers Mercedes' latest mbrace technology, Benz's response to OnStar. But that's not all they do; the company is working on its own advanced infotainment system for the car, and also showed off a system [...]
The future of high tech trucks is now
While many fleets have experimented with various telematic technology in a portion of their fleet, the economy of scale is improving so quickly that implementing such products in many more trucks working in a wider variety of applications is inevitable over the next decade. Perhaps, most notable is truck OEMs' interest in being directly involved [...]
