Telcontar predicts upsurge in the roll-out of location-based services in Europe during 2002

date: December 21, 2001

Telcontar, a supplier of software and services for real-time location-based solutions and telematics expects both in-car telematics and 3G wireless services to gain advantage from new spatial manipulation technology currently being rolled out. Wireless location applications (WLAs) that are seeing good take-up in the business-to-business sector are; real time traffic information, emergency roadside assistance, directory services, concierge services, brand finder, and routing and mapping as well as fleet management.

Towards the end of 2002 Telcontar expects to see several of these roll out as volume consumer applications. The roll-out of GPRS and 3G will provide higher bandwidth to deliver richer information such as graphics, games and maps.

Graham Page, Managing Director Europe commented, "Once the infrastructure is available, the applications are built and ready to run. Service providers are meanwhile working hard to ensure that user information is protected and high levels of security and privacy are in place."

Navigation, traffic control and theft-deterrent services with be an enormous interest for location-based services, in addition to using 3G to support on-board navigation, it would also be conceivable to monitor the movements of vehicles on which a 3G positioning system has been installed. This would make it possible to transmit the vehicle's location to a service centre, reporting any problems such as accidents, calls for help, etc. By connecting this system to the vehicle's theft-deterrent system, moreover, it would be possible to track the position of stolen vehicles.

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