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NEWS IN THIS ISSUE
  • Upcoming Telematics Valley Events
  • Industry Events
  • New Members in Telematics Valley
  • Telematics Valley & Member's News
  • TV Lunch Seminar – March
  • Visual Telematics Navigator
  • New Industry Reports
  • Research and Publications
  • Submit Industry Reports
  • Company Information and Banners
  • Company Visits


 
UPCOMING TELEMATICS VALLEY EVENTS
Telematics Valley hosts events to provide a forum for Industry Professionals to meet, share information and learn. During lunch seminars, lunch is provided whether a Telematics Valley member or not.

May 18th, Lunch Seminar
    Time: 11:30 – 13:00
    Location: Lindholmen Science Park, InfoCenter
    Cost: Free for all - includes lunch
    Register: Click to register – Mark your calendar today!

    Topics:
    – Ding Project
    – VTI´s Library and Information Centre
    – Movimento and sponsored university courses
    – Opus and wireless emissions
June 8th, General Assembly
    Time: 11:00 - 13:00
    Location: Lindholmen Science Park, Navet
    Open only to Telematics Valley Members
June, Seminar
    Opportunities outside of automotive sector, more info to follow...
 
INDUSTRY EVENTS
  • Commercial Vehicle Telematics UK, April 27-28, NEC Birmingham. More info
  • Telematics & Home Network Road Show in Dubai, May 9&10, Dubai, UAE.
    Open PDF
  • Telematics Update Detroit, May 23-24, Michigan. More info
  • Transport Research Arena 2006, June 12-16/2006, Gothenburg, Sweden.
    More info
  • Electronix Scandinavia, September 5-7 2006, Gothenburg, Sweden. More info
  • Navigation Europe, June 19-20, London. More info
  • Telematics Europe, September 5-6, Berlin. More info
  • ITS World Congress, October 8-12, London. More info


 
NEW MEMBERS IN TELEMATICS VALLEY

Telematics Valley welcomes its newest members and looks forward to working with them in the future.

Informasic
Develops hardware and security solutions for embedded systems. InformAsic's security products work perfectly well with the communication technologies used within telematics, e.g. GPRS, radio modems and other serial communication technologies.

Sweco VBB
Provides expert and project management services to public authorities (cities, government) on strategic ITS issues, i..g. planning, design and management of ITS during demonstration and field trials as well as during the implementation phase.

Movimento
Provides products and services within vehicle diagnostics, software download, telematics and network communication. Movimento Automotive delivers world class tools, expertise and support to help the global automotive industry develop the advanced in-vehicle networks and electronic systems demanded by modern vehicles.

Opus
Opus business strategy is to develop, produce and sell products within Emission & Diagnosis, Fleet Management and Wireless Vehicle Inspection to the global market. Opus is a public company located in Göteborg, listed on Aktietorget, with 18 employees and sales through distributors in over 30 countries.

 
TELEMATICS VALLEY & MEMBER´S NEWS
Pilotfish – The Grand Award of Swedish Design 2006 to a telematics company? Read more
Carmenta – SpatialAce User Conference 2006, Sept 4&5. Read more
Affärsidéer för Galileo Masters 2006 –  Affärsidétävlingen Galileo Masters är på gång igen och belönar affärsidéer och applikationer som är lämpade för det framtida satellitsystemet Galileo. På onsdag, 26 april klockan 13:00 - 15:00... Click here
Vehco – Ny teknik ökar åkeriernas trafiksäkerhet... Open PDF
Auto Technica 2006 – April 24-25, Bryssel – Ingår i EU-projektet ”Europe Autoparts” som skall hjälpa företag att skapa nya affärskontakter i EU och dess nya medlemsstater. More info
Avtal & juridiska frågor i fordonsindustrin – April 25, Göteborg – För att öka de juridiska kunskaperna hos leverantörerna till fordonsindustrin, och underlätta olika typer av affärsbeslut, genomförs – tillsammans med MAQS Law Firm. Open PDF
 
TV'S LUNCH SEMINAR - March
Telematics Valley hosted a lunch seminar on March 23rd that is now available to view at www.telematicsvalley.org. You can select what video you would like to watch by each specific presenter:

Introduction of current events at TMV - Greg Geiselhart
Scottish Development International, Leonore Frame Key facts about the Scottish automotive sector.

Trisent – Company Presentation, Gordon Povey Innovators in new location-aware mobile phone and telematics technology.

Bitwise – Company Presentation, Micha Popovich An independent software developing company supplying embedded system software services.

InformAsic – Company Presentation, Björn Olsson InformAsic develops hardware and security solutions for embedded systems.

”SRIS” – Slippery Road Information System – Project Introduction, Pär Ekström This project will use information from cars to increase the traffic safety and support the efficiency in the road maintenance. (In Swedish).

Forska & Väx – Program Presentation, Helen Andréasson
VINNOVA inbjuder små och medelstora företag (SMF) att komma in med ansökan om ekonomiskt stöd till forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt.
 
VISUAL TELEMATICS NAVIGATOR
Telematics Valley recently added the "Visual Telematics Navigator" to its website. Essentially, this is a database offered by Telematics Valley to the industry. The intention is to provide a point of access for the telematics community to find a product, service or specific competence.

This is offered to the telematics community at no cost and gives you the opportunity to profile your company's products and competences to your telematics colleagues around the world.
All you have to do is register your company!
 
NEW INDUSTRY REPORTS
Evaluating GST using wireless off-board diagnostics
A Global System for Telematics project - Master of Science Thesis in computer science... Read more

Telematics & ITS Newsletter March 2006 by SBD
As part of SBD's on-going research into Telematics, this newsletter summarizes current issues... Read more
 
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Are you looking for a source for information? VTI in Sweden has an abundant amount of information within the transport sector that focuses in safety, economy, environment, traffic and transport analysis, behaviour and the human-vehicle-transport system interaction, as well as in road design and infrastructure maintenance. Their abstracts have good content and the full reports are very inexpensive. Mostly Swedish, however, summaries in English (free). Click here
 
SUBMIT INDUSTRY REPORTS

Are you interested in posting your knowledge?

Would you like the industry to see what you have been working on?

Post you White Papers, Presentations, Reports, Summaries, Thesis Papers at Telematics Valley's Website.

The most current information has been provided by Strategy Analytics & SBD. Their reports along with other content can be found at www.telematicsvalley.org.

 
COMPANY INFORMATION AND BANNERS
If you are a Telematics Valley member make sure that your Company Information and Banner are up-to-date. You can send the change of text or a banner (120 x 40 pixels in JPEG or GIF format) to Telematics Valley.
COMPANY VISITS
Over the course of the years, Telematics Valley has visited a vast majority member companies and those who are not members. This is very beneficial for Telematics Valley to represent the members to the best of our ability and to learn what those are doing who are not members. Please contact Greg to arrange a personal visit.
 
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