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April 17, 2013

WirelessCar awarded “Outstanding China Telematics Product” by China Electronic Academy

By Nathalie

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.

 
April 10, 2013

BMW and WirelessCar extend partnership in China

By Nathalie

 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”.

 
February 5, 2013

WirelessCar awarded “Best China Telematics Company”

By Nathalie

WirelessCar, one of the leading providers of telematics solutions, has been awarded as the “Best China Telematics company” for 2012 by China Telematics, one of the most important telematics magazines in China, at the IOVA Annual Conference on 24th of January 2013.

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.

 
November 29, 2012

WirelessCar provides key competence to Sprint’s Velocity Program

By Nathalie

Sprint Velocity delivers a pioneering capability for the auto industry, encompassing the development, integration and marketing of in-vehicle communications systems. Automakers can use Sprint Velocity as a complete turnkey solution or on a modular basis to suit their customized needs.

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.”

Further information

WirelessCar Press Contact

Nathalie Rey

nathalie.rey@wirelesscar.com

Tel: +33 (0)6 65 858854

 
December 16, 2011

WirelessCar in study conducted by Strategy Analytics

By WirelessCar

“WirelessCar is redefining the telematics service provider as a global supplier of cloud services” distinguishing itself by a global reach and an open platform. An analysis that could be summed-up as: “wherever you turn, WirelessCar is there!”

The report, WirelessCar Stands Out with Global Reach, Open Platform, claims that OEMs are finally investing in telematics technology for their vehicles and, while this will create new opportunities for suppliers and service providers, WirelessCar already stands out in the field.
 
“WirelessCar has established a global leading position unmatched in the telematics industry,” states the author of the report. “The company stands alone with existing or pending embedded telematics deployments in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North and South America and the Middle East.”
 
Strategy Analytics says that WirelessCar’s global scope, multiple segment solutions, multiple platform support, flexibility and proven track record are what differentiate it from its competitors.

WirelessCar is already providing successful telematics solutions to a number of OEMs, including Volvo Cars and BMW. With the development of NGTP (Next Generation Telematics Pattern), WirelessCar is well positioned for emerging connected services, such as taking advantage of new opportunities created by connected smartphones, which are expected to feature prominently in the years to come.

This ability to pre-empt upcoming trends in the industry and adapt accordingly is likely to ensure that WirelessCar continues to distinguish itself in a fast-growing industry.
 
Strategy Analytics is a global research and consulting firm, focusing on market opportunities and challenges in the areas of Automotive Electronics & Multimedia.

Press contact: Nathalie Rey, Communications Manager, phone +33 481 930 285,
e-mail nathalie.rey@wirelesscar.com.

 
December 15, 2011

Video available in Chinese

By WirelessCar

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

 
June 9, 2011

WirelessCar awarded Best Telematics Service Provider

By admin

A jury of six telematics experts from across the industry selected WirelessCar as the Best Telematics Service Provider on Tuesday, June 7th. This award was presented in Detroit at the most important telematics conference and exhibition of the year hosted by Telematics Update.

WirelessCar best TSP TU Detroit 2011

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

 
April 15, 2011

WirelessCar at TU Detroit June 8 & 9th, 2011

By martinr

We are proud to be speaking and showcase our services at the annual Telematics Detroit 2011(8th &9th  June), the biggest and most influential show for the Global telematics industry! 
  
This year’s senior-level speakers will include BMW, Chrysler, Google, Ford, WirelessCar and many more….!  
  
At this sell-out conference, delegates will get the opportunity to benefit from dedicated sessions on telematics services, open platform technology, location-based services, connected services and solutions, navigation, insurance telematics, infotainment and the latest wireless technologies. 
 
 
Like what you see? Then check out the exciting e-Brochure for further details about this ground breaking event.
 
 
November 2, 2010

WirelessCar launches first OEM in Brazil

By greg

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 1st 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 15th 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

 
September 17, 2010

WirelessCar to speak at Telematics Update Munich 2010

By admin

We are proud to be speaking at the annual Telematics Munich 2010 (3rd & 4th Nov, Munich, Germany), the biggest and most influential show for the European telematics industry! 
  
This year’s senior-level speakers will include BMW, Nokia, Fiat, Google, Ford, Volvo, Continental, Sony Ericsson, EU Commission, and many more. 
  
This leading industry event will showcase 40+ senior-level telematics speakers, 3 dedicated tracks, 20+ businesses-focused sessions and over 20+ hours of networking opportunities.
  
At this sell-out conference, delegates will get the opportunity to benefit from dedicated sessions on telematics services, open platform technology, location-based services, connected services and solutions, navigation, insurance telematics, infotainment and the latest wireless technologies. 
 
 
Like what you see? Then check out the exciting e-Brochure for further details about this ground breaking event.

Exclusive Discount: 

As sponsors we’ve secured an additional 100 Euro off all ticket prices and promotional discounts. Visit Telematics Munich 2010, Hilton Munich Park, Germany e-Brochure for further details about this ground breaking event.www.telematicsmunich.com/register and enter discount code “1748sponsor” into the discount code box to register.