3GT projectIntroductionObjective The goal of the 3GT project is to help establish OSGi<1>-based in-vehicle telematics platforms on the European mass market by ensuring interoperability between the products of different middleware providers, terminal manufacturers and service providers. This will be done by establishing common telematics interfaces for OSGi-based service delivery. Background The application of telematics concepts and solutions in an automotive environment has started a long time ago, and easily goes back more than a decade. First generations of systems relied on dedicated hardware for each implemented function (think, for instance, about the early navigation systems or tolling tags) and therefore suffered from limited functionality, high prices and limited market take-up. The second generation of telematics solutions subsequently relied on specifications that allow the combination of different kinds of functionality that is, however, still pre-defined and therefore limited (think, for instance, about GATS- or ACP-based implementations).Need The main shortcoming of second-generation telematics is that it fails to accommodate for the fact that different communication media and protocols are already being used for telematics purposes today and that many more media and especially new versions of protocols will be developed and implemented in the future. There is therefore a need for a framework that is able to support any communication medium and protocol, and that fully supports upgrading and scalability. The common approach for the introduction of OSGi-based telematics that will be developed by 3GT will achieve this, thereby enabling third generation telematics.
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