OnStar opening API to mobile app developers

At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, the General Motors-owned telematics provider announced that it is selecting developers to be given access to an OnStar API for the creation of vehicle-specific and vehicle-safe apps for future OnStar-equipped vehicles.

Read more at CNET:
http://www.cnet.com/8301-33369_1-57354710/onstar-opening-api-to-mobile-app-developers/#ixzz1j0kl22e3

Filed under: Data, V2C, API, Automakers, Data

NCAR scientists work to glean weather data from cars

Scientists in Boulder are beginning to tap into a vast reservoir of weather data from an unlikely source — automobiles. Some of the data are straightforward, such as the temperature observations recorded by onboard computers in most new passenger vehicles.
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More at Daily Camera
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_19413818

Filed under: Data, Vehicle Technology, CAN, Data, Weather

Presentation: Arizona Connected Vehicle Anthem Pilot Project

View presentation at:
http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1105271777461-90/3+Arizona+Connected+Vehicle.pdf

Filed under: Data, Government, Research, Testing, V2C, V2I, Arizona, Bluetooth, Data, Testing

Cloud Connectivity Turns Cars Into Chameleons

It’s part of a collaboration between Ford, with their years of driver behavior research, and Google Prediction API, which can make useful predictions in real-time using that historical data.
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More at Wired
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/10/cloud-connectivity-turns-cars-into-chameleons/

Filed under: Telematics, V2C, V2I, V2V, Vehicle Technology, API, Cloud Computing, Data, Google, Predictive Analytics

Urban OS sensor system could soon be running entire cities

Dubbed Urban OS, the system relies on the devices placed in the urban environment to provide data and analyse events in order to keep buildings, traffic and services running smoothly.
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More at The Engineer
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/electronics/news/urban-os-sensor-system-could-soon-be-running-entire-cities/1010495.article

Filed under: Uncategorized, City As A Platform, Data, I2I, Operating System, OS, V2I

Telematics and the connected car: How to deal with increasing data use

Although data usage by smartphones is rising steeply—according to a recent Nielsen analysis, smartphone data traffic in the United States grew by 89 percent over the past year, from 230 MB per month in the first quarter of 2010 to 435 MB this year—there are still far too few connected cars to make an impact on mobile networks.
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More at Telematcs Update
http://social.telematicsupdate.com/navigation-and-lbs/telematics-and-connected-car-how-deal-increasing-data-use

Filed under: Uncategorized, Data