The acquisition of Motorola's automotive electronics business has added an exciting new technology to our product portfolio. Telematics is an innovative technology with an extremely bright future. 

Telematics products provide connectivity services to vehicle occupants, vehicle manufacturers and enterprise customers. Available features include hands-free telephone, safety, remote vehicle control, navigation, traffic, information sharing and entertainment services.

Continental Automotive Systems successfully worked with its customers to integrate active and passive safety technologies like Electronic Stability Control (ESC), driver assistance systems including Adaptive Cruise Control and airbags to global vehicle platforms to help prevent accidents and protect vehicle occupants should a crash occur. With the Telematics business we will enhance the active safety performance of vehicles through higher levels of collision avoidance capabilities, and also help increase the post crash safety and emergency assistance services available to vehicle occupants.

Our telematics systems help to make cars safer and provide a “wireless life-line” to emergency assistance the critical seconds after a crash occurs. The systems also provide vehicle occupants with hands-free calling and other convenience, such as navigation and concierge services. With our expertise in integrated car safety and electronics, we will be able to elevate automotive telematics to a totally new dimension by developing future vehicle safety systems.

We are the industry leader in the design, development and global manufacturing of embedded telematics and hands-free communication systems using Bluetooth wireless technology. Our telematics and hands-free systems are included in more than 12 million cars on the road today. Both the embedded telematics and hands-free communication systems are integrated solutions as part of the car architecture. The units work with a display in the vehicle to provide a seamless communications experience that keep the passengers in the car connected to their office, home, friends and family through innovative Bluetooth technology.

Safety

Research and development activities will focus on how to link telematics connectivity systems with other in-vehicle safety systems like airbags, electronic brake and safety systems, sensors, radar/lidar and cameras. We also will continue to explore how car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication systems could one day help further reduce traffic crashes road congestion and save lives.

Connectivity

Telematics also stands for dedicating resources to embedding wireless technologies into cars so vehicle occupants can, in a more convenient manner, operate and “control” their portable devices using voice recognition technology. We will continue working with its existing and potential future customers to develop next generation telematics systems that could incorporate third generation cellular (3G), -Fi, Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-H), Mesh Networks and Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) technologies.

Layout of a telematics module: 

1 Main processor
2 GPS
3 Integrated telephone
Connections:
4 GPS antenna
5 Main antenna
6 Emergency antenna
7 Bluetooth antenna