Imagine being able to check
the oil and fuel level of your car, or defrost the windows, heat the interior
and check traffic – all while you sit at your kitchen table eating breakfast!
Or consider driving home after work and being able to turn on the air conditioner,
and then the microwave to cook your dinner!
SmartMove, the Belgium-based
vehicle telematics software developer and integrator, has brought this vision
one step closer with the creation of a full-service delivery chain for OSGi-compliant
services bundles. Fully compliant with OSGI’s Specification Release 1.0, the
SmartMove Open Telematics Framework makes it possible to exchange information
and services between providers and an in-home or in-office gateway, the same
way it does with the vehicle, thus bringing together total wireless communications
between office, home and car.
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According to Steven Buytaert,
co-CEO at SmartMove, “This is exactly the kind of scenario the future will
bring. It is our belief that, very soon, services and information delivery to
home and car networks will be organized by means of one common platform. We
have been actively participating within OSGi, showing our commitment to working
with others, not only to create standards for information and service delivery
to the vehicle, but also to create a platform for information and services exchange
between home networks and tomorrow’s car networks.”
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This makes it possible to access, download and use the services that are offered
for in-home use, both at home and in a vehicle’s mobile environment, and the
other way around — creating an enormous potential for telematics service providers
to offer their services to drivers and passengers. Banking applications, Web
browsing, on-demand navigation, remote diagnostics, online shopping, etc., will
all benefit from the added synergy between information exchange and the compatibility
of resident and mobile services on one common platform.
“SmartMove has been
working very hard on the match between our own Java-based intelligent communications
computer specifications and those developed by OSGI,” says Marc Maes, co-CEO
of SmartMove.
“This recent accomplishment
is not only an important milestone for the company, but it will also create
a lot of new business opportunities. And without losing our current business
focus on the automotive industry, we’ve proven for the first time that our technology
is perfectly applicable for more than mobile platforms,” he adds.
The OSGi Mobility Expert Group is working to define a standard application programming
interface (API) to obtain the location of the gateway and provide location information
to applications. The first meeting of this group is scheduled for October 26-27,
2000, hosted by SmartMove at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.
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By GlobalDataAbout SmartMove
SmartMove NV (www.smartmove-eu.com)
was founded in 1996 and received funding from several European venture capitalists.
SmartMove holds several international patents in the field of vehicle telematics,
and employs 90 people, most of them engineers. Based in Leuven, Belgium, the
company’s U.S. subsidiary, SmartMove USA is located in Cambridge, Mass. SmartMove
will be exhibiting in Booth #884 at Convergence 2000, at Cobo Center in Detroit,
Mich., October 16-18.
About OSGi
The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi), is a non-profit corporation formed
to provide a forum for the creation of open specifications for the delivery
of multiple services over wide-area networks to local networks and devices,
and to accelerate the demand for products and services based on these specifications
worldwide through the sponsorship of market and user education programs. The
San Ramon, California, USA-based consortium comprises 70 member organizations
from around the globe. Membership is open to any interested party, including
Internet Service Providers, Network Operators, Original Equipment Manufacturers,
Independent Software Vendors, end users, academic institutions, government agencies,
and non-profit organizations. The consortium’s Web site address is www.osgi.org.
