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.

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”.

IOVA is the Strategic Alliance of China Internet of Vehicles industrial technology innovation.

The annual conference dropped its curtain in Sheraton Beijing on Jan 24th 2013. On the conference, achievements of recent years for telematics industry have been reviewed, and the policies, market trends and industrial hot points have led experts from different parts of the ecosystem into discussion through presentations and panel interactions.

WirelessCar has been awarded as the “Best China Telematics Company”, which was voted by the 1029 industrial elites. WirelessCar China director Kevin Wang received this distinction on the event. This reward shows that WirelessCar’s remarkable contribution and its’ outstanding service ability have been widely recognized within the industry in China.

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, WirelessCar employs 21 experts in China in the fields of development, testing and service operation. WirelessCar offers connected services in China for customers like BMW or Audi.

“Again, WirelessCar has been recognized for its outstanding capabilities and global reach. Today’s Car OEM’s are looking for proven and global solutions that are easy to adopt in new markets and quickly help them to introduce new innovative services. The Connected Vehicle has become a true value added service offering which attract today’s car customer.” says Martin Rosell, Managing Director, WirelessCar.

With this prize, WirelessCar now steps to another stage in China. WirelessCar has achieved remarkable progress and now carries the responsibility of an industry leader in China, and as a leader, will expand and move the industry forward.

WirelessCar was selected by Sprint to be a key technology provider in the launch of their Sprint Velocity Program. As an integral part of Sprint’s ecosystem, WirelessCar helped to build and implement an end-to-end global solution targeted to the connected vehicle industry.

As a technology provider, WirelessCar delivers the backend telematics components that integrate and aggregate content, services and applications with focus on embedded, vehicle-related features, including diagnostics, and remote services, such as door lock/unlock. Core to this role is the extensive integration within Sprint Velocity’s ecosystem and that of the automotive OEMs, allowing for both synergy and differentiation for uniqueness of market offerings.

The open architecture used by Sprint is tailored after the Next Generation Telematics Pattern (NGTP) in which WirelessCar is a co-founder. This allows for Sprint Velocity to be flexible within their ecosystem and facilitates meeting an ever-changing landscape and different global requirements.

“Sprint recognized WirelessCar for its extensive knowledge and experience within the telematics space,” said Wayne Ward, vice president, Emerging Solutions, Sprint. “This coupled with their global footprint in 50+ countries supports the direction and requirements of Sprint Velocity.”

“There is a fundamental shift in the connected vehicle space with consumers expecting more and more connected functionality that changes rapidly,” said Martin Rosell, managing director of WirelessCar. “Sprint, with its deep understanding of applications and customer relationships, is a natural and complementary fit to WirelessCar as a technology provider. The Sprint Velocity solution is a new way of thought leadership in the industry.”

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Martin Rosell, Managing Director of WirelessCar received this distinction from the hands of Clear Channel’s Ryan Seacrest, well known as the host of American Idol.

For the Best Telematics Service Provider Award the judges have been looking for a combination of the following attributes:

• Innovative applications and services for consumers
• Ability to deliver compelling new content to consumers
• Successful market take up
• User-friendly interfaces
• Performance
• Market appeal and promotional work

“This reward is a recognition of the achievements of our team, today delivering 2 million messages a day in more than 50 countries and providing our extensive 12 years’ experience in connecting vehicles to the global vehicle OEM industry” said Martin Rosell.

With expertise in both commercial and consumer vehicles, WirelessCar can leverage a cross fertilized service portfolio/open platform (www.ngtp.org) and deliver innovative business models. Our customers share key resources, which means low and diminishing cost as well as rapid deployment in new markets. We integrate our services from best-of-breed elements to allow our customers to compete at leading-edge level. Through efficient sharing of resources we are able to offer the most industry competitive telematics services in the world.

WirelessCar is one of the world’s leading telematics service providers serving both the automotive and commercial vehicle sectors with services that are operational in 50 countries. This truly global service can include automatic crash notification, emergency and road side assistance, stolen vehicle tracking, embedded hands-free telephone, car locator, remote door unlock, and remote diagnostics.  Also, Online services such as e-mail access and live news feeds are available. WirelessCar is part of Volvo IT, which is a global company and a member of the Volvo Group. WirelessCar operate as an independent entity addressing all vehicle manufacturers. WirelessCar’s services are branded in the names of our customers who include BMW, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks, Volvo Construction Equipment, Mack Trucks, Toyota Material Handling, Rolls Royce, Allianz…

More information www.wirelesscar.com

 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

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