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With the wealth of information available on the Internet, there is a pressing need for a standards-based platform that allows the mobile vehicle to access telematics services that leverage this information in a safe and consistent manner while minimizing driver distraction. This paper discusses a distributed architecture that enables the rapid development and deployment of such services by offloading data- and compute-intensive operations to a remote server, while executing location-sensitive and vehicle-centric services on the vehicle. These services may range from safety and diagnostics services to multi-media infotainment. It further examines how the various underlying technologies from different spheres such as location, wireless, satellite, Internet and m-Commerce are brought together to complement each other, as well as the relevant emerging standards in each area.

The car radio has been an integral part of the delivery of information and entertainment to the vehicle for more than half a century. With the advent of the Internet, the nature of the infotainment content available to the consumer has dramatically changed. This paper describes an infotainment device, similar to Motorola's iRadio™ and hereafter generically referred to as the i-radio, which leverages the familiar car radio paradigm to allow the user to safely "browse'' through a variety of Internet and traditional content using multi- modal input and output. It further discusses a robust, secure Java-based framework that enables the rapid development and deployment of distributed infotainment and safety service applications for this device.

This paper describes a robust, secure Java-based Telematics platform that enables the rapid development and deployment of distributed infotainment and safety service applications. Such a distributed architecture allows the Telematics client in the vehicle to offload data and compute-intensive operations to the server, while executing location-sensitive and vehicle-centric services onboard. Further, by careful segmentation of the client and server modules, multiple tiers of the client product can be designed and rapidly assembled, ranging from inexpensive, thin clients to costlier, self-contained ones. By basing it on Java, we harness and empower a large development community, while reaping all the benefits of Java.