China is emerging as one of the world’s leading telematics markets with vehicle sales expected to rise from 21 million units in 2013 to nearly 34 million in 2019. Frost & Sullivan predicts that “Chinese market for telematics services will swell from 0.4 million subscribers in 2012 to nearly 4.0 million subscribers by 2018.”

WirelessCar has been witnessing and contributing to the rapid growth of the mass market. 

This award was given by China Electronic Academy (subsidiary of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) on Telematics Industry Development Forum held in Shenzhen April 10th, 2013, this, after having won the award for “Best China Telematics Company” at the IOVA Annual Conference in January 2013 in Beijing. The event, jointly organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the municipal government of Shenzhen, gathered more than 1,200 exhibitors demonstrating their latest products, involving technologies from the entire electronic information industry chain.

“Again, WirelessCar has been recognized on the global Telematics scene. The early focus on China from 2008, creating the network, partnerships and organization has clearly put WirelessCar in a leading position on the China market which is being confirmed by this highly prestige award.” said Martin Rosell, Managing Director WirelessCar.

Since its initial footprint in China in 2008, WirelessCar began to believe in the strong potential for Chinese markets’ long-term growth. That is why WirelessCar started early to build up specific know-how with a first pilot project initiated in China in 2008. In 2011, WirelessCar founded its own subsidiaries in Beijing and Tianjin with combined knowledge of the automotive business and technology from different areas of development, testing and service operation.

WirelessCar offers connected services for customers like BMW and Audi in China, through delivering a proven and sustainable technology platform to enable customers’ ability of leveraging the benefits of open architecture.

WirelessCar has cross-sector experience in automotive and commercial vehicle industries and delivers a ready-made technology neutral shared platform based on Next Generation Telematics Pattern (NGTP). WirelessCar customers benefit from flexibility to adapt to a rapidly evolving and agile industry, ensuring the greater freedom to upgrade their services, differentiate their services from their competitors, expand in new markets with standardized services and as consequence, keeping the costs down by lowering price services in the long term run.

Together with its customers and partners, WirelessCar is stepping to the explosively new phase for telematics market in China.

 BMW vehicles with ConnectedDrive services are now available in China

Connected services specialist WirelessCar supported BMW and its local service partner China Unicom to introduce ConnectedDrive services to China since September 2012. BMW’s services include emergency, breakdown, and concierge calls as well as remote door unlock, traffic information and further internet-based services. Now, the German car manufacturer provides vehicles incorporating connected services to the Chinese market – following Europe, North America and the Middle East, where BMW has already utilized WirelessCar’s capabilities.

The Chinese market offers high potential with close to 20 million cars sold in 2012. It is also a highly complex and regulated market. That is the reason why WirelessCar started early to build up specific know-how about this market with a first pilot project initiated in 2008, when, in conjunction with local partners, WirelessCar demonstrated a breakdown-call from a test vehicle in Beijing. In 2011, WirelessCar founded its own subsidiaries in Beijing and Tianjin in order to build partnerships, joint ventures and government relationships that are mandatory to operate a successful business in China. Today, it employs 21 experts in China in the fields of development, testing and service operation. For BMW in China, WirelessCar adapted its call center applications to the local market requirements and provides support and maintenance to China Unicom. China Unicom is BMW’s local telecommunication supplier, which partnered with WirelessCar in this commercial project.

WirelessCar’s solutions are provided via its Telematics Service Delivery Platform (TSDP), a comprehensive off-board platform based on the open framework Next Generation Telematics Pattern (www.ngtp.org). NGTP’s open source architecture makes it possible to link content, call centers and networks more easily to speed up time to market. WirelessCar monitors its services around the clock to guarantee market-leading service availability.

Francis Dance, BMW ConnectedDrive Senior Manager in Beijing, stated: “WirelessCar was a key partner in bringing BMW’s global ConnectedDrive service platform to China on schedule. The project required significant local market adaptation and working with multiple partners to achieve the goals. Their teamwork and support was essential to our success.”

 “China is a unique and complex market” says Martin Rosell, Managing Director WirelessCar, “and our partnerships with China Unicom and other important actors allows us to benefit from their unique expertise on this market as well as providing licenses to operate in China. Being the largest market in the world, this marks a credible step in WirelessCar’s global footprint and shows our commitment to China as the largest and fastest growing market”.

Our telematics video is now available with chinese speaker text. Please follow the link: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDAwOTA0Nzg0.html

WirelessCar launches first OEM in Brazil

 Volvo Cars becomes the first automotive manufacturer in Brazil to launch an embedded telematics program, Volvo OnCall, with WirelessCar as the Service Provider. The announcement was made at the Sao Paulo Auto Show last week.

 Volvo OnCall will be available from December 1^st and be free for the first two years. The service will include automatic crash notification, breakdown notification and remote services such as door lock/unlock. Brazil will be the 15^th country where Volvo On Call is available but the first country outside of Europe.

 The service will also address any future regulatory demands for tracking and immobilization should they come to fruition.

 WirelessCar is the only certified service provider in Brazil to offer embedded End-to-End services that includes a call center and GPRS telecommunication link and services. Possible services over and above the required tracking and immobilization include safety and security, remote services, remote diagnostics and mobile applications.

 More information can be found at www.wirelesscar.com

 Inquires can be made to:

Greg Geiselhart                                                                Marcio R. Rodrigues da Luz

Director of Sales NA                                                         Sales Manager SA                    

+1 336 393 2466                                                              +55 41 3317 8002

Greg.Geiselhart@WirelessCar.com                                  Marcio.Luz@Volvo.com

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With the recent addition of Brazil as a new market, WirelessCar reached its 50th market providing live operations to customers.  This unprecedented operational footprint is generated by customers in the automotive sector, Volvo Cars and BMW; and the commercial vehicle sector, Volvo Trucks and Volvo CE. Operations are delivered through centers in Gothenburg, Sweden; Greensboro, North Carolina; Curitiba, Brazil and are currently being established in China.

“We continue to set the bar high for ourselves by being able to offer services in areas demanded by our customers, no matter how remote”, states Martin Rosell, Managing Director of WirelessCar. “Its probably a record number of markets served by one Telematics Service Provider”

Below is a reference list that is alphabetized by region:

WirelessCar has been selected to be the Telematics Service Provider for BMW in Europe. This prestigious contract will ultimately connect all newly produced vehicles on these markets from June 2010.

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WirelessCar has together with local connectivity- and content partners demonstrated a fully working pilot service, Breakdown call (B-call), that has been developed for the Chinense market. Eight foreign and domestic OEMs have so far attended the demonstrations in Beijing.

Anders W. Ljunggren, Director of Sales China, is very pleased with the result. “It clearly shows that there is a growing interest for telematics by OEMs located on the Chinese market”

A desktop video from one of the demo sessions is also available on WirelessCar’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/wirelesscar

With the successful demonstration of a B-call pilot service, WirelessCar are now ready to adapt the rest of its current service portfolio for the Chinese market:

•E-call (Emergency call)
•B-call (Breakdown call)
•I-call (Destination input)
•Theft Notification
•SVT (Stolen Vehicle Tracking)
•Remote services  (Remote Door Unlock)
•POI update (speed cameras etc.)
•My Vehicle On-line Portal (driver personal telematics portal)
•Fleet Management
•Asset Management