Challenges in Deploying a Telematics System - Opportunities and Need for Global Standards in Telematics System

摘要

Telematics, a fusion of telecommunication and information technology, is a complex system of integrated services and technologies. The Telematics system architecture consists of a vehicle-mounted hardware (VMH) wirelessly communicating with remote backend systems. These systems include the application servers with appropriate content integration such as maps, and the database servers which collect and publish information exchanged between the VMH and the backend systems. However there are no global standards in Telematics for industry unified architecture for interoperability requirements. This limits the flexibility of integrating multi-vendor hardware, software, GIS content and other third-party applications with the existing Telematics systems. Further, the VMH should support standard protocols for serial communication between the various electronic sub systems of the vehicle.