On Tuesday, Ian Cassias defended his MS thesis. Ian worked in the field of telematics and he was interested in three topics: remote diagnostics of vehicles, vehicle fleet management and traffic monitoring. My favorite part of Ian’s thesis is his work on traffic monitoring. Ian looked at how the police radar could be used to …
Category Archive: Telematics
Feb
18
Wardriving
Have you seen the 80s movie WarGames? Well, I’m old enough to have seen it in the movies. Here’s the trailer: Here’s why I ask if you’ve seen this movie. Kent Chamberlin, Erika Clifford and I were discussing ongoing and future datacasting technology evaluations by Project54 at UNH. We’re interested in using datacasting in first …
Nov
08
Powerful In-Vehicle Computing
Azentek has developed a powerful full-featured in-vehicle computer with a built in 6.5” touch-screen that replaces the traditional double DIN sized radio. Highlights include: Core Duo 1.83 GHz processor, Vista/XP, up to 2GB RAM, Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, Dolby 5.1 surround, A/V IO and noise+echo cancelling microphones for hands free calling and voice activated navigation. Additionally …
Oct
31
Vehicle Telematics: A Literature Review
Vehicle telematics is the use of computing, sensing and telecommunication technologies to provide services in an automotive environment. Vehicle telematics service categories include navigation, remote diagnostics, fleet management, safety, information access, context awareness and mobile commerce. Supporting these services requires unique hardware and software architectures. Additionally, issues such as privacy, data security and human factors …
Oct
19
GPS traffic communiation
A company called Dash has come out with a car GPS unit equipped with GPS,WiFi, and cellular communications. With these features a network is formed from all the Dash units and live traffic information is shared. In addition to live traffic data, they have database of historic traffic patterns for metropolitan areas. This sounds great. …