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Telematic Web Sites
Automotive and GPS Related | General Telematics | Intelligent Transportation Systems | Production/Shipping/Industrial | Law Enforcement/ Public Safety/ E-911 Services | Military/Commercial Fly-By-Wire and Robotic Telematic Research and Applications
Automotive and GPS Related:
How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works web page that describes GPS based technology. This
is a great read for understanding the GPS system. It offers detailed
explanation for people that want to clearly understand how GPS based
location services provide their excellent coverage.
Motorola's
Law Enforcement Enhanced Decision Support
Motorola's Law Enforcement Enhanced Decision Support (LEEDS) Suite
provides law enforcement with an integrated approach to information
collection and decision making.
The Vetronix
The Vetronix company is well positioned to take advantage of the
increasing convergence of automobile, computers, and wireless
communication services. Their web page provides a history of the
company and provides information about the services and products that
they offer. This is a well rounded company for the telematics industry.
http://www.onstar.com
OnStar is a subsidiary to General Motors and provides GPS/ Wireless
applications to new car buyers through partnerships with over 11
automobile manufacturers. Their website is a great place to see the
potential of all of the products and services that can be packaged for
new automobiles.
General Telematics:
ITS/Telematics and
related companies
This is Robert William Stack's collection of Telematic related web
pages. The rest of his web page is not related to telematics, but this
link list he provides is very extensive. Some of the links are dead,
but many of them will take you to different telematic related subjects
and organizations.
Global Telematics
A company devoted to policy and applications in Telematics, with links
to their research studies and articles. Broad reaching work deals with
intelligent transportation systems, telecommuting, digital
infrastructure and regional development, and monitoring Internet
impacts. Broad-based.
Plymouth
University Telematics Video
This Plymouth University site takes the more general definition of
telematics (combining information and communication technologies) and
tries to apply it to distance learning and incorporates a navigation
menu of material including a general overview of telematics, research,
publications, videoconferencing, and satellites among others.
Redwood
House.com
This web page is dedicated to computer devices and applications that
ultimately will be worn by the users. It is relevant to telematics,
because the next step will be the full integration of truly "mobile"
computing from the office, car, to the individual.
http://www.telematicsupdate.com
This is the definitive portal for someone with a great interest in
telematics. The articles and papers provided by this website are up to
date and relevant to the industry.
Telematics
Journal
Site with stories, events, online polls, and a daily newsletter from
the Telematics Journal.
Intelligent Transportation Systems:
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/transport/index.html
This web page is provided by the Community Research and Development
Information Service of the European Union.
Telematics
Application Programme
This document gives an overview about the commercial vehicle
electronics and telematic architecture, and it also lists
recommendations for truck manufacturers and solution providers
regarding on board systems integrated architecture specifications.
Production/Shipping/Industrial Telematics:
Eye
for Transport.com
Eyefortransport is a web site portal for the transport industry. This
link takes you to their "tracking and connectivity" pages where they
highlight stories and articles about the technologies that assist in
shipping tracking, communications, and management.
Globaltrack.com
Another satellite tracking service company. By clicking on the menu at
the bottom of the first page, the reader can get an understanding of
the level of sophistication that is involved in the tracking industry.
It also points out that these type of companies see an opportunity for
value added services that expand their revenue stream potentials.
Skybitz.com
Skybitz has brought the shipping industry and satellite tracking to the
forefront of container tracking. The website explains some of the
telematics that can be sourced through satellite communications with
real time query of container status.
Thales Telematics
This website is important because it provides potential customer's of
Thales Telematics to view a demonstration of services. What is of
interest is several of the topics in the demonstration such as "route
violation", "Zone Violations", and "historical route information".
Freight drivers beware!
Law Enforcement/ Public Safety/ E-911 Services:
Military/Commercial Fly-By-Wire and Robotic Telematic Research and Applications:
Fly-By-Wire
(FBW) systems for cars
Description of research being done to create Fly-By-Wire (FBW) systems
for cars. These systems will make cars more responsive, cheaper to
construct, and provide active safety functions that intercede to
prevent total control loss of a vehicle.
Intelligent
Systems and Robotics
Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center's web page provides an overview
of the different robots that are teleoperated remotely. The robots are
"skill specific" to offer an alternative to the commercial and military
functions that put humans in harms way.
The Unmanned
Aerial Forum
The Unmanned Aerial Forum is the definitive web page for information
about unmanned aerial vehicles. It lists technical descriptions,
performance metrics, and primary uses. Links are provided to many of
the vendor web pages for further reading and color photos.
http://uav.wff.nasa.gov
This NASA/Wallops Flight Facility web page describes all of the
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that NASA is currently testing or have been
tested and used for military and civilian uses all over the world. This
is related to telematics in the aspect that UAVs are remotely
controlled.
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